{"id":18745,"date":"2026-02-08T00:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tim-scott-on-doj-probe-into-powell-i-do-not-believe-that-he-committed-a-crime-in-fed-hq-testimony-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T00:22:24","slug":"tim-scott-on-doj-probe-into-powell-i-do-not-believe-that-he-committed-a-crime-in-fed-hq-testimony-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tim-scott-on-doj-probe-into-powell-i-do-not-believe-that-he-committed-a-crime-in-fed-hq-testimony-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott on DOJ probe into Powell: \u2018I do not believe that he committed a crime\u2019 in Fed HQ testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott on Wednesday said he did not believe Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell committed a crime during his congressional testimony last year about the central bank&rsquo;s headquarter renovations. &ldquo;I was the one asking the questions,&rdquo; he said on Fox Business. &ldquo;Jay Powell was responding to me&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/02\/04\/congress\/scott-powell-doj-probe-00764230\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott on Wednesday said he did not believe Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell committed a crime during his congressional testimony last year about the central bank&rsquo;s headquarter renovations. &ldquo;I was the one asking the questions,&rdquo; he said on Fox Business. &ldquo;Jay Powell was responding to me&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}