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2025年12月10日，美国华盛顿特区，美国联邦公开市场委员会为期两天的会议结束后，美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔举行新闻发布会。路透社/凯文·拉马克/档案照片 购买授权，打开新标签页
- 摘要
- 法官称检方未提交任何欺诈证据
- 美国检察官珍妮娜·皮尔罗预计将提起上诉
- 蒂利斯参议员已誓言，在上诉待决期间将阻止凯文·沃什的提名
华盛顿4月3日（路透社）——美国一名法官周五维持了此前的裁决，驳回了针对美联储主席杰罗姆·鲍威尔的刑事调查中发出的传票，这可能引发上诉，进一步推迟唐纳德·特朗普总统任命一位更顺从的央行行长的计划。
华盛顿特区美国首席地区法官詹姆斯·博斯伯格驳回了司法部要求重新审议其先前裁决的请求，该裁决实际上暂停了针对鲍威尔的刑事调查。
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博斯伯格在3月13日的裁决中认定，1月份向美联储理事会发出的传票是以不当目的发出的，旨在向鲍威尔施压，要求其顺应特朗普的要求，迅速降息或辞职。
这些传票由华盛顿特区联邦最高检察官珍妮娜·皮尔罗发出，她是特朗普的坚定盟友，传票旨在索要美联储总部翻新工程超支的相关信息，以及鲍威尔去年就该项目在国会作证的内容。
博斯伯格在周五的裁决（打开新标签页）中表示，皮尔罗的办公室“远未能说服法院改判”，并补充称，检方“完全没有善意的依据怀疑存在犯罪行为”。
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“政府的根本问题在于，它完全没有提交任何欺诈证据，”博斯伯格写道，他是由民主党总统巴拉克·奥巴马任命的。
皮尔罗的一位发言人在一份声明中表示，她的办公室“绝对会对司法机构干涉我们获取大陪审团信息的行为提起上诉”。
美联储拒绝置评。
此次裁决是鲍威尔与皮尔罗办公室就调查展开斗争的最新胜利，鲍威尔称此次调查是特朗普试图加大对美联储和货币政策影响力的借口。
皮尔罗提起的任何上诉都将由美国哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院审理。据一位知情人士透露，司法部领导层已支持提起上诉的决定。
继任者提名确认受阻
上诉可能会推迟特朗普提名的接替鲍威尔担任美联储主席的凯文·沃什的确认程序。
北卡罗来纳州联邦参议员汤姆·蒂利斯是参议院银行委员会的共和党成员，他曾批评针对鲍威尔的调查，他誓言，在任何上诉程序进行期间，将继续阻挠沃什的提名。
鲍威尔已承诺不会离开美联储，直到调查结束。
检方表示，他们正在调查鲍威尔是否存在欺诈罪名以及向国会委员会作虚假陈述的行为。但根据法庭记录，皮尔罗办公室的一名高级律师在3月3日的法庭上承认，检方目前并不掌握鲍威尔犯罪的证据。
皮尔罗的办公室要让博斯伯格推翻先前的裁决，面临很高的法律门槛，必须证明要么出现了新证据，要么法官存在明显的法律错误。
司法部律师辩称，博斯伯格为检方在调查初期设定了过高的标准，并误解了调查的时间线。
美联储理事会的律师认为，博斯伯格的初步裁决有“压倒性证据”支持。
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US judge upholds block on subpoenas to Fed’s Powell, teeing up likely appeal
2026-04-03T16:54:09.25Z / Reuters
By Andrew Goudsward and Nate Raymond
April 3, 2026 4:54 PM UTC Updated 36 mins ago
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* Summary
* Judge says prosecutors presented no evidence of fraud
* U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro expected to appeal
* Senator Tillis has vowed to block Kevin Warsh’s nomination while any appeal is pending
WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday stood by his prior decision to block subpoenas issued in a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, setting up a likely appeal that could further delay President Donald Trump’s move to install a more compliant central bank head.
Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C. rejected the Justice Department’s bid to reconsider his earlier ruling, which had effectively halted the criminal probe into Powell.
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Boasberg in a March 13 ruling determined that subpoenas to the Fed’s Board of Governors in January were issued for the improper purpose of pressuring Powell to accede to Trump’s demands to rapidly lower interest rates or resign.
The subpoenas, issued by Washington, D.C.’s top federal prosecutor Jeanine Pirro, a stalwart Trump ally, sought information about cost overruns in renovations at the Fed’s headquarters and Powell’s testimony to Congress last year about the project.
Boasberg, in Friday’s ruling, opens new tab, said Pirro’s office had “not come close to convincing the Court that a different outcome is warranted,” adding that prosecutors had a “total lack of a good-faith basis to suspect a crime.”
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“The Government’s fundamental problem is that it has presented no evidence whatsoever of fraud,” wrote Boasberg, who was appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama.
A spokesperson for Pirro in a statement said her office “will absolutely appeal the judiciary’s interference with our access to the grand jury.”
The Fed declined to comment.
The ruling is Powell’s latest victory in his battle with Pirro’s office about the investigation, which he has called a pretext for Trump to gain more influence over the Fed and monetary policy.
Any appeal by Pirro would be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Justice Department leadership has backed the decision to appeal, according to a source familiar with the matter.
SUCCESSOR CONFIRMATION DELAY
The appeal could delay confirmation of Kevin Warsh, Trump’s pick to succeed Powell as Fed chair.
U.S. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, a Republican member of the Senate Banking Committee who has criticized the probe into Powell, has vowed to continue blocking Warsh’s nomination while any appeal plays out.
Powell has pledged not to leave the central bank until the probe is over.
Prosecutors have said they are investigating Powell for potential fraud charges and false statements to a congressional committee. But a top lawyer in Pirro’s office acknowledged in court on March 3 that prosecutors do not currently know what evidence exists that Powell committed a crime, according to a court transcript.
Pirro’s office faced a high legal bar to convince Boasberg to reverse his earlier decision, having to show that either new evidence emerged or that the judge made a clear legal error.
Justice Department lawyers argued that Boasberg set too high a standard for prosecutors to meet at the early stages of an investigation and misinterpreted the timeline of the probe.
Lawyers for the Fed’s Board of Governors argued that Boasberg’s initial ruling was backed by “overwhelming evidence.”
Reporting by Andrew Goudsward in Washington and Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Dan Burns, Andrea Ricci and Bill Berkrot
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