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.
Hellbound and Down 