The Treasury Department instructed the House Oversight Committee it will flip over sure financial institution exercise stories associated to the panel’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation, based on a letter shared with NCS.
“The Department of the Treasury (Treasury) plans to fully cooperate with the Committee and intends to provide all information responsive to your request in a timely manner and compliant with the law,” a letter from the Treasury Department despatched to the committee on Friday reads.
The financial institution information, often called Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), embrace delicate info and require a selected course of for the way they get shared. Such stories aren’t conclusive and don’t essentially point out wrongdoing. Financial establishments file thousands and thousands of suspicious exercise stories every year, and few result in legislation enforcement inquiries.
While accounting for the mandatory protections, the Treasury Department assured the House panel it “will work alongside other relevant federal agencies to deliver on your request as thoroughly as possible.”
It was not instantly clear what info the monetary information would possibly comprise.
The committee has already made different information public which have been turned over as a part of its probe, together with records turned over by the Epstein estate and the Department of Justice.
House Oversight Chairman James Comer stated in a press release in response to the letter, “We will follow Epstein’s money trail to ensure transparency and accountability for the survivors and the American people.”