The Justice Department is escalating its standoff with judges in the Eastern District of Virginia with a new filing defending Lindsey Halligan, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the prosecutors’ office whose work in the cases against James Comey and Letitia James has been nullified.

Peter Conti-Brown, a University of Pennsylvania professor of financial regulation, told PolitiFact in July that Powell could argue that leveraging the renovation budget is a "pretext" for his firing — a legal term used to describe a false reason an employer gives for firing an employee in order to cover the real reason.

The Justice Department has a new fraud division and an assistant attorney general that will focus on thwarting fraud anywhere in the United States.

US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Jamie Dimon, chief of JPMorgan Chase and threatened to sue the lender for debanking him following the 6 January Capitol riot in 2021. He also refuted Dimon's claim that the executive for offered the role of Fed chief.

Three of the pardons concern the principle participants in a fraud scheme involving the former governor of Puerto Rico.

President Trump discussed his "morality," Iran and the DOJ's investigation of Jerome Powell in an interview with CBS Evening News.