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Bill Pulte seems to favor colorful characters
Last year, as Reuters exclusively reported in November, Pulte brought on Michigan restaurant owner Mark Zarkin as a consultant to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Zarkin, a prominent Detroit-area Trump backer with no real experience in the mortgage sector, was convicted in 2000 of a felony sex crime involving a sexual encounter with a “mentally incapacitated” woman. He served time in jail and was listed on Michigan’s sex offender registry for about nine years, according to a 2019 investigation by the Detroit Free Press.For unknown reasons, a judge later overturned his conviction in an “unusual” and “rare” case, as the Free Press put it.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-...b087bc4f0b3433Right around the time Pulte brought on Zarkin, he also hired Aaron Kofsky, who four months earlier was fired from his job as a financial policy adviser with then-Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio).
Kofsky was the subject of an October 2024 WIRED story that revealed he’d been posting on Reddit under a pseudonym for nearly a decade about his use of cocaine, heroin, Ritalin, MDMA and other drugs. One of his posts mocked Vance as “a Trump book licker.” Another gave advice on how to transport drugs through TSA checkpoints at airports.
