Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said on Monday the Federal Reserve “ignored” her office’s request for more information related to the Department of Justice’s criminal investigation into Fed Chairman Jerome Powell multiple times.

Pirro directly challenged Powell’s claim that the Trump administration had threatened a “criminal indictment” against the embattled chairman. She said the inquiry could have been avoided if the Fed simply cooperated with her office’s questions.

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