In an attempt to get a lower mortgage rate on a vacation home in Longboat Key, Florida, one controversial elected prosecutor in a major U.S. city drafted a letter to United Wholesale Mortgage. At closing, the prosecutor signed the application for the $428,400 mortgage and attested to the accuracy of her answers in the application.   

The problem?  

She had not lived in Florida as she had claimed. She failed to disclose all her liabilities. She failed to disclose that she was delinquent in paying her federal taxes and that the IRS had a $45,022 tax lien against her. And the gift letter she provided to the mortgage company was also false.  

Five months earlier, in an attempt to purchase a rental property in Kissimmee, Florida, the same prosecutor signed an application for a $490,500 mortgage from Cardinal Financial Co. According to the government, the prosecutor made knowingly false statements by not including all of her liabilities in the application, not disclosing the IRS lien or the fact that she was delinquent in paying federal taxes. She also did not disclose that she intended to use it as a rental property, having signed a rental agreement with a management company the week before she signed her closing documents for the loan.

The prosecutor claimed that the charges against her were politically motivated and a witch hunt by her political adversaries.   

The Biden Justice Department indicted her for the two alleged instances of mortgage fraud described above, along with other charges, including two counts of perjury. 

The jury acquitted her on the charge related to the Kissimmee house, but

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