According to a report from The Washington Examiner, the U.S. Treasury Department has finally complied with the House Oversight Committee and will release suspicious activity reports (SARs) related to the Bidens.
Committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) shared the news on Twitter.
“@USTreasury has caved.
It should never have taken @GOPoversight threatening to hold a hearing and a transcribed interview with an official under the penalty of perjury for Treasury to finally provide access to suspicious activity reports generated by the Biden family.”
???? @USTreasury has caved.
It should never have taken @GOPoversight threatening to hold a hearing and a transcribed interview with an official under the penalty of perjury for Treasury to finally provide access to suspicious activity reports generated by the Biden family.???????? https://t.co/4uDJJuduUr
— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) March 14, 2023
From The Washington Examiner:
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, had spent much of 2022, when he was ranking member, and early 2023, when he obtained the gavel, repeatedly pushing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to hand over the suspicious bank reports linked to Biden family businesses, as he argued that the Treasury Department’s meager responses continued to block his efforts to get answers on the financial transactions of President Joe Biden’s son linked to China, Russia, and elsewhere.
The Treasury Department only relented after Comer threatened to schedule a public hearing focused on Yellen’s intransigence and after the Republican chairman ordered a now-postponed transcribed interview with Treasury Department assistant secretary for legislative affairs Jonathan Davidson. The committee can now review the suspicious activity reports “in camera,” meaning behind closed doors.
Comer had asked that Yellen hand over “all SARs generated in connection with” Hunter Biden, his uncle James Biden, the younger Biden’s business partners (including Eric Schwerin and Devon Archer), and his businesses. Comer also asked Treasury to provide any Financial Crimes Enforcement Network records tied to any banks related to Hunter Biden, James Biden, and others.
More over at The Washington Examiner:
#BREAKING: Hunter Biden suspicious activity reports can now be reviewed by House GOP Oversight Committee https://t.co/XMbhloqJcX
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 14, 2023
