The May 2026 reports of a Justice Department inquiry into potential perjury by E. Jean Carroll centered on her 2022 deposition statements about outside funding for her civil suits against President Trump, which later involved a nonprofit linked to Reid Hoffman. Those reports were promptly denied by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, who stated no criminal investigation into Carroll herself had been opened, shifting focus to funding issues or the nonprofit. No indictment or charges have followed amid the high evidentiary threshold for federal perjury cases, prior court findings on the funding disclosure, and Carroll’s age. Supreme Court rejections of Trump’s appeals in the underlying civil matters in June and August 2026 produced no new enforcement developments. Trader assessments of federal charging prospects by December 31, 2026, reflect the absence of further public action, procedural barriers, and the disputed scope of the initial referral.