The House Oversight and Accountability Committee chairman is accusing the Treasury Department of obstructing the panel’s probe into the Biden family by stonewalling repeated requests related to presidential son Hunter Biden.
Rep. James Comer, Kentucky Republican, is claiming that officials have refused to hand over a tranche of reports flagging Mr. Biden’s potentially nefarious transactions and accused them of operating in bad faith.
“Given the amount of time that has passed since our initial request and Treasury’s inability to provide a projected timeframe when the SARs will be produced, the Committee believes Treasury may be delaying its production to hinder our investigation and operating in bad faith,” he wrote. In the May letter, Mr. Comer cited media reports claiming that “more than 150 of Hunter Biden and the Biden network’s international business transactions have generated suspicious activity reports by U.S. banks for further review by the Treasury Department to determine if there is illegal activity or a threat to national security.”
In response, department officials said it would “identify potentially responsive documents” and “make determinations concerning how to accommodate legitimate legislative needs while also protecting Executive Branch interests, including law enforcement needs.”
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