WATCH: Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego Lied on VA Mortgage Application, Claimed DC as Primary Residence – Kari Lake Calls for Investigation: “Is His Main Residence in DC or Arizona? That is a Crime.”
Kari Lake is calling for accountability for her 2024 Senate opponent, Ruben Gallego, over a $940,000 VA-guaranteed loan for a DC home that he fraudulently secured in 2022 by listing the address as his primary residence.
Kari Lake faced Gallego in the 2024 general election for Arizona’s US Senate seat but lost under mysterious circumstances. Lake also said in a recent interview with The Gateway Pundit, “When we start to dig further into the election fraud that’s been happening for a long time in Arizona, I think there’s gonna be some hell to pay.”
Despite being a Congressman from Arizona at the time, he listed his Washington, DC home and his Phoenix, Arizona Home as primary residences to secure a more favorable interest rate. Gallego abused the Department of Veterans Affairs home loan program, which is designed to make it easier for veterans to buy a home with a lower down payment and a lower interest rate, for use as a primary residence. The loan can only be used for a second home if the home is occupied as a primary residence.
As Politico reported in 2023,
When Arizona Senate candidate Ruben Gallego bought a house near Capitol Hill last year, he claimed the Washington property as his primary residence as part of a special mortgage rate afforded to military veterans.
But Gallego and his wife also say a home they own in Phoenix is their primary residence.
The loan documents for the Washington property, obtained by POLITICO, confirmed he counts D.C. as his primary home even though his campaign maintains he resides in Arizona. Politically, it means the Democratic congressman aiming to take out Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) in a hotly contested race next year may have to explain why he declared he was primarily a resident of the nation’s capital.
Gallego signed terms for a Veterans Affairs-backed loan in which he agreed to “occupy, establish, and use the Property as [the] Borrower’s principal residence within 60 days,” according to the loan document.
In September 2024, Lake highlighted this scandal, while condemning Gallego's horrendous record, including his involvement in opening a bank for illegal aliens that defaulted and robbed its clients, working for a company that settled for $2.8 million in a medicare fraud investigation, and walking out on his wife when she was nine months pregnant to shack up with a DC lobbyist with whom he had a secret wedding.
Notably, his marriage license with wife Sydney Gallego is also from Washington, DC.
"I actually live in this state. And on federal forms, he said he lives in Washington, DC; that's his main residence," Lake said.
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Now, as Letitia James, Adam Schiff, and other corrupt Democrats face investigations and charges for mortgage fraud, Gallego's lies are also coming under scrutiny.
Kari Lake explained during a recent interview with Real America's Voice host Eric Bolling how Gallego robbed another family of "that ability for another veteran or military member to get that money because there's only so much money in the program."
"I think he needs to fess up and explain. Where does he really live? Is his main residence in DC, or is it in Arizona?" Lake continued. "And if he lied about that, that is a crime. And I think he should be investigated."
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Bolling: Has now done something that Adam Schiff has done and that we believe Leticia James has done, use the tax code to their advantage, lied about their primary residence and got some sort of sweetheart loan and agreement deals illegally, right?
Lake: I remember covering this, you know, I ran against this guy in the Senate race, and, you know, the media just ignored the story. When he applied for his application for a mortgage in Arizona, he said Arizona was his main residence. When he applied for one in DC, he said DC is his main residence. Now, there's a couple of problems there.
If DC is your main residence and you're lying on a federal form, then you really cannot serve the people of Arizona. You have to be a resident of the state of Arizona to be a representative, which is what he was at the time. But furthermore, it was a special VA loan that was designed to help people who are part of the military afford to buy their first home, and he used that, according to documents, to buy a nearly million-dollar home in the DC area and said it was his main residence.
It had to be your main residence to get that sweet deal on the mortgage, and when he did that, he basically took away— I think it was over $900,000 is what the loan was— that ability for another veteran or military member to get that money because there's only so much money in the program. And he took it away from others who deserved it.
So, I think he needs to fess up and explain. Where does he really live? Is his main residence in DC, or is it in Arizona? And if he lied about that, that is a crime, and I think he should be investigated.
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