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84 Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, conducts the House Judiciary Committee proceeding connected the "Report of Special Counsel John Durham," successful Rayburn Building connected Wednesday, June 21, 2023.
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WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to Citibank connected Thursday, demanding accusation astir whether the slope gave instrumentality enforcement accusation astir lawsuit transactions successful the days surrounding the onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2021.
The subpoena, obtained exclusively by CNBC, came aft Jordan previously requested that respective fiscal institutions, including Citibank, supply the accusation voluntarily. They see Bank of America, J.P. Morgan, PNC, Truist, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo.
Citibank was the lone slope that had not voluntarily complied with the committee's request, according to a root acquainted with the investigation.
The bank's lawyers told the committee it would lone bash nether a subpoena, according to Jordan. A Citibank spokesperson did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from CNBC.
The wider probe into whether banks turned implicit information to the authorities to assistance successful the probe and prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters was sparked by an FBI whistleblower, who disclosed that Bank of America had voluntarily provided a database of radical who made transactions with a BofA recognition oregon debit paper successful the Washington country betwixt Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021.
BofA did not contradict the whistleblower's allegation, telling Fox News earlier this twelvemonth that that the slope "follows each applicable laws" to "narrowly respond to instrumentality enforcement requests."
Now the committee wants to cognize if different banks did the same.
