{"id":1632027,"date":"2022-09-03T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632027"},"modified":"2022-09-03T14:04:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T18:04:53","slug":"biden-administration-refuses-gop-request-for-hunter-biden-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-refuses-gop-request-for-hunter-biden-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Refuses GOP Request for Hunter Biden Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-administration-refuses-gop-request-for-hunter-biden-records%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=1632027&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>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is refusing a request from a top lawmaker for records of Biden family financial activity flagged as suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>An official with the U.S. Department of Treasury told Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-james-comer\">James Comer<\/a> (R-Ky.) that his request would not be filled because it was not made by a committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department responds to requests for BSA information from congressional committees of appropriate jurisdiction in a manner consistent with the statute and its implementing regulations, which mandate protection of highly sensitive reports from the risk of unauthorized use and disclosure,\u201d Jonathan Davidson, the department\u2019s assistant secretary for legislative affairs, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22274780-treasury-letter-to-comer\">a Sept. 2 missive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BSA stands for the Bank Secrecy Act.<\/p>\n<p>Comer, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, has been trying for months to obtain records under the act.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote in May to\u00a0Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, a Biden appointee, requesting copies of all Suspicious Activity Reports for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hunter-biden\">Hunter Biden<\/a>, the president\u2019s son, and James Biden, the president\u2019s brother, after reports emerged that transactions with which they were involved were flagged through such reports, lodged with the Treasury Department\u2019s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.<\/p>\n<p>One report said that more than 150 international transactions tied to either Hunter or James Biden were flagged by U.S. banks.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the Treasury Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/house-republicans-seek-information-on-hunter-bidens-finances-11653480339\">told the Wall Street Journal<\/a> that the department has made the reports \u201cavailable for every request we\u2019ve received, regardless of party, and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A new protocol for members wanting to view reports was developed after Joe Biden took office in 2021, the department also said.<\/p>\n<p>Comer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/top-house-republican-presses-yellen-to-share-records-of-hunter-bidens-foreign-business-dealings_4582110.html\">sent another letter in July<\/a>, saying Treasury officials in a June 13 phone call told Republicans on the Oversight panel that they would not provide the reports being sought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTreasury\u2019s actions call for investigation and raise new questions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is refusing a request from a top lawmaker for records of Biden family financial activity flagged as suspicious. An official with the U.S. Department of Treasury told Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) that his request would not be filled because it was not made by a committee. \u201cThe Department responds to requests [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"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-1632027","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\/1632027","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632027\/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=1632027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}