Republicans quietly subpoena Bank of America for Hunter Biden’s business associates’ bank records

Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin revealed in a blistering letter that Republicans on the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed a Hunter Biden associate seeking years of financial information.

Raskin (D-Md.) accused Republican panel chair Rep. Kentucky’s James Comer of running a “political dragnet” to “penetrate” John R. Walker’s private records through the sweeping subpoena. He says a trio of subpoenas are searching “all the financial records” of three individuals over a “staggering 14-year period.”

Raskin seems to have heard about the subpoena from the majority, but he rebuked Comer in his letterdated Sunday, before a customary notice period of 48 hours has passed.

And he accuses Comer of intruding into private data from Walker, who was involved in a joint venture with Chinese company CEFC Energy, part of what Comer casts as a web of entanglements benefiting Biden relatives.

These include “how much he pays for his child’s dance lessons, when he’s been to the hospital, how many parking tickets he’s paid, how often he eats at Papa John’s or drinks coffee at Starbucks, and how much he spends on groceries at Safeway,” according to Raskin, who revealed the subpoena included a joint family checking account.

He said the letter forced a document production of thousands of pages of private financial information, including ten years of current account bank statements.

Raskin called the subpoena “wildly exaggerated.” He also noted that Comer had sought documents from the “estranged mother of Hunter Biden’s child” who was suing him for paternity and child support, a reference to Lunden Alexis Roberts.

Bank of America had turned over a “significant amount of material,” a source said CNN.

Walker served in the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and has previously been identified in a Senate Republican Report on Hunter Biden.

Tony Bobulinski, who accused members of the Biden family of corruption and appeared at a presidential debate in the fall of 2020, identified Walker as “very, very close” to the Biden family. He said he helped develop a deal with CEFC China Energy.

Raskin then accused Oversight Republicans of trying to “bury” Trump tax information — after Democrats gained the upper hand on the Supreme Court following a multi-year saga to obtain years of tax information on former President Donald Trump.

The panel finally received and distributed six years of Trump’s tax information in December 2022, weeks before handing over the gavel. The documents showed that Trump paid no taxes in 2020 because his income fell.

He was referring to information that foreign governments, including Saudi Arabia, China and China, “spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Trump property” while Trump was in office.

He then accused Republicans of acting “in coordination” with Trump’s lawyers “to bury evidence of such misconduct.”

He then referred to an email from Trump attorney Patrick Strawbridge on January 19, 2023, after the GOP took over, to Mazars’ accounting firm, which had submitted documents to Congress under a court agreement.

“I don’t know the status of Mazars [sic] production, but it is my understanding that the committee has no interest in forcing Mazars to complete it and is willing to release it from further obligations under the settlement agreement,” Strawbridge wrote, according to an email quoted by Raskin.

Comer has previously announced a widespread investigation into Biden’s family Business transactionsand wrote in a press release last month, “If President Biden is compromised by deals with foreign adversaries and they influence his decision-making, it is a threat to national security.”

The White House has repeatedly said that Biden had no knowledge of business deals by his relatives.