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However, the report stated there were no reasonable grounds to believe a federal crime occurred requiring referral to the U.S. Attorney General.","category":"Politics","area":"United States","publishedAt":"2026-09-30T17:45:58.933Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-09-30T17:20:12.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T17:45:58.933Z","readTime":"3 min read","scores":{"trust":60,"critic":65,"hype":40,"notes":{"trust":"Central claim attributed to named body; two independent outlets; report quotes Fed IG.","critic":"Reports quote the Fed IG and name specific figures, dates, and places.","hype":"Headlines promise no criminal wrongdoing, which is supported by the article body."}},"tags":["#FederalReserve","#Renovation","#InspectorGeneral","#DonaldTrump","#JeromePowell","#CostOverruns"],"entities":["Federal Reserve","Inspector General","Donald Trump","Jerome Powell","U.S. Attorney General","Michael Horowitz"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["Management and oversight failures contributed to cost overruns in the Federal Reserve's headquarters renovation, according to the inspector general.","The renovation project's cost ballooned by approximately $1 billion from initial estimates.","The inspector general found no reasonable grounds to believe a federal crime occurred that would require referral to the U.S. Attorney General.","The Federal Reserve's 2025 budget allocated $2.5 billion for the renovation project."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The Federal Reserve's inspector general has concluded that management and oversight failures led to significant cost overruns in the central bank's headquarters renovation. The independent watchdog also determined that there were no reasonable grounds to believe a federal crime had occurred, thus no referral to the U.S. Attorney General was warranted. The renovation project saw its costs increase by roughly $1 billion from initial estimates. The Federal Reserve's 2025 budget had allocated $2.5 billion for this project."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on criminal referral"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"While the Federal Reserve inspector general found no grounds for a criminal referral, some reports indicate that Trump administration prosecutors had alleged criminal violations. The inspector general's report, as cited by CNBC, stated, \"At no point during our evaluation did we find reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of federal criminal law had occurred requiring a referral to the U.S. Attorney General.\" Tippinsights reported that investigators found no reasonable grounds to believe federal criminal law had been violated. However, WBAL, The Independent, The Independent (US), and Winnipeg Free Press stated that the watchdog found no criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the left-rated digests mention the specific figure of $700 million more than earlier estimates for the renovation cost, a detail present in the full report from CNBC. 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