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| https://riggleman.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-denver-riggleman-signs-letter-protect-americans-personal | Congressman Denver Riggleman Signs Letter to Protect Americans' Personal Information from Disclosure in Democrats' Impeachment Probe | 2019-11-22 | 2019 | 2019-11 | Republican | House | VA | Denver Riggleman | R000611 | riggleman.house.gov | legacy | Congressman Denver Riggleman andthe House Financial Services Committee sent aletterto Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) expressing concern with the process by which documents,containing private American citizens' personal financial information,may be transmitted to the House Judiciary Committee as part of the ongoing impeachment investigation. These documents were obtained through subpoenas issued by Chairwoman Waters for President Trump's financial records to advance her long-standing interest in impeaching the President. However, none of the documents received to date are related to the President or his financial records. The Chair issued these subpoenas under the pretext of an investigation into financial industry compliance with banking statutes and regulations. However, Republicans remind the Chair that the committee advanced and, in October, the House passed the first major reform of the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering regulations since 2001 without asingle mentionof the records obtained by the Chair. These broad subpoenas issued to Deutsche Bank and Capital One, among others, covered records related to the President and his family, including records of financial transactions related to the President's 13-year-old son and ten grandchildren, the youngest of whom is three months old. In addition to these invasive subpoenas, the Chair has obtained highly sensitive records from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). However, some of these records were requested and provided based on mistaken identities, meaning,the Committee now has in its possession private American citizens' personal financial records simply because they happen to share a surname with members of the President's family. As one of the six investigating committees instructed to transfer records to the Judiciary Committee by Democrats' H. Res. 660, Congressman Riggleman is alarmed by the prospect that these private citizens' sensitive information could now be furnished to the Judiciary Committee and subsequently released.That is why hesigned the letter to the Chairwomanraising concerns and urging her to consult the Republican members of the committee before turning over these documents and potentially endangering American citizens' most personal and highly sensitive information. You can read the full letter signed by Congressman Riggleman and the Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee here. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |