{"id":15909,"date":"2025-11-21T17:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jordan-seeks-info-from-banks-in-probe-of-jack-smith\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:02:40","slug":"jordan-seeks-info-from-banks-in-probe-of-jack-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/jordan-seeks-info-from-banks-in-probe-of-jack-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan seeks info from banks in probe of Jack Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan is asking major banks to hand over communications and materials related to former special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s far-reaching investigations into President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citi and Morgan Stanley are among more than a dozen financial institutions receiving letters from the Ohio Republican, who wants documents relating to requests for financial data from federal law enforcement officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the Biden-Harris Administration, the Department of Justice subpoenaed financial institutions \u2026 for financial records of private customer data in its politicized investigations into President Trump,\u201d Jordan wrote in the letters obtained by Blue Light News. \u201cWe write to request relevant materials in [your] possession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith was appointed by then-President Joe Biden to investigate Trump\u2019s retention of classified documents and efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election \u2013 the latter of which has prompted renewed outrage among Republicans after revelations that Smith\u2019s office requested GOP senators\u2019 private phone data without their knowledge. Republicans see that move as an overreach and the investigation itself as a politicization of the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan was already conducting his own investigation into Smith\u2019s work, including asking Smith to sit for a transcribed interview with his committee. Smith has countered he will answer lawmakers\u2019 questions in a public forum, after he has the opportunity to view his records from the Justice Department. The two men have not yet reached an agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Jordan has just recently discovered that two years worth of his own phone records were also subpoenaed by the Biden DOJ \u2013 though the legal document showing the seizure was dated before Smith\u2019s appointment in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thing that got me was the length of time,\u201d Jordan said in an interview Friday. \u201cIt&#8217;s just creepy, and it&#8217;s ridiculous \u2026 I want to know who signed off on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said he had not yet decided if he would call Biden\u2019s attorney general, Merrick Garland, to sit for an interview with his committee, too.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives with JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley did not immediately return a request for comment about Jordan\u2019s Friday letter. Spokespeople for Bank for America and Citi declined to comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan is asking major banks to hand over communications and materials related to former special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s far-reaching investigations into President Donald Trump. Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citi and Morgan Stanley are among more than a dozen financial institutions receiving letters from the Ohio Republican, who wants documents relating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}