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California’s political enemy head, Senator Adam Chef, has been referred to the Ministry of Justice, to confront criminal prosecution due to the alleged fraud on the mortgage, which is said to extend for years.
Chef, who was elected to the Senate in the 2024 electoral session for decades as a legislator in the House of Representatives, is subject to scrutiny after the US Federal Finance Agency (FHFA) sent a letter to the Ministry of Justice in May, which affects “multiple counterparts”, about Mary, “.
FHFA is an independent federal agency that oversees the Fra and Faridy Mac and Federal Loan Loan Channel.
This week, Trump has publicly criticized a chef about the alleged fraud on the mortgage, while investigations into the financial crimes of May May concluded Monday in a letter to FHFA, which claimed that Chef participated in a “continuous pattern of possible occupancy” in five Fannie Mae loans.
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President Donald Trump 2024 highlighted allegations of mortgage fraud against Senator Adam Chef, claiming that Chef has denied. (Getty Images)
“I always thought that my chef Adam Chef was a fraud artist,” Trump also published on Tuesday. “And now I learned that the Financial Crime Department in Fanny has concluded that Adam Chef has participated in a continuous pattern of fraud in the mortgage.”
Adam Chef said that his main residence in Maryland is to obtain a cheaper real estate mortgage and according to America, when he should have lived in California because he was a member of congress from California. I always knew that Adam Chef was fraud.
Potomac, Maryland, a suburb in Washington, DC, is more than 10 miles from the country’s capital across the border of Maryland.
The Federal Housing Officer provided Chef’s criminal referral to the mortgage documents
Trump and Chef have always been a political opponent, which was emphasized during Trump’s first administration when Chef worked as a major director of the House

Adam Chef has served as the main director of the parliament during the first dismissal trial against Trump in 2020. (Drew Angeler/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital took a look at the schedule of a chef house in Maryland, and when the public was first aware of the first time in 2023, the allegations that a chef claimed more than 3000 square feet in the outskirts of Washington as its main headquarters, while it was taking a tax disability for the owner of the house on a small residence in its case in California.
Trump accuses the “fraud artist” is a chef of lying about Maryland, his homeland, to make a mortgage fraud.
Table:
- 2003: Then Konksan Chef and his wife buy a house in Botomac, Maryland, for $ 870,000, and they sign a mortgage agreement supported by Fannie for $ 610,000 at a rate of 5.625 % over the course of 30 years. The mortgage confirms that the property was its primary and wonderful residence, according to FHFA to the Ministry of Justice (Doj).
- 2009: Chef purchased Purbank, California, Buildings, CNN later in 2023. Chef was a deputy in the House of Representatives at the time, and represents the twenty -ninth region of the state in southern California outside Los Angeles.
- 2009; 2011; 2012; 2013: Chef again emphasizes Botomac, Maryland, his homeland as a major residency in re -financing of mortgage in those years, according to FHFA’s message to the Ministry of Justice.
- 2017: According to the California Property Chef pays with a check that shows its title in Maryland, CNN said in 2023.
- 2020: Chef prepares his mortgage and recounts his home in Maryland as his secondary stay.
- June 2022: Chef publishes a picture of himself in front of his home in Maryland, wearing a poster “I voted” on the Democratic Day in Los Angeles for the municipal race. He commented the image on X: “California! Los Angeles! Voters vote!” Chef’s spokesperson for CNN in 2023 explained that he voted by mail that year and was in Washington to obtain votes.
- January 2023: Chef announces a race in the Senate after Democratic Senator Diane Vincent in California announced at the time that she would not nominate him to re -election.
- November 2023: CNN publishes a first news article that shows in detail that Chef has claimed Maryland’s home as a key seat while he was also getting a tax exemption for the owner of the house in Burbank, California, the apartment. The perpetrator stated that real estate legal experts found that Chef “is likely not to be in any legal danger” on this, but the issue may hinder his efforts in the elections with the California voters.
- November 2023: Chef’s Chef’s campaign responds to the mortgage demands, saying: “Adam’s basic residence is Borbank, California, and it will remain so when he won the Senate seat. While Adam discussed several times over the years, including in his best -selling book in the New York newspaper, he and his (wife) made a difficult decision to transfer his family to the Director General to spend more time with his children while he was With his children. ” The campaign added that a chef property was listed as basic housing “for the purposes of the loan because both of them are busy throughout the year and distinguish them from the leave property.”
- 2024: Chef wins the Senate elections and Trump wins the presidential elections.
- May 2025: William Polly, director of FHFA criminal referral to Chef Real Estate loans and the residence of Public Prosecutor Bam Bondi and Deputy Prosecutor Todd Blanche.
- July 14, 2025: PULTE receives a memorandum of Fanny May’s Financial Investigations in Fanny May, and concluded that a chef is participating in a “continuous pattern of possible distortion of occupancy” on five Loan Fanny Loans, Fox News learned.
- July 15, 2025: Trump explodes a chef on the social truth on the mortgage demands, describing the Senator as a “fraud artist”.
- July 15, 2025: Chef responds to Trump’s message to X, saying: “This is just an attempt by Donald Trump’s latest political revenge against his perceived enemies. So it is not a surprise, only how weak this wrong claim is.

President Donald Trump speaks during lunch with African leaders in the White House dining room, July 9, 2025. (AP Photo/EVAN VUCCI)
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The investigation of mortgages and homes in Chef follow a similar investigation of the real estate mortgage earlier in 2025, focusing on the New York Prosecutor Leitia James, a long political enemy of Trump. FHFA has sent a criminal referral to the Ministry of Justice in April, and it appears that the public prosecutor has forged real estate mortgage records for more favorable loans.
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At the heart of this case, there is Norfolk, Virginia, a house purchased in 2023, which I identified on mortgage documents and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac as a hatred that would serve as its basic residence, according to the FHFA message from April. James is legally required for Live in New York Employed state official in Empire.
Fox News Digital has communicated to Chef’s office for an additional comment on the matter, but it did not receive a response immediately.
Daniel Wallace from Fox News Digitter and Michael Durgan contributed to this report.
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2025-07-17 14:58:00