{"id":79465,"date":"2026-10-02T18:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/doj-declines-to-reopen-investigation-into-former-fed-chair-jay-powell\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T18:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T23:54:48","slug":"doj-declines-to-reopen-investigation-into-former-fed-chair-jay-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/doj-declines-to-reopen-investigation-into-former-fed-chair-jay-powell\/","title":{"rendered":"DoJ declines to reopen investigation into former Fed chair Jay Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Warsh\u2019s predecessor had been investigated over cost overruns related to central bank renovation project<\/p>\n<p>The US \u2060justice department is not reopening a criminal investigation into former Federal Reserve chair <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/jerome-powell\">Jerome Powell<\/a> \u2060for cost overruns \u2060related \u200bto the central bank\u2019s building renovation project, a department spokesperson said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney general <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/todd-blanche\">Todd \u2060Blanche<\/a> \u2013 in comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-10-02\/doj-not-reopening-criminal-probe-into-fed-s-powell-blanche-says\">Bloomberg News<\/a>, which first reported the development \u2013 said he has not ruled out \u2060continuing to look into the project\u2019s oversight and potentially take \u200baction if evidence of \u200cwrongdoing came to \u200clight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/oct\/02\/doj-fed-chair-jerome-powell-investigation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Warsh\u2019s predecessor had been investigated over cost overruns related to central bank renovation project The US \u2060justice department is not reopening a criminal investigation into former Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell \u2060for cost overruns \u2060related \u200bto the central bank\u2019s building renovation project, a department spokesperson said on Friday. Attorney general Todd \u2060Blanche \u2013 in &#8230; <a title=\"DoJ declines to reopen investigation into former Fed chair Jay Powell\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/doj-declines-to-reopen-investigation-into-former-fed-chair-jay-powell\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about DoJ declines to reopen investigation into former Fed chair Jay Powell\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}