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Fed Reserve construction site turns away prosecutors conducting surprise visit under U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro

April 16, 2026 | | Print Article

Prosecutors working under U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro made a surprise visit Tuesday to a Federal Reserve construction site.

The Federal Reserve has been renovating its headquarters in Washington, D.C., since 2022.

Due to what has been described as a pressure campaign from President Donald Trump, who has called the renovations “wasteful” and accused Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell of lying about it, in January, the Department of Justice subpoenaed the Reserve for info about the project.

In response, Powell and his allies, who have accused Trump of being critical of the renovation because he’s mad that the chairman won’t lower interest rates, fired back in court.

This led to Judge James Boasberg both quashing the subpoenas in March on the basis that there was “essentially zero evidence” of a crime and, most strikingly, describing the probe as a pretext to pressure Powell.

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Weeks later, Pirro, the Trump administration’s top official in D.C., decided to deploy two prosecutors and an investigator to the Federal Reserve’s renovation site for an in-person investigation.

All three were turned away by a building contractor and referred to the Federal Reserve’s attorneys, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Pirro wasn’t pleased.

“Any construction project that has cost overruns of almost 80 percent over the original construction budget deserves some serious review,” she said in a statement. “And these people are in charge of monetary policy in the United States?”

Robert Hur, an attorney for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, responded to the attempted visit by penning a letter to Pirro’s office pointing to Boasberg’s decision last month.

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“Should you wish to challenge that finding, the courts provide an avenue for you; it is not appropriate for you to try to circumvent it,” Hur wrote. “I ask that you commit not to seek to communicate with my client outside the presence of counsel.”

Sen. Thom Tillis, a supposed Republican, mocked the DOJ after Pirro’s prosecutors were kicked out of the Federal Reserve’s renovation site by portraying them as the “Three Stooges.”

Tillis has also threatened not to vote for Kevin Warsh, the president’s pick to replace Powell, until Pirro stops investigating the Fed.

Trump, for his part, continues to champion Pirro’s work in this matter.

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“We have a moron at the Fed. Who wouldn’t be lowering interest rates right now?” the president said in a Truth Social post last month. “I want to thank Jeanine Pirro and Pam and her group for having the courage to bring this suit. And I believe that the contractor on that job is probably one of the richest men in the country right now.”

“I believe that it’s not possible to spend that kind of money – $3 billion, $4 billion – nobody knows, nobody has any idea what it is. But it’s over $3 billion, and it’s probably going to be over $4 billion by the time they finish, and it may never get finished, unless I take it over. I’ll get it finished. But it can never be what it was,” he added.

The president famously visited the Fed’s construction site last summer alongside Powell, during which time the two feuded over the project’s cost and scope:

According to CBS News, the prosecutors who were sent packing from the Federal Reserve’s construction site on Tuesday are the same ones “involved in a failed bid to indict six sitting congressional Democrats who taped a video urging members of the military to reject ‘illegal orders.'”

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