Several large banks have been asked by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee to provide financial data of individuals with links to the Biden family.
The House Oversight Committee wrote to banking institutions requesting information on customers with links to the Biden family’s finances.
According to information obtained by Fox News, the Oversight Committee has issued subpoenas to five financial institutions and one individual in an effort to get financial data related to Hunter Biden and his business associate, Mervyn Yan.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md. ), the ranking Democrat on the Oversight Committee, has accused R. James Comer (R., Ky.) of seeking to hide information about the investigation from the Democrats on the committee.
Comer said Fox News, “Ranking Member Raskin has again released papers from the Committee in a cheap attempt to stop other witnesses from cooperating.” The American people and the media have every right to wonder what information Ranking Member Raskin is trying to suppress this time, given what he did with the initial bank request. Nobody should fall for Ranking Member Raskin’s manipulations. We have access to the Biden family’s financial records, and they don’t look good.
Republicans are conducting their investigation under a “veil of secrecy,” according to a report emailed out by the Oversight Committee’s Democratic staff on Thursday.
Republicans have spent a great deal of time and resources on this and other congressional panels, but they have uncovered no evidence that President Biden committed any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, Chairman Comer has issued six subpoenas for financial data as part of this current investigation. The study claims that some of these are based on erroneous information that Republicans on the Committee are aware of.
According to the Democratic claim, the Republicans haven’t announced or informed the Democrats of any subpoenas. Therefore, some witnesses subpoenaed by the committee may be unaware that they are being asked to produce evidence.
Committee Republican Chairman Comer submitted Bank of America the first covert request for records on February 27, 2023, as part of the ongoing investigation into the Biden family being conducted by the Committee. This request sought, among other things, “all financial records” for private U.S. citizen John R. Walker beginning on January 20, 2009 and continuing up to the present. Wow, 14 years is a long time!”Mr. Walker was never informed that the Committee had asked Bank of America for his financial records, that Bank of America had provided those records to the Committee, or that the Committee was making information from these records public,” the memorandum adds. This was all due to Chairman Comer’s use of a secret subpoena.