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华盛顿——美国检察官珍妮·皮罗宣布，联邦检察官将终止对美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔的刑事调查，这为凯文·瓦尔什的提名确认扫清了关键障碍。瓦尔什是特朗普总统提名的美联储理事会主席人选。
皮罗在X平台上发文称，相关调查将转由美联储监察长负责调查该央行华盛顿总部翻新工程中可能存在的成本超支问题。
“据此，我已指示本办公室终止调查，由监察长开展此项问询，”她写道。“但请注意，如果事实证明有必要，我将毫不犹豫地重启刑事调查。”
皮罗表示，她预计监察长办公室将就调查结果提交一份“全面报告”，并称她“相信这一结果将有助于一劳永逸地解决促使本办公室发出传票的相关疑问”。
鲍威尔的美联储理事会主席任期将于5月结束，总统已提名瓦尔什接任。但瓦尔什的美联储任职之路面临关键阻碍：北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯曾表示，在联邦调查终止前，他不会投票确认任何相关提名。
瓦尔什周二在参议院银行委员会作证时承诺，美联储将在货币政策决策上保持“严格独立”。
美联储监察长是迈克尔·霍罗威茨，他曾在司法部担任该职务，并审查过联邦调查局2016年大选调查以及特朗普竞选团队与俄罗斯所谓关联的起源问题。
美国广播公司（ABC）新闻周五率先报道称，美国司法部将终止对鲍威尔的调查。美联储拒绝置评。白宫表示，相信参议院将确认瓦尔什出任下一届美联储主席。
“美国纳税人有权了解美联储的财政管理失当问题，监察长办公室拥有更强大的职权，最适合查清此事的来龙去脉，”白宫发言人库什·德赛在一份声明中说道。
此次宣布调查终止的几天前，皮罗办公室的检察官曾突然造访美联储总部，试图进入正在进行翻新工程的大楼。这两名检察官和一名来自华盛顿特区美国检察官办公室的调查人员被拒绝入内，并拿到了美联储法律团队的联系方式。
对鲍威尔的调查于1月公开曝光，当时鲍威尔在一段视频中透露，美联储已收到大陪审团传票，作为正在进行的刑事调查的一部分。这些传票威胁要就鲍威尔2025年6月在银行委员会作证时涉及的美联储办公室翻新多年项目的内容提起诉讼。
但今年3月，华盛顿特区美国联邦地区法院首席法官詹姆斯·博阿斯伯格驳回了这两份传票，称其是施压鲍威尔投票支持降息或辞职的借口。
美国司法部曾请求法官重新考虑这一裁决，但法官本月早些时候驳回了该请求。
皮罗终止调查的举动似乎是180度大转弯。周三在新闻发布会上，她曾告诉记者“调查仍在继续”。
“我身处法律范畴，其他人则属于政治范畴。我不会越界，”皮罗说道，并补充称她“将继续推进。我们正在就博阿斯伯格法官的裁决提起上诉”。
然而，美国司法部并未向华盛顿联邦上诉法院申请复审这位地区法官的裁决。
对鲍威尔的调查正值特朗普频繁对其不满之际——特朗普不满鲍威尔拒绝快速降息。总统经常辱骂美联储主席，称他是“笨蛋”、“办事太晚”。特朗普本月早些时候还威胁要解雇鲍威尔。
特朗普2018年在首届任期内提名鲍威尔出任美联储主席，拜登前总统任命他连任四年。尽管他的主席任期即将结束，但他仍可担任美联储理事会成员至2028年初。不过，大多数美联储主席在任期结束后都会辞去理事会职务。
总统对鲍威尔的不满源于其利率决策，并将美联储的翻新项目作为攻击这位主席的切入点。去年特朗普暗示重建工程可能成为解雇鲍威尔的理由后，两人曾头戴安全帽参观美联储总部，视察翻新工程，当时两人在建筑总成本上存在分歧。
美联储自筹资金，不依赖纳税人资金。
该央行总部的翻新工程于2017年首次获批，预计明年完工。这项涵盖两栋建筑的项目预估成本已从19亿美元升至近25亿美元。美联储表示，成本上涨源于与审查机构磋商后对原始建筑设计的修改、材料、设备和劳动力成本上升，以及土壤污染和超出最初预期的石棉等意外情况。
美联储监察长已两次对翻新工程开展审计，鲍威尔去年曾告诉参议院，他已要求内部监察机构“重新审视该项目”。
Justice Department drops probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell
2026-04-24T10:21:00-0400 / CBS News
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Jake Rosen is a reporter covering the Department of Justice. He was previously a campaign digital reporter covering President Trump’s 2024 campaign and also served as an associate producer for “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
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Updated on: April 24, 2026 / 11:11 AM EDT / CBS News
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Washington — Federal prosecutors are ending their criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced, clearing a key obstacle for the confirmation of Kevin Warsh, President Trump’s pick to take over as head of the central bank’s Board of Governors.
