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Watchdog Clears Powell, Says Fed Board Mishandled Costs

While faulting Fed managers for weak cost controls that led to a roughly $1 billion overrun, the Federal Reserve's inspector general on Wednesday cleared former Chair Jerome Powell of criminal wrongdoing in the central bank's $2.4 billion headquarters renovation.

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