Two prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office showed up without warning at Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, asked to tour the site of a $2.5 billion renovation project, and were denied entry. The confrontation marks the latest escalation in an ongoing dispute between the Justice Department and the nation’s central bank over a construction project whose costs have ballooned nearly 80 percent beyond the original budget.
Carlton Davis and Steven Vandervelden, both special counsels hired by Pirro, spoke with construction workers at the Fed building and said they wanted to check on the progress of the work, The Independent reported. They were told they could not access the site without pre-clearance and were handed contact information for the Fed’s legal staff.
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