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Fed's Cook spent $1.2 million on legal services fighting firing by Trump

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FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook walks outside the U.S. Supreme Court, as Supreme Court justices consider U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to fire her, in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 21, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook walks outside the U.S. Supreme Court, as Supreme Court justices consider U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to fire her, in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 21, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo Nathan Howard Reuters

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who is fighting an effort by President Donald Trump to fire her over mortgage fraud allegations she says are untrue, disclosed on Thursday almost $1.2 million in legal services payments as her case has made its way up to the Supreme Court.

The payments, including $696,346 to the State Democracy Defenders Fund and $477,951 to Contina Impact, were noted in an updated annual financial filing to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

The highest U.S. court is expected to rule in Cook's case, seen as pivotal to the U.S. central bank's retaining the ability to make monetary policy free of political pressures, by the end of this month.

(Reporting by Ann SaphirEditing by Bill Berkrot)

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This story was originally published June 18, 2026 at 10:57 AM.

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