Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is under fire over home-loan filings that look strikingly similar to the discrepancies that President Donald Trump’s administration has been using to try to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.

Bloomberg reported that Bessent signed agreements designating two homes—one in Bedford Hills, New York, and another in Provincetown, Massachusetts—as his “principal residence” on the same day in 2007. Mortgage experts told the outlet that conflicts like these are pretty standard and don’t necessarily amount to fraud.

That’s almost identical to Cook’s case. In 2021, she signed mortgage agreements for a house in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a condo in Atlanta, Georgia, claiming both as her main residence.

But unlike Bessent, Cook was immediately vilified. Federal Ho

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