
No criminal wrongdoing in Federal Reserve building renovation, watchdog says, but it was mismanaged
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog said Wednesday that the agency has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors. The Fed’s inspector general said that a variety of missteps by its Board of Governors inflated the cost of the $2. 4 billion renovation. The board did not secure a comprehensive cost estimate at the beginning of the project, nor did it nail down a a...
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