Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, conducts the House Judiciary Committee listening to on the “Report of Special Counsel John Durham,” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
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WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to Citibank on Thursday, demanding details about whether or not the financial institution gave regulation enforcement details about buyer transactions within the days surrounding the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The subpoena, obtained completely by CNBC, got here after Jordan previously requested that a number of monetary establishments, together with Citibank, present the knowledge voluntarily. They embody Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, PNC, Truist, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo.
Citibank was the one financial institution that had not voluntarily complied with the committee’s request, in keeping with a supply acquainted with the investigation.
The financial institution’s attorneys instructed the committee it might solely do underneath a subpoena, in keeping with Jordan.
The wider probe into whether or not banks turned over knowledge to the federal government to help within the investigation and prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters was sparked by an FBI whistleblower, who disclosed that Bank of America had voluntarily supplied an inventory of people that made transactions with a BofA credit score or debit card within the Washington space between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021.
BofA didn’t deny the whistleblower’s allegation, telling Fox News earlier this 12 months that that the financial institution “follows all applicable laws” to “narrowly respond to law enforcement requests.”
Now the committee desires to know if different banks did the identical.
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