Anti-DEI measures cited to justify laying off 62 Fannie Mae employees last month may have been a foil for firing ethics investigators looking into whether director Bill Pulte improperly obtained mortgage records for New York Attorney General Letitia James and other targets of President Trump, according to a new report.

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Fannie Mae’s ethics and investigations group was acting on complaints lodged via a staffer tip line that enables whistleblowers to report potential internal misconduct. In this case, staffers had claimed higher-ups had improperly instructed people to access mortgage documents of James and other Democratic officials, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Investigators were looking into who ordered the document search, whether Pulte was within his rights

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