{"id":1176,"date":"2026-01-12T02:20:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/justice-department-opens-investigation-into-jerome-powell-as-trump-ramps-up-campaign-against-federal-reserve\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T02:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:20:58","slug":"justice-department-opens-investigation-into-jerome-powell-as-trump-ramps-up-campaign-against-federal-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/justice-department-opens-investigation-into-jerome-powell-as-trump-ramps-up-campaign-against-federal-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice department opens investigation into Jerome Powell as Trump ramps up campaign against Federal Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fed chair accuses DoJ of threatening criminal charges over building renovation projects because central bank defied Trump\u2019s interest rate demandsThe Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve, a significant escalation in Donald Trump\u2019s extraordinary attack on the US central bank.Powell said the Department of Justice had served the Fed with grand jury subpoenas on Friday, threatening a criminal indictment related to his testimony before the Senate banking committee in June last year, regarding renovations to the Fed\u2019s historic office buildings in Washington DC. Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed chair accuses DoJ of threatening criminal charges over building renovation projects because central bank defied Trump\u2019s interest rate demandsThe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}