Pirro wrote on X that the Fed’s inspector general has instead been asked to look into potential cost overruns in the central bank’s renovation of its Washington, D.C., headquarters.
“Accordingly, I have directed my office to close our investigation as the IG undertakes this inquiry,” she wrote. “Note well, however, that I will not hesitate to restart a criminal investigation should the facts warrant doing so.”
Pirro said that she expects the inspector general’s office to provide her with a “comprehensive report” on its findings and said she is “confident the outcome will assist in resolving, once and for all, the questions that led this office to issue subpoenas.”
Powell’s tenure as chairman of the central bank’s Board of Governors is set to end in May, and the president nominated Warsh to succeed him. But Warsh’s path to the Fed faced a key hurdle, as Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina said he would not vote to confirm any nominee until the Fed investigation was dropped.
Warsh testified before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday and pledged that the central bank would remain “strictly independent” in its monetary policy decisions.
The Fed’s inspector general is Michael Horowitz, who served in the role at the Justice Department and reviewed the origins of the FBI’s investigation into the 2016 election and alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
ABC News first reported Friday that the Justice Department was set to drop the Powell probe. The Fed declined to comment. The White House said it is confident that the Senate will confirm Warsh as the Fed’s next chairman.
“American taxpayers deserve answers about the Federal Reserve’s fiscal mismanagement, and the Office of the Inspector General’s more powerful authorities best position it to get to the bottom of the matter,” Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, said in a statement.
The announcement comes days after prosecutors from Pirro’s office made an unannounced visit to the Fed’s headquarters and attempted to gain access to the building’s ongoing renovations. The two prosecutors and an investigator from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. were denied entry and given contact information for the Fed’s legal team.
The investigation into Powell burst into public view in January when the chairman revealed in a video that the Fed had received grand-jury subpoenas as part of an ongoing criminal investigation. The subpoenas threatened an indictment related to Powell’s testimony before the Banking Committee in June 2025 about the years-long project to renovate the Fed’s offices.
But in March, Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia quashed the pair of subpoenas, saying they were a pretext to pressure Powell into voting to lower interest rates or resigning.
The Justice Department asked the judge to reconsider his decision, but he denied that request earlier this month.
Pirro’s move to end the probe appears to be an abrupt about-face. At a press conference Wednesday, she told reporters “this investigation continues.”
“I am in the legal lane, there are others that are in the political lane. I don’t intersect those two lanes,” Pirro said, adding she is “going forward. We are appealing the decision of Judge Boasberg.”
The Justice Department, however, did not ask the federal appeals court in Washington to review the district judge’s ruling.
The probe involving Powell came amid Mr. Trump’s frequent airing of frustrations with him for declining to rapidly slash interest rates. The president often hurls insults at the central bank’s chair, calling him “a jerk” and “too late.” Mr. Trump threatened to fire Powell earlier this month.
Mr. Trump tapped Powell for Fed chairman in 2018, during his first term, and he was appointed to a second four-year term by former President Joe Biden. While his term as chair is winding down, he can remain a governor or the Fed’s Board until early 2028. Most Fed chairs, however, have resigned from the board after their tenures as chair end.
The president has soured on Powell over his decisions regarding interest rates, and he zeroed in on the Fed’s renovation project as a line of attack against the chairman. After Mr. Trump suggested last year that the rebuilding could be grounds to fire him, the two men donned hardhats and visited the Fed’s headquarters to survey the renovation project, where they were at odds over the total cost of the construction.
The Fed is self-funded and not reliant on taxpayer dollars.
The renovations of the central bank’s headquarters were first approved in 2017 and are set to be completed next year. The estimated cost of the project — which encompasses two buildings — has risen from $1.9 billion to nearly $2.5 billion. The Fed said the cost increases are a result of changes to the original building designs after consultations with review agencies; a rise in the cost of material, equipment and labor; and unforeseen conditions like contamination in the soil and more asbestos than was initially expected.
The inspector general at the central bank has twice conducted audits regarding renovation projects, and Powell told the Senate last year that he asked the internal watchdog to “take a fresh look at the project.”