Il Fatto Quotidiano: La procura Usa chiude l’indagine sul presidente della Fed Jerome Powell. Via libera alla conferma di Warsh come successore

La procura americana ha annunciato di voler abbandonare le indagini sul presidente della Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, finito nel mirino di Donald Trump che lo ha accusato di eccessiva “timidezza” nel tagliare i tassi e poi sotto inchiesta per i presunti costi lievitati dei piani di ristrutturazione della sede della Banca centrale Usa. Viene così rimosso l’ostacolo che aveva bloccato la conferma di Kevin Warsh come suo successore.
La procuratrice federale di Washington, Jeanine Pirro, ha comunicato la decisione in un post su X, aggiungendo che sarà l’Ispettore Generale della Fed a esaminare “attentamente” le spese (“dell’ordine di miliardi”) per i lavori nella sede della Fed, “sostenuti dai contribuenti”. “Mi aspetto un rapporto esaustivo in tempi brevi e confido che l’esito contribuirà a risolvere, una volta per tutte, le questioni che hanno indotto questo Ufficio a emettere mandati di comparizione”, ha concluso Pirro, procuratrice del District of Columbia, la capitale Usa. “Si noti bene, tuttavia, che non esiterò a riaprire un’indagine penale qualora i fatti lo rendessero necessario”.
Un giudice federale aveva già stabilito che le citazioni a comparire dinanzi al Gran Giurì, notificate alla Fed nel mese di gennaio, erano improprie, rilevando inoltre la presenza di “prove essenzialmente nulle” riguardo a fatti penalmente rilevanti. Da parte democratica e anche da settori repubblicani era stata chiesta l’archiviazione dell’indagine, prima di procedere alla conferma della nomina di Warsh come nuovo presidente della Banca Centrale. Per essere confermato in commissione ha bisogno di ottenere il voto della maggioranza dei suoi membri, 13 repubblicani e 11 democratici.
Nei giorni scorsi il repubblicano Thom Tills aveva annunciato di voler bloccare la conferma della nomina se il dipartimento di Giustizia non avesse archiviato l’inchiesta. Lo scorso anno Tills ha rinunciato a ricandidarsi dopo essere finito nel mirino degli attacchi e insulti di Trump per aver votato contro il ‘Big, beautiful bill’.
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The US Justice Department closes the investigation into Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Green light given for Warsh’s confirmation as successor.

The U.S. Justice Department has announced it intends to drop its investigation into the president of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, who had been the target of accusations by Donald Trump of “excessive timidity” in cutting interest rates and subsequently investigated for allegedly inflated costs of the U.S. Central Bank’s headquarters renovation plans. This removes the obstacle that had blocked the confirmation of Kevin Warsh as his successor.

U.S. Attorney for Washington, Jeanine Pirro, announced the decision in a post on X, adding that the Fed’s General Inspector will “carefully” examine the expenses (“in the billions”) for the work at the Fed headquarters, “funded by taxpayers.” “I expect a comprehensive report in a short time and I trust that the outcome will contribute, once and for all, to resolve the issues that led this Office to issue subpoenas,” Pirro concluded, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the nation’s capital. “However, I will not hesitate to reopen a criminal investigation if the facts warrant it.”

A federal judge had already ruled that the subpoenas issued to the Grand Jury, served to the Fed in January, were improper, noting the presence of “substantially null evidence” regarding matters of criminal relevance. Demands for the investigation’s closure had come from both the Democratic and Republican sides, prior to proceeding with Warsh’s confirmation as the new head of the Central Bank. To be confirmed in committee, he needs the vote of a majority of its members, 13 Republicans and 11 Democrats.

In recent days, Republican Thom Tillis had announced he would block the confirmation of the appointment if the Department of Justice did not close the investigation. Last year, Tillis had withdrawn his candidacy after being the target of attacks and insults from Trump for voting against the “Big, beautiful bill.”

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https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/04/24/powell-indagine-fed-warsh-news/8365720/

The marquee matchup for the open US Senate seat in North Carolina will begin to resolve into focus Tuesday,
with a well-known former Democratic governor and a Donald Trump-endorsed but untested Republican appearing to lead the field.

In the Democratic primary, former two-term governor Roy #Cooper is ahead in recent polling against the slate of other candidates who have never held elected office. Cooper is widely seen among North Carolina’s Democrats as their best chance at flipping a Republican-controlled seat, now held by retiring US senator Thom #Tillis, a conservative who has turned hard against the Trump administration on its handling of healthcare, defense and the Epstein file disclosures.
For Republicans, Michael #Whatley, the former Republican National Committee chair, leads the field in polling, with his closest competitor, representative Don #Brown, in the single digits.

