Treasury official ordered to appear for Hunter Biden interview under penalty of perjury

A top House Republican investigator demands that you a Treasury Department Official appear in a transcript interview about the department refusal to hand over suspicious activity reports On Hunter Biden.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Chair of the House Oversight The Treasury Department Assistant Secretary For Legislative Affairs Jonathan Davidson was to be questioned at a hearing set for Friday by the Accountability Committee. However, the GOP investigator discovered that Davidson had refused to attend, and so Comer is being called in. demanding Davidson was required to testify in front of his committee on Tuesday, under the penalty for perjury.

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“Treasury Department officials have repeatedly said that they are cooperating with the committee’s request but all we’ve seen is obstruction,” Tuesday night, Comer spoke. “We’ve offered multiple good faith accommodations, but Treasury continues to provide excuses and employ delay tactics. We are done with the excuses and calling on Assistant Secretary Jonathan Davidson to answer questions under the penalty of perjury next week.”

Much of 2022, and 2023 were spent by Comer repeatedly pushing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen You must give the bank suspicious activity reports. Biden family businesses He argued that Treasury Department’s pathetic responses were the reason. continued to stonewall his efforts To find out more about financial transactions President Joe Biden’s son This article is linked China, Russia, and elsewhere.

The office of Comer said Tuesday: The Kentucky Republican was currently “blasting the Department of Treasury for refusing to provide an official to testify.”

Chairperson of the House committee said Davidson declined Monday to attend Friday’s hearing. Comer now wants the Treasury official for a next-week interview. Davidson previously replied to Comer’s September 2022 requests for information. defending the department’s decision to keep a close hold on the suspicious activity reports.

“The Department deeply respects the critical oversight role of Congress and remains committed to responding to appropriate requests from committees of jurisdiction,” The Treasury official wrote that he believed “safeguarding Bank Secrecy Act information is critical to law enforcement efforts to investigate money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit financial activity.”

“These suspicious activity reports and other BSA reports filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network contain details of financial transactions and other sensitive, nonpublic information. This is preliminary and unverified tip-and-lead information on possible violations of law.”

Treasury Department claimed In May 2022, it will become “has made SARs available for every request we’ve received, regardless of party, and will continue to do so.” But Comer said that in July 2022 “This is not true.”

Use the Comer wrote In January 2023, Yellen requested access to the SARs again. “during the 117th Congress, the Department of the Treasury refused our requests to provide information about the Biden family.” A follow-up was sent by the Republican letter The Treasury Department claimed last month that they were unable to verify the allegations. “Treasury has not provided the Committee any SARs to date” And claiming the department is “made several excuses for