{"id":1542213,"date":"2022-07-06T22:04:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T02:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542213"},"modified":"2022-07-06T22:04:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T02:04:44","slug":"top-house-republican-presses-yellen-to-share-records-of-hunter-bidens-foreign-business-dealings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-house-republican-presses-yellen-to-share-records-of-hunter-bidens-foreign-business-dealings\/","title":{"rendered":"Top House Republican Presses Yellen to Share Records of Hunter Biden\u2019s Foreign Business Dealings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-house-republican-presses-yellen-to-share-records-of-hunter-bidens-foreign-business-dealings%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1542213&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A top House Republican is demanding Treasury Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-janet-yellen\">Janet Yellen<\/a> release records on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hunter-biden\">Hunter Biden<\/a>\u2019s foreign business activities, alleging that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-biden\">biden<\/a> administration\u2019s reluctance to release such details suggest an effort to shield the Biden family from scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter on July 6, Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-james-comer\">James Comer<\/a> (R-Ky.), a ranking member on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, asked Yellen to provide reports of what he thought was \u201csuspicious activity\u201d on the part of the younger Biden, his business associates, and other Biden family members.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter, the second son of President Joe Biden, is currently under federal investigation for potential tax violations. Scrutiny has been growing over his overseas business dealings in countries such as Ukraine, Russia, and China, particularly during the period while Biden was vice president in the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Bank Secrecy Act, U.S. banks flag cash transactions exceeding $10,000 a day and automatically generate suspicious activity reports, also called SARs, in a bid to help U.S. government agencies prevent money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>Comer previously wrote to Yellen in late May requesting the SAR reports for Hunter Biden but received no answer. He accused the Biden administration of restricting Congress\u2019s access to SARs, citing a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-treasury-department\">Treasury Department<\/a> rule that allows Congressional staff to review such materials in a Treasury reading room. They are barred from making copies of the documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommittee Republicans are investigating whether this change in longstanding policy is motivated by efforts to shield Hunter Biden and potentially President Biden from scrutiny,\u201d the letter read.<\/p>\n<p> Refusing Release <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/07\/GettyImages-1241180168.jpg\"><\/a> Ranking member Rep. James Comer Jr. (R-KY) speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Reform hearing on gun violence in Washington on June 8, 2022. (Andrew Harnik-Pool\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite Treasury\u2019s assertion in the press that it \u2018provides SARs to Congress in a manner that enables<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top House Republican is demanding Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen release records on Hunter Biden\u2019s foreign business activities, alleging that the Biden administration\u2019s reluctance to release such details suggest an effort to shield the Biden family from scrutiny. In a letter on July 6, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), a ranking member on the House Committee [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1542213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}