WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Donald Trump slammed a group of U.S. attorneys for not moving fast enough to prosecute his favored targets during an event at the White House last week, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Dozens of attorneys from across the United States gathered at the White House on Thursday for a ceremonial photo shoot before Trump criticized them for being ineffective and for disrupting the work of Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy, Todd Blanche, the report said, citing people familiar with the exchange.
The move came days before the U.S. Federal Reserve confirmed on Sunday that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell was under investigation over the central bank's multi-billion-dollar project to renovate its headquarters by the federal prosecutors.
In a public statement posted on the website of the Federal Reserve, Powell said that the Department of Justice on Friday served the Fed with grand jury subpoenas, "threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last June. That testimony concerned in part a multi-year project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings." ■
