国家最高住房监管机构采取了“前所未有”的措施阻碍其监察长的调查，该监察长周一在提交给国会的报告中向议员们表示。
The nation’s top housing regulator took “unprecedented” steps to hinder investigations by its inspector general, the watchdog told lawmakers in a report published Monday.
这些指控载于监察长办公室提交给国会的半年度报告中，是联邦住房金融管理局局长比尔·普尔特与其国会授权的监督机构之间争斗的最新升级。普尔特9月在社交媒体上宣布，将削减监察长办公室预算60%以上。
The accusations – delivered in the Office of Inspector General’s semiannual report to Congress – are the latest escalation in a feud between Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte and his congressionally mandated overseers. Pulte announced on social media in September that he would be slashing the OIG budget by more than 60%.
联邦住房金融管理局监管房利美和房地美，这两家政府拥有的抵押贷款公司拥有7.8万亿美元资产，支撑着抵押贷款市场。其监察长负责监管可能对其投资组合构成风险的抵押贷款欺诈。该办公室还负责调查机构领导层潜在的不当行为。
The FHFA regulates Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-owned mortgage companies with $7.8 trillion in assets underpinning the mortgage market. Its inspector general is charged with policing mortgage fraud that could pose risk to their portfolios. It is also the office charged with investigating potential improprieties by agency leadership.
根据报告，截至9月30日的六个月内，“由于联邦住房金融管理局拒绝在要求时提供企业记录和信息，监察长办公室评估办公室无法发布三份报告”。房利美和房地美有时被称为政府资助企业。
“OIG’s Office of Evaluations was unable to publish three reports” over the six months ending Sept. 30 “due to FHFA’s refusal to provide enterprise records and information when requested,” according to the report. Fannie and Freddie are sometimes called government-sponsored enterprises.
但联邦住房金融管理局发言人乔纳森·科普奇表示，该机构已“根据其法定权力，提供了监察长要求的每一份文件，并配合了每一次访谈”。
But FHFA spokesman Jonathan Coppage said that the agency had “delivered every document and engaged in every interview the IG has requested under its statutory authorities.”
早些时候：瑞穗证券称随着利率上升，房利美和房地美私有化前景黯淡。“联邦住房金融管理局已迅速提供了数百页文件，并就其对房利美和房地美多户住宅业务的监管，配合了监察长要求的数小时访谈，”科普奇补充道。“例如，仅针对最近的三项审查，我们就完成了56份文件请求和16次单独的长达一小时的会议。”在普尔特于9月30日宣布大幅削减预算几小时后，代理首席副监察长詹姆斯·霍奇在一封致议员的不同寻常的信中表示，该办公室将被迫削减多达80%的员工，并终止大多数刑事调查。
Earlier: Fannie-Freddie Privatization Dims as Rates Rise, Mizuho Says“FHFA has readily produced the hundreds of pages of documents and engaged in hours of interviews that the OIG requested regarding FHFA’s oversight of Fannie and Freddie multifamily business,” Coppage added. “For example, for just three recent reviews we completed 56 document requests and 16 separate hour-long meetings.”In an unusual letter to lawmakers hours after Pulte announced the sweeping budget cuts on Sept. 30, Acting Principal Deputy Inspector General James Hodge said the office would be forced to cut up to 80% of its staff and end most criminal inquiries.
报告得出结论称，该决定将产生“毁灭性后果”。“前所未有且突然的削减将使 OIG 今后无法对 FHFA 进行有意义的监督。”
That decision will have “devastating consequences,” the new report concludes. “The unprecedented and abrupt cuts will prevent OIG from conducting meaningful oversight of FHFA going forward.”
科普奇指出，该监察长办公室请求的预算远大于其他监察长办公室的预算。“独立并不意味着免除财政问责，”他说。“FHFA 仍愿意与 OIG 合作，提供其有效编制预算并履行合理财政管理职责所需的支持，以履行其法定职责，这在每个联邦机构中均属惯例。”霍奇坚持认为，住房监管监察长办公室与其他机构的类似办公室不同，因为 FHFA 监管的实体在其运营中存在“对美国金融系统的巨大风险”。
Coppage pointed out that the inspector general had requested a budget much larger than those of other inspectors general. “Independence does not mean exemption from fiscal accountability,” he said. “FHFA remains willing to work with OIG to offer what support it needs to effectively budget and exercise reasonable financial stewardship in carrying out its statutory responsibilities, as is customary in every federal agency.”Hodge has maintained that the housing regulator watchdog is different from similar offices at other agencies because of the “enormous risks to the US financial system inherent in the operations” of the entities FHFA regulates.
根据报告，机构领导层还“彻底摧毁”了监察长调查和威慑抵押贷款及银行欺诈的能力。过去六个月，OIG 的调查追回了 2900 万美元，并导致 46 起起诉。
Agency leadership has also “eviscerated” the inspector general’s ability to investigate and deter mortgage and bank fraud, according to the report. OIG investigations over the past six months recovered $29 million and resulted in 46 indictments.
路透社早些时候报道了这份 OIG 报告，该报告于周五提交给了立法者。
Reuters earlier reported the OIG report, which was delivered to lawmakers Friday.