Judge blocks subpoenas against Fed Chair Jerome Powell "A mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning," Judge James Boasberg, the chief
Judge blocks subpoenas in Fed Chair Jerome Powell probe citing . . . A top federal judge in Washington on Friday blocked Justice Department subpoenas to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors after determining the government "produced essentially zero evidence" to support a criminal investigation of Fed Chair Jerome Powell, according to an unsealed court opinion
Boasberg blocks subpoenas against Fed Chair Jerome Powell A federal judge blocked the Justice Department's efforts to issue a pair of grand jury subpoenas to the Federal Reserve Board, concluding that the effort was merely a "pretext" to pressure