Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, conducts the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Report of Special Counsel John Durham, within the Rayburn Constructing, Washington, D.C., 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 the bank gave law enforcement details about customer transactions in the times surrounding the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The subpoena, obtained exclusively by CNBC, got here after Jordan previously requested that several financial institutions, including Citibank, provide the knowledge voluntarily. They include Bank of America, JPMorgan, PNC, Truist, U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo.
Citibank was the one bank that had not voluntarily complied with the committee’s request, in keeping with a source accustomed to the investigation.
The bank’s lawyers told the committee it could only accomplish that under a subpoena, in keeping with Jordan. A Citibank spokesperson didn’t immediately reply to CNBC’s request for comment.
The broader probe into whether banks turned over data to the federal government to help within the investigation and prosecution of the Jan. 6 rioters was sparked by an FBI whistleblower, who disclosed that Bank of America had voluntarily provided an inventory of people that made transactions with a BofA bank card or debit card within the Washington area between Jan. 5, 2021, and Jan. 7, 2021.
BofA didn’t deny the whistleblower’s allegation, telling Fox News earlier this 12 months that the bank “follows all applicable laws” to “narrowly reply to law enforcement requests.”
Now, the committee desires to know if other banks did the identical.
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