House Republicans are calling on Bank of America to come clean over whether it shared customer information with federal investigators looking into the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
— voluntarily and without any legal process — with a list of individuals who had made transactions in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area with a BoA credit or debit card between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021.”Analyst George Hill, who said Bank of America compiled a list of customers who used their debit and credit card transactions in that time and had purchased a firearm.
They added, “This information appears to have had no individualized nexus to particularized criminal conduct, but was rather a data dump of BoA customers’ transactions over a three-day period. This information undoubtedly included private details about BoA customers who had nothing at all to do with the events of Jan. 6. Even worse, BoA specifically provided information about Americans who exercised their Second Amendment right to purchase a firearm.
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