Republican Party’s’s” Key” Subpoenas in the Biden Family Probe: Top Oversight Democrat Cries

The best Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee charges that the majority party personally issued subpoenas without giving Democrats enough notice, and that committee Republicans are conducting their investigation into the Biden family’s’s business traffic” behind a veil of secrecy.”

Ranking Member Jamie Raskin( D – Md.) sent a memo to committee Democrats on April 6( pdf ). claimed that in a burst with long-standing precedent, Republicans had issued six summons for financial records without giving Democrats” good notice.”

Raskin wrote,” The Committee’s’s common commitment to transparency is violated by the choice to perform this analysis in secrecy, and this raises serious concerns about the integrity of the investigation.” Additionally, Committee Republicans forced the release of confidential citizens’ personal financial information without giving the affected parties any notice as a result of Chairman James Comer’s’s covert activities, leading to at least one misaddressed lawsuit.

According to the letter, warrants have already been issued to Mervyn Yan, a former venture associate of Hunter Biden, Bank of America, Cathay Bank, JP Morgan Chase, and HSBC Bank USA N. A. A fifth summons was afterwards issued to correct the error caused by the initial misaddressing of the HSBC Bank USA N. A. under the incorrect name.

According to Raskin,” If Committee Democrats had been given adequate notice, we might have been able to stop Chairman Comer from subpoenaing the incorrect party— a matter that had previously damaged the dignity of Committee studies under a previous Democrat chair.”

The summons, which” in most cases” lasted for at least 14 years, sought the financial records of six people and a minimum of ten institutions.

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