Pirro says activist judge ‘neutered’ probe into fed boss – and it’s flat-out illegal!

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro dropped a political bombshell, accusing a federal judge of pulling the plug on a grand jury investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell — and she’s not mincing words. According to Pirro, the move isn’t just questionable — it’s flat-out illegal.

And if you ask her, it’s Exhibit A in why Americans are fed up with a system where taxpayer dollars vanish into a bureaucratic abyss while accountability is nowhere to be found.

Pirro laid it out bluntly: prosecutors rely on grand juries as one of their oldest and most powerful tools to investigate potential wrongdoing — whether it’s corruption, fraud, or eye-popping cost overruns. But now, she says, that tool has been ripped right out of their hands.

“Today, however, in Washington, an activist judge has taken that tool away from us,” Pirro said, charging that the judge “insert[ed] himself and prevent[ed] the grand jury from even obtaining, let alone hearing evidence,” effectively crippling its ability to investigate.

Her conclusion? The probe is dead in the water — and Powell is, for now, untouchable.

“As a result, Jerome Powell today is now bathed in immunity, preventing my office from investigating the Federal Reserve,” she said. “This is wrong and it is without legal authority.”

At the heart of the controversy is a staggering price tag. Pirro pointed to Powell’s June 2025 testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, where she says he made “questionable statements that did not comport with publicly available documents” regarding a renovation project that ballooned out of control.

And we’re not talking pocket change.

“I didn’t say million, I said billion,” Pirro emphasized — more than $1 billion in overruns tied to renovations at Fed headquarters. Not exactly reassuring, she noted, coming from someone tasked with safeguarding public funds.

By November, her office had launched a formal inquiry. Prosecutors spent months gathering information before issuing two grand jury subpoenas. But according to Pirro, the response from the Fed was… crickets.

Emails sent on December 19 and again on December 29 requesting meetings or even a simple phone call? Ignored. A follow-up asking to meet in early January? Also ignored.

Only after that wall of silence did prosecutors escalate, issuing subpoenas — not even directly to Powell, but to the Federal Reserve itself.

Still nothing. Instead, Pirro blasted Powell for going on the offensive in the court of public opinion.

“[A] woe-is-me video by Mr. Powell falsely claiming that he was being threatened with criminal indictment,” she said, accusing him of playing the victim while refusing to hand over basic documents.

She didn’t stop there. Pirro claims Powell worked the phones, rallying political allies in Washington and beyond to shield himself from scrutiny — all while the requested records remained out of reach.

Enter U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, who Pirro says made his stance crystal clear in a written ruling she claims shows “antipathy” toward former President Trump and his administration.

The judge quashed both subpoenas — shutting down access to documents and blocking prosecutors from presenting evidence to a grand jury made up of everyday Americans.

Game over. Or at least, that’s how it looks for now.

The fallout is already sparking outrage in conservative circles, with renewed calls for Congress to take action against what critics are calling “activist judges” who overstep their authority.

Pirro left no doubt where she stands.

“Ladies and gentlemen,” she said, “no one is above the law.”