Overview
- The FHFA Office of Inspector General website lists the inspector general position as vacant after reports that acting IG Joe Allen was removed, and the agency has not clarified the timing or whether he remains chief counsel.
- Reports say Allen was notified of his termination by the White House and was preparing to alert Congress that the FHFA was not cooperating with his office.
- Additional reporting says Allen sought to share information with Eastern District of Virginia prosecutors, and a related filing in the Letitia James case later resisted providing selective‑prosecution discovery.
- The vacancy follows Director Bill Pulte’s high-profile mortgage‑fraud referrals that bypassed standard inspector‑general channels, including referrals involving Letitia James and Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, which Democrats have criticized as politicized.
- The episode aligns with a broader pattern in which the Trump administration has removed or reassigned many inspectors general and reduced support for the federal IG oversight council.