Michigan assesses back taxes on Pulte family, who claimed 2 homestead exemptions

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bill-pulte-accused-fed-governor-lisa-cook-fraud-his-relatives-filed-housing-2025-09-05/

“ Close relatives of the federal official who has accused a Federal Reserve governor of improperly claiming primary residence on two properties have declared the same status on two homes in two different states, public records show.

Mark and Julie Pulte, the father and stepmother of Bill Pulte, President Donald Trump’s appointee as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, since 2020 have claimed so-called “homestead exemptions” for residences in wealthy neighborhoods in both Michigan and Florida, according to the records. The exemption is meant to give a discount to homeowners on taxes for properties they use as their primary residence.,,,(snip)

… After Reuters contacted tax officials in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, to inquire about the dual claims, Darrin Kraatz, director of assessing, on Thursday said the township “as of today” would revoke the exemption on the Pultes’ residence there…”

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1. Of course.

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2. No one does hypocrisy like GOPers. Nt

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3. Oh My!

These hypocrites are breathtaking with their audacity.
How many cabinet officials are in exactly the same situation?

Get thee to the greatest page.

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4. Thanks! I would guess, oh, maybe 95% of them?

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5. Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud

Underscoring how common the practice is, ProPublica found that at least three of Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages. We discovered the loans while examining financial disclosure forms, county real estate records and publicly available mortgage data provided by Hunterbrook Media.

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6. How dare that "rag" call them out for doing the same thing, or worse,

As what they accuse Democrats of doing.

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7. Naked vulgar partisanship

Never seen anything like this