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华盛顿讯——总统特朗普成立一个委员会，调查针对美联储理事会成员丽莎·库克在抵押贷款文件上作出虚假陈述的指控，这是他再次试图将库克从美联储职位上解雇的最新举措。
总统签署了一份日期为周三的备忘录，宣布成立他所称的“调查委员会”，该委员会将由三名成员组成：总统经济政策助理、平等就业机会委员会主席以及政府道德办公室主任。
在完成对库克的调查后，该委员会将向特朗普提交报告，说明是否存在将她从美联储理事会免职的“正当理由”。根据这份备忘录，这个三人小组将于11月5日在白宫举行面对面听证会，“审议针对库克的证据和指控”。白宫表示，此次听证会不会公开，但会形成书面记录。
总统的备忘录显示，库克有机会向委员会提交“书面立场声明”，回应针对她的指控，也可以出席听证会。
“库克理事可就相关证据和指控提交辩论意见、书面证据以及书面证人证词，”备忘录续写道。“委员会还可就库克或其律师在听证会上作出的陈述对库克进行质询，或授权其代表——包括司法部工作人员——开展此项质询。”
库克的律师阿贝·洛厄尔和诺姆·艾森表示，她“欢迎有机会陈述事实，以证明自己的清白，并表明不存在将她解雇的法律依据”。
“鉴于总统多次表态，他早已决定解雇库克理事——无论事实和证据如何——我们严重质疑这场‘听证会’是否合法，是否符合法律规定。但如果它至少接近客观公正，结论将是库克理事并未犯下抵押贷款欺诈罪，因此不存在将她从美联储理事会免职的正当理由，”他们在一份声明中说道。“我们已与白宫接洽，评估拟议的程序是否有可能是一场真正的调查，而非仅仅是走过场。”
总统成立委员会调查针对库克的指控，似乎是特朗普为确保任何解雇她的举措都能经受住法律审查而采取的最新尝试。去年，特朗普政府高级官员比尔·普尔蒂声称，库克在加入美联储之前，在两处房产相关的抵押贷款文件上作出了虚假陈述，特朗普首次试图将库克从美联储解雇。
库克对解雇提出质疑，认为这违反了联邦法律，该法律允许总统“因正当理由”罢免美联储理事会成员。
最高法院于6月作出裁决，在库克对所谓的解雇提起法律诉讼期间，她可以继续担任现职。在一份5比4的裁决中，高等法院认定特朗普未能向库克提供法律规定她应享有的程序保护——具体而言，就是在被解雇前收到指控通知并获得回应的机会。
“这并不是说美联储理事有权与总统会面或获得完整的司法审判，”首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨在多数意见中写道。“相反，所要求的全部内容是‘向被指控官员送达针对他的指控通知’以及‘为自己辩护获得听证的机会’。”
罗伯茨继续说道：“我们看不出为何这种机会‘不能仅通过书面材料获得’，无需口头陈述。所要求的全部内容是‘在作出最终决定之前，有权以哪怕简短的辩论支持自己的主张，必要时可提供哪怕非正式的证据’。”
最高法院作出有利于库克的裁决后，特朗普再次试图解雇库克。白宫在8月份致美联储理事的一封信中告知库克，特朗普正考虑以抵押贷款欺诈指控为由将她免职，并列出了针对她的指控。白宫还为库克设定了回应的截止日期。
库克否认了这些指控，并在给白宫的回复中辩称，她“从未犯下抵押贷款欺诈罪”。库克的律师洛厄尔表示，以抵押贷款欺诈指控为由试图将她免职，“是无视事实和法律”。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-reacts-to-supreme-courts-split-rulings-on-presidential-firings/
特朗普就最高法院关于总统解雇权的分裂裁决发表回应
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Trump creates committee to probe allegations of mortgage fraud by Fed Governor Lisa Cook
October 9, 2026 / 11:39 AM EDT / CBS News
Washington — President Trump established a committee to look into allegations that Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, made false statements on mortgage documents, the latest step in his renewed effort to fire Cook from her post with the central bank.
The president signed a memorandum, dated Wednesday, creating what he said is a “committee of inquiry” that will be made up of three members: the assistant to the president for economic policy, chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and head of the Office of Government Ethics.
After conducting its investigation into Cook, the committee will report to Mr. Trump whether there is “cause” to remove her from the Fed Board. The three-member panel will hold an in-person hearing at the White House on Nov. 5 to “consider the evidence and allegations” against Cook, according to the memorandum. The hearing will not be public, but will be transcribed, the White House said.
Cook has the opportunity to submit a “written position statement” to the committee in response to the accusations against her and can appear at the proceeding, the president’s memorandum stated.
“Governor Cook may present argument, written evidence, and written witness statements regarding the evidence and allegations,” it continued. “The Committee may also question Governor Cook about any representations she or her counsel make during the hearing, or it may authorize its representatives, including Department of Justice personnel, to conduct that questioning.”
Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen, Cook’s lawyers, said she “welcomes the opportunity to present the facts so she can clear her name and demonstrate there is no legal basis to fire her.”
“In light of the President’s repeated statements that he has already decided to fire Governor Cook — regardless of the facts and evidence — we have grave doubts that this ‘hearing’ is a legitimate one that would conform to the law. But if it is anything close to objective, the conclusion will be that Governor Cook did not commit mortgage fraud, leaving no cause to remove her from the Federal Reserve Board,” they said in a statement. “We have engaged with the White House to evaluate whether the process proposed has a possibility of being a genuine one and not simply a box checking exercise.”
The president’s creation of the committee to investigate the claims against Cook appears to be the latest attempt by Mr. Trump to ensure any effort to fire her can stand up to legal scrutiny. The president first attempted to oust Cook from the Fed last year after a senior member of his administration, Bill Pulte, claimed she made false statements on mortgage documents related to two properties before she joined the central bank.
Cook challenged her removal, arguing that it violated federal law, which allows a president to remove a member of the Fed’s board “for cause.”
The Supreme Court ruled in June that Cook could continue serving in her post while her legal challenge to her purported removal continued. In a 5-4 decision, the high court found that Mr. Trump failed to provide Cook the procedural protections she was entitled to under the law — specifically notice and the opportunity to respond to the allegations before she was fired.
“That is not to say that a Federal Reserve Governor is entitled to an audience with the President or a fullblown judicial trial,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority. “Instead, all that is required is notice ‘to the officer of the charges made against him’ and ‘an opportunity to be heard in his defense.’”
Roberts continued: “We see no reason why that opportunity ‘may not be had on written materials only,’ with no oral presentation. All that is required is ‘the right to support his allegations by argument however brief, and, if need be, by proof, however informal,’ before a final decision is made.”
Mr. Trump mounted another attempt to fire Cook after the Supreme Court ruled in her favor. In a letter to the Fed governor in August, the White House informed Cook that Mr. Trump was considering removing her because of the mortgage-fraud allegations and laid out the claims against her. The White House also set a deadline for Cook to respond.
Cook denied the accusations and argued in a response to the White House that she has “never committed mortgage fraud.” Lowell, Cook’s lawyer, said that attempting to remove her on the basis of the mortgage-fraud allegations would “ignore the facts and the law.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-reacts-to-supreme-courts-split-rulings-on-presidential-firings/
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