The Government Accountability Office, an independent and nonpartisan investigative watchdog for Congress, says it has opened an investigation into Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte.

In November, top Senate Democrats wrote to ask the agency to "promptly investigate recent actions undertaken at the Federal Housing Finance Agency" by Pulte.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency offices at the Constitution Center in Washington, D.C.

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Specifically, it highlighted actions related to "recent referrals of New York Attorney General Letitia James, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and Congressman Eric Swalwell to the U.S. Department of Justice for mortgage fraud."

All the officials Pulte has referred to the Justice Departmen

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