Comer has obtained thousands of pages of the Biden family's financial records through subpoenas to the Treasury Department and various financial institutions since January.Ĭomer has not revealed much about the findings of his investigation so far. House Republicans have used the power of their new majority to aggressively investigate Joe Biden and Hunter Biden's business dealings, including examining foreign payments and other aspects of the family's finances. The lawmakers used the word “alleged” three times in the opening paragraph of the letter and offered no evidence of the veracity of the accusations or any details about what they contend are “highly credible unclassified whistleblower disclosures.” The subpoena seeks all so-called FD-1023 forms and accompanying attachments and documents. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, said that “it has come to our attention” that the bureau has such a document that “describes an alleged criminal scheme” involving Biden and a foreign national “relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions” when Biden was vice president and includes “a precise description” about it. Comer, in a letter to Wray with Republican Sen. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee and Accountability, is seeking a specific FBI form from June 2020 that is a report of conversations or interactions with a confidential source.
#Congress subpoenas redacted email from fbi series#
The White House said it was the latest example in the yearslong series of “unfounded, unproven” political attacks against Biden by Republicans ”floating anonymous innuendo." The select committee has not yet scheduled another public hearing since its emotional testimony with officers who responded to the insurrection, though Thompson said the panel would make a decision on the focus of its next hearing “before the week’s up.”īetsy Woodruff Swan contributed to this report.WASHINGTON - A top House Republican subpoenaed FBI Director Chris Wray on Wednesday for what he claimed are bureau records related to President Joe Biden and his family, basing the demand on newly surfaced allegations he said an unnamed whistleblower made to Congress. The House Oversight Committee had previously probed the involvement of social media companies like Parler, subsequently uncovering the company’s warnings to the FBI about threats of violence before the attack. Some panel members have said Jordan and other Republican members of Congress are akin to “material witnesses” to the insurrection. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke to Trump that day. The phone records could shed light on a series of phone calls between Republican members of Congress and former President Donald Trump on Jan. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a committee member, told POLITICO a “set of preservation requests are going out - just to hold all relevant documents.” Thompson confirmed that members of Congress could be included in the records requests, and that there were “several hundred” people the committee sought to contact as part of the wide-ranging probe. The letters would seek voluntary compliance with their investigation before the committee would issue subpoenas, he said. “We’ll look at all records at some point.
0 kommentar(er)
