Fannie Mae fired ethics staff investigating Pulte's access to Letitia James's mortgage records
On October 30, 2025, Fannie Mae fired Chief Ethics Officer Suzanne Libby and about a dozen other ethics and internal-investigations staff, days after General Counsel Danielle McCoy was forced to resign, while that unit was investigating whether Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte's team had improperly obtained New York Attorney General Letitia James's confidential mortgage records. Senior Fannie Mae executives who separately raised alarms that a Pulte ally had shared confidential mortgage-pricing data with rival Freddie Mac were forced out around the same time. Pulte publicly attributed the firings to a standard business layoff targeting diversity-equity-and-inclusion roles; Wall Street Journal reporting in late October 2025, corroborated independently by Associated Press reporting in November 2025, revealed both firings were retaliatory.