Fed's Cook spent $1.2 million on legal services fighting firing by Trump

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has disclosed almost $1.2 million in legal services payments as her case against President Trump's firing attempt reaches the Supreme Court.

Fed's Cook spent $1.2 million on legal services fighting firing by Trump
Lisa Cook
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Federal Reserve ​Governor Lisa ​Cook, who is ‌fighting an ​effort by President Donald Trump to ‌fire her over mortgage fraud allegations she says are untrue, disclosed on Thursday almost $1.2 ‌million in legal services payments ‌as her case has made its way up to the Supreme Court.

The payments, including $696,346 ⁠to ​the ⁠State Democracy Defenders Fund and $477,951 to Contina Impact, ⁠were noted in an updated annual financial ​filing to the U.S. Office of ⁠Government Ethics.

The highest U.S. court is expected ⁠to ​rule in Cook's case, seen as pivotal to the U.S. central ⁠bank's retaining the ability to make monetary ⁠policy ⁠free of political pressures, by the end of this month.

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