{"id":14262,"date":"2024-01-19T01:46:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T01:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/feds-suggested-banks-search-transactions-for-terms-like-biden-antifa-and-more-after-jan-6-sources\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T01:46:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T01:46:51","slug":"feds-suggested-banks-search-transactions-for-terms-like-biden-antifa-and-more-after-jan-6-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/19\/feds-suggested-banks-search-transactions-for-terms-like-biden-antifa-and-more-after-jan-6-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds suggested banks search transactions for terms like \u2018Biden,\u2019 \u2018Antifa\u2019 and more after Jan. 6: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
\n
Read this article for free!<\/div>\n
Plus get unlimited access to thousands of articles, videos and more with your free account!<\/div>\n
Please enter a valid email address.<\/span><\/div>\n
By entering your email, you are agreeing to Fox News Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive. To access the content, check your email and follow the instructions provided.\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

EXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Federal investigators suggested banks search private financial transactions using terms beyond \u2018Trump\u2019 and \u2018MAGA\u2019 after Jan. 6, 2021. Additional suggested terms included \u2018Biden,\u2019 \u2018Kamala,\u2019 \u2018Antifa,\u2019 and more, sources familiar told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital on Wednesday reported that the Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Stakeholder Integration and Engagement in the Strategic Operations of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, distributed materials to financial institutions that outlined \u2018typologies\u2019 of \u2018various persons of interest\u2019 and provided the banks with \u2018suggested search terms and Merchant Category Codes for identifying transactions on behalf of federal law enforcement.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sources familiar told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the search terms, like \u2018MAGA\u2019 and \u2018Trump\u2019 were generated by a bank and used to help them identify suspicious transactions when reviewing customer transactional information. It is unclear which bank generated the search terms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sources said FinCEN then shared those terms with other banks to help those financial institutions to comply with their own suspicious activity reports.<\/p>\n

But beyond the terms identified by the House Judiciary Committee, the unnamed bank generated other terms, which FinCEN shared with other banks, the sources told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The source said the additional search terms included: \u2018White Power,\u2019 \u2018Camp Auschwitz,\u2019 \u2018Antifa,\u2019 \u2018Proud B,\u2019 \u2018Storm the,\u2019 \u2018Capitol,\u2019 \u2018Groyper Army,\u2019 \u2018Threepers,\u2019 \u2018boogaloo,\u2019 \u2018civil war,\u2019 \u2018last sons,\u2019 \u2018kill,\u2019 \u2018shoot,\u2019 \u2018gun,\u2019 \u2018death,\u2019 \u2018murder,\u2019 \u2018Biden,\u2019 \u2018Kamala,\u2019 \u2018Pelosi,\u2019 \u2018Schumer,\u2019 and \u2018Pence.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sources said the distribution of the search terms, including \u2018MAGA\u2019 and \u2018Trump\u2019 was done during the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The initial terms \u2018MAGA\u2019 and \u2018Trump\u2019 were revealed in a letter sent by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan to a former director of FinCEN. Fox News Digital first reported on that letter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The committee\u2019s investigation also revealed that FinCEN distributed slides, prepared by Key Bank, to other banks to explain how they could use merchant category codes (MCC) to detect customers whose transactions may reflect \u2018potential active shooters, and who may include dangerous International Terrorists\/ Domestic Terrorists\/ Homegrown Violence Extremists (\u2018Lone Wolves\u2019).\u2019<\/p>\n

Jordan said the slide instructs financial institutions to query for transactions using certain MCC codes like \u20183484: Small Arms,\u2019 \u20185091: Sporting and Recreational Goods and Supplies,\u2019 and the keywords \u2018Cabela\u2019s,\u2019 \u2018Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods\u2019 and \u2018Bass Pro Shops,\u2019 among others.<\/p>\n

Key Bank declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods, Bass Pro Shops and Cabela\u2019s did not respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A source familiar with the documents held by the House Judiciary Committee told Fox News Digital that while Jan. 6, 2021, was the \u2018impetus\u2019 for the queries and searches, none of the documents the committee has obtained reveal any specific time frames or limitations for banks searching customer transactions with the terms. The source said the federal government used the information for investigations beyond Jan. 6.<\/p>\n

It is unclear if the terms are still being used by banks to search private transactions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Despite these transactions having no apparent criminal nexus \u2014 and, in fact, relate to Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights \u2014 FinCEN seems to have adopted a characterization of these Americans as potential threat actors,\u2019 Jordan wrote. \u2018This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans\u2019 private transactions is alarming and raises serious doubts about FinCEN\u2019s respect for fundamental liberties.\u2019<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday and obtained by Fox News Digital, Jordan requested a transcribed interview with the senior private sector partner for outreach in the Strategic Partner Engagement Section at the FBI.<\/p>\n

Jordan said the committee has received testimony indicating that Bank of America provided the FBI \u2018voluntarily and without any legal process\u2019 with a list of individuals who made transactions in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area using a Bank of America credit or debit card between Jan. 5 and Jan. 7, 2021.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital first reported on that portion of the committee\u2019s investigation last year. Bank of America, in November, said the bank \u2018followed all applicable laws\u2019 in its interactions with