By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s allies have pressed to charge Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and two other prominent political foes with a crime that the federal government rarely prosecutes, a Reuters review of eight years of court records shows.

The Justice Department opened investigations into Cook and the others for allegedly misstating their primary residences on mortgage applications, which the U.S. has criminally charged only 20 times in the past eight years, according to the Reuters review of more than 600 cases involving false statements to lending institutions since 2017.

Of those 20 cases, only one was a standalone criminal charge for misstatements on a mortgage application. All others were part of broader indictments involving large crimin

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