Polling in both primaries has been relatively scant and may have masked softness in conservative support for Whatley. About half of the Republican electorate remains undecided heading to voting booths Tuesday.
Whatley has Trump’s endorsement, but that hasn’t stopped the grumbling on the right.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/03/north-carolina-democratic-republican-primaries-senate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Trump can only afford to lose the support of four Republican senators in a vote for a new #Fed chair
-- which means #Tillis and #Murkowski’s vows not to support any nominee until the case against Powell is resolved carry significant weight.
A bipartisan group of economists who have served under US presidents dating back to Ronald Reagan
—including former Federal Reserve Chairs Alan #Greenspan, Ben #Bernanke, and Janet #Yellin
—released a joint statement on Monday denouncing what they described as an effort to strong-arm the Federal Reserve into doing the president’s bidding.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/jerome-powell-investigation-backlash

Darren Woods is known mostly as the chairman of ExxonMobil,
the largest U.S. oil company.

On Friday, however, he made noise in a different sphere by placing an obscure financial term into the political lexicon:

"#Uninvestible."

That's how Woods described Venezuela
—more specifically, Venezuela's oil industry.

His remark came during a meeting of some two dozen oil executives convened at the White House by President Trump,
whose goal was to collect their praise for his capture and arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro to face U.S. drug trafficking charges.

Trump opened the session with a lengthy spiel suggesting that the spigots of Venezuelan oil would soon be open,
flooding the market with cheap petroleum for the benefit of American taxpayers, Venezuelan citizens
and big oil companies.

He spoke with the confidence of a self-appointed Venezuelan Shogun
—indeed, over the weekend he amended his biography on his TruthSocial online platform to give himself the title of
"Acting President of Venezuela."

Trump told the gathered executives that the U.S. would somehow control which oil companies would be permitted to invest in Venezuela

—"We're going to be making the decision as to which oil companies are going to go in—that are we're going to allow to go in....
You're dealing with us directly, you're not dealing with Venezuela at all, we don't want you to deal with Venezuela."

Leaving aside that Trump's authority to make those judgments is questionable in the extreme,

so is the oil industry's interest in piling into Venezuela.

At current world oil prices hovering around $60 per barrel or less,
large investments in the Venezuelan oil fields would be marginally profitable at best.

The addition of a large new supply from Venezuela, which is thought to have the largest untapped reserves in the world, would only drive the price lower.

At Friday's roundtable, Woods was the most outspokenly pessimistic about reinvesting in Venezuela,
but his remarks corresponded to a new atmosphere in Trump's relationships with American institutions:
#resistance.

Most recently, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome #Powell responded forcefully to the disclosure that Trump's hand-picked U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro, served subpoenas pointing to a criminal investigation of Powell and the the Fed
—ostensibly over the cost of renovations of the Fed's Washington headquarters.

On Sunday, Powell issued a written and video statement pushing back:

"This new threat is not about my testimony last June
or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings," he said.

"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."

Remarkably, Powell received support from Sen. Thom #Tillis
(R-N.C.)
who sits on both the Senate Banking and Judiciary committees, which oversee the Fed and the Dept. of Justice, respectively.

"If there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve,
there should now be none,”
said Tillis, who is not running for reelection.

“It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question.”

He said he would oppose confirmation of any nominee to the Fed board
—including a looming nomination to succeed Powell
—"until this legal matter is fully resolved."

Powell's term as Fed chair ends in May, though his term as a Fed board member won't expire until 2028.

Tillis' concern was echoed Monday by another Republican senator,
Lisa #Murkowski of Alaska,
who labeled the Fed investigation Monday morning and called the administration's investigation
"nothing more than an attempt at coercion."

She said Tillis "is right in blocking any Federal Reserve nominees until this is resolved."

#Venezuela was one subject on which some Republican lawmakers have voted to thwart Trump:

♦️Five Republican senators joined Democrats to advance a measure that would require Trump to obtain congressional approval for any further military action in the country.

♦️And 17 GOP House members joined Democrats to pass a bill extending Affordable Care Act premium subsidies for three years,
despite Trump's explicit opposition to the extension.

♦️The fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has drawn bipartisan criticism.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hiltzik-trumps-venezuelan-oil-adventure-202328739.html

Die USA ist vielleicht doch noch nicht ganz verloren...

https://www.facebook.com/reel/895587463411422

#trump #usa #tillis #greenland #nato #stupid #pbs #pbsnews

U.S. Senator Thom #Tillis said Canada should repay $300B for decades of underspending on defense, despite now meeting NATO’s 2% target. Speaking at the Halifax Security Forum, he criticized Canada’s “shortfall” amid rising tensions over allied burden-sharing.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/22/gop-lawmaker-demands-300b-in-defense-dues-from-canada-00666112

#Ukraine #Russia #US #GOP #Canada #NATO