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据哥伦比亚广播公司新闻了解，美联储正秘密展开行动，试图阻止司法部向主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔（Jerome Powell）发出传票。
今年1月，鲍威尔透露，美联储已收到司法部的大陪审团传票，这是对他正在进行的刑事调查的一部分。
鲍威尔表示，传票威胁要对他2025年6月在参议院银行委员会作证期间的相关内容提起刑事起诉。这位主席因拒绝迅速削减利率而招致特朗普总统的不满，他称调查集中在他对美联储办公楼多年翻新项目的评论上。
截至目前，调查尚未导致任何刑事指控。
据一位熟悉相关行动的消息人士透露，在密封的法庭诉讼程序中，美联储正在质疑传票的合法性，并请求联邦法官撤销这些传票。目前尚不清楚美联储的具体法律论点是什么，由于大陪审团程序相关的保密规定，这场质疑行动是秘密进行的。
《华尔街日报》率先报道了美联储试图撤销传票的举动。
这个独立资助的翻新项目以及鲍威尔的证词去年受到了特朗普政府的审查，管理和预算办公室主任罗素·沃茨（Russell Vought）指责鲍威尔领导了一个”铺张浪费”的办公楼翻新项目，可能”违反法律”。翻修工程面临超支问题。
在他向参议院作证时，鲍威尔称一些关于翻新项目的描述过于奢华是”误导性和不准确的”。他告诉议员们，除了必要更换破损旧大理石外，没有使用新的大理石，也没有”专用电梯”、新的水景或屋顶花园。
对翻修的质疑以及传票的发出，是在美联储与特朗普先生长达一个月的冲突之后发生的。总统敦促央行迅速降低利率以促进经济增长并降低借贷成本，但美联储采取了更为谨慎的态度，担心引发通胀飙升。与此同时，总统称鲍威尔是”白痴”、”顽固的骡子”、”特朗普的敌人”和”太迟先生”。
鲍威尔的美联储主席任期将于5月结束。他有资格继续留任美联储董事会直到2028年，在那里他可以继续参与货币政策制定，但他尚未表明是否会留任。
鲍威尔上月辩称，刑事调查是对美联储施压的借口，旨在挑战其独立制定货币政策的能力。
主席表示：”刑事指控的威胁是美联储根据我们对公众利益的最佳评估来设定利率的结果，而不是屈从于总统的偏好。”
华盛顿特区美国检察官让娜·皮罗（Jeanine Pirro）在鲍威尔宣布传票一事时表示，她办公室的工作人员”多次联系美联储，讨论超支问题和主席的国会证词，但遭到忽视，因此必须使用法律程序——这不是威胁。”
皮罗说：”‘起诉’这个词是鲍威尔先生说出来的，不是其他人。如果他们回应了我们的联系，这一切都不会发生。”
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Federal Reserve seeking to quash subpoenas in DOJ investigation, source says
Updated on: February 26, 2026 / 9:34 PM EST / CBS News
The Federal Reserve has been mounting a closed-door effort to block the Justice Department’s subpoenas for chairman Jerome Powell, CBS News has learned.
In January, Powell revealed that the Federal Reserve had received grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into him.
The subpoenas threatened a criminal indictment related to Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in June 2025, according to Powell. The chairman — who has drawn President Trump’s ire for declining to rapidly slash interest rates — said the probe centered on his comments about a years-long renovation project at the Federal Reserve’s office buildings.
The probe has not resulted in any criminal charges.
In sealed court proceedings, the Federal Reserve is challenging the legality of the subpoenas and asking a federal judge to quash them, according to a source familiar with the efforts. It’s unclear specifically what the Federal Reserve’s legal arguments are, and the challenge is taking place behind closed doors because of secrecy rules surrounding grand jury proceedings.
The Wall Street Journal was first to report the Federal Reserve’s move to quash the subpoenas.
The independently funded renovation project and Powell’s testimony came under scrutiny by the Trump administration last year, with Office of Management and Budget Chair Russell Vought accusing Powell of leading an “ostentatious” office renovation project that may be “violating the law.” The renovations have faced cost overruns.
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In his testimony to the Senate, Powell called some descriptions of the renovation project as overly lavish “misleading and inaccurate.” He told lawmakers there isn’t any new marble aside from what’s necessary to replace broken old marble and said there are no “special elevators,” new water features or rooftop gardens.
The questions about the renovations — and the subpoenas — followed a monthlong conflict between the Fed and Mr. Trump. The president has pressed the central bank to quickly lower interest rates in order to boost economic growth and lower borrowing costs, but the Fed has taken a more cautious tack, wary of causing inflation to spike. Meanwhile, the president has called Powell a “moron,” a “stubborn mule,” a “Trump Hater” and “Mr. Too Late.”
Powell’s term as Fed chair is set to end in May. He is eligible to remain on the Federal Reserve board until 2028, where he could continue to play a role in monetary policy, but he hasn’t indicated whether he will stay.
Powell argued last month that the criminal investigation was a pretext to put pressure onto the Fed and challenge its ability to set monetary policy independently.
“The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the president,” the chair said.
U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro said at the time of Powell’s announcement regarding the subpoenas that her office’s staff “contacted the Federal Reserve on multiple occasions to discuss cost overruns and the chairman’s congressional testimony, but were ignored, necessitating the use of legal process—which is not a threat.”
“The word ‘indictment’ has come out of Mr. Powell’s mouth, no one else’s,” Pirro said. “None of this would have happened if they had just responded to our outreach.”
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