A top House Republican investigator set a new hearing this week to blast the Treasury Department for failing to hand over suspicious activity reports linked to Hunter Biden following more than a year of the Biden administration dragging its feet.
Rep. James Comer , the new chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee for the 118th Congress, spent much of 2022 and early 2023 repeatedly pushing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to hand over the suspicious bank activity reports linked to Biden family businesses as he argued that the Treasury Department’s meager responses continued to stonewall his efforts to get answers on the financial transactions of President Joe Biden's son linked to China, Russia, and elsewhere.
Comer wrote to Yellen in January 2023, again requesting access to these SARs, arguing that “during the 117th Congress, the Department of the Treasury refused our requests to provide information about the Biden family.” The Republican sent a follow-up letter to the Treasury Department last month, contending that the “Treasury has not provided the Committee any SARs to date” and claiming that the department has “made several excuses for Treasury’s delay regarding this production.
“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, arguing that"safeguarding Bank Secrecy Act information is critical to law enforcement efforts to investigate money laundering, terrorist financing, and other illicit financial activity.”
The renewed call for access to the suspicious activity records comes after a Washington Examiner investigation in 2022 found Hunter Biden disclosed in text messages to a woman named Eva, the go-between who served as his primary point of contact for the UberGFE escort service, that his accounts were frozen temporarily after his attempted payments to her"girls," who had Russian-linked email accounts, raised a"red flag" with his bank.
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