Drop the investigation.
Get your new guy confirmed.
Restart the investigation.
Rinse and repeat.
Exactly. Just because one leaves doesn’t mean they are immune from prosecution. Well, sort of.
“Drop the investigation.
Get your new guy confirmed.
Restart the investigation.
Rinse and repeat.”
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If it was dropped in the “furtherance of justice,” the indictments can’t be brought before a Grand Jury again. I’d also bet that the court dismissed the indictment “with prejudice,” which also forecloses future charges.
Even if Trump’s guy is confirmed, Powell doesn’t have to leave the Board of Governors, and the Chairman is just one vote out of 12.