House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has issued a subpoena to the Bank of America as part of his panel’s ongoing investigation into how financial institutions handled customer information concerning the riot at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

Jordan penned a letter to CEO Brian Moynihan, asserting that his financial institution had not fulfilled the committee’s voluntary request for documents concerning inquiries into what information was shared with the FBI in the aftermath of the Capitol riot.

“On May 25, 2023, we requested your voluntary cooperation with our oversight efforts to determine the extent to which financial institutions, such as Bank of America Corporation (BoA), worked with the FBI to collect Americans’ data. In response, the Committee has received 223 pages of documents responsive to our original requests. However, to date, BoA has refused to provide the Committee and Select Subcommittee with the filing it turned over to the FBI,” the letter said, according to the Washington Examiner.

Jordan said he was concerned about information the bank provided to the FBI “voluntarily and without any legal process,” adding if the bank had “lawful authority” to do so, then Congress ought to “consider reforms that adequately protect Americans’ information.”

“Indeed, if such a lawful authority exists, as BoA asserts, for BoA to freely share private financial information without any legal process or specific nexus to criminality, Congress has a responsibility to consider reforms that adequately protect Americans’ information,” the letter said. “It should not be the case that federal law enforcement has carte blanche access to Americans’ financial information by deeming a transaction or class of transactions as ‘suspicious’ or otherwise.”

It added: “For that reason, to inform such legislation, it is critical that the Committee understand the full extent of the information-sharing between BoA and the FBI, including review of BoA’s ‘filing’ that it emailed to the FBI.”

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) authorized the formation of a committee to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building, then stacked it with Democrats and two anti-Trump Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, neither of whom are still in Congress.

The Examiner noted further:

The investigation into Bank of America by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, of which Jordan is also chairman, was opened in May, with the panel originally giving the bank a June 8 deadline to provide the requested documents. The inquiry is one of several investigations related to the government’s handling of the Capitol riot by House Republicans.