{"id":6819,"date":"2026-10-03T07:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/10\/03\/doj-affirms-closure-of-criminal-probe-into-former-fed-chair-powell-amid-renovation-cost-controversy\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T07:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T07:24:26","slug":"doj-affirms-closure-of-criminal-probe-into-former-fed-chair-powell-amid-renovation-cost-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/10\/03\/doj-affirms-closure-of-criminal-probe-into-former-fed-chair-powell-amid-renovation-cost-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Affirms Closure of Criminal Probe into Former Fed Chair Powell Amid Renovation Cost Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Justice confirmed it will not reopen its criminal investigation into former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell regarding the central bank’s over-budget headquarters renovation. Although a Fed inspector general’s report highlighted significant oversight failures, it found no basis for a criminal referral. The decision has drawn criticism from former President Donald Trump, who argues Powell should resign from the Fed’s Board of Governors.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Justice confirmed it will not reopen its criminal investigation into former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell regarding the central bank’s over-budget headquarters renovation. Although a Fed inspector general’s report highlighted significant oversight failures, it found no basis for a criminal referral. The decision has drawn criticism from former President Donald Trump, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108284897-1707886400262-gettyimages-2150937107-Mel_Musto_Bloomberg_20260330.jpeg?v=1707886445&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","rifnote_country-u-s","rifnote_executive-donald-trump","rifnote_executive-jerome-powell","rifnote_executive-kevin-warsh","rifnote_executive-todd-blanche"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108284897-1707886400262-gettyimages-2150937107-Mel_Musto_Bloomberg_20260330.jpeg?v=1707886445&w=1920&h=1080","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}