From the Washington Examiner: The Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors has enlisted former special counsel Robert Hur to help defend the central bank against Justice Department subpoenas targeting Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, according to court filings unsealed Friday that revealed a federal judge blocked the government’s demands for records.
Hur, a former U.S. attorney who investigated former President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, has been working as part of the Federal Reserve’s legal team as the central bank moved to quash subpoenas tied to a criminal investigation into renovations of the Fed’s Washington headquarters.
The filings were unsealed Friday after Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, ruled that the subpoenas issued by federal prosecutors were improper and should be quashed.
Although it’s unclear when Hur first joined the Board of Governors’ legal defense team, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Friday her office had been investigating the case since November. The White House in January defended the investigation into Powell after he released a video claiming he was being targeted in an “unprecedented” inquiry based on “political pressure” and “intimidation.”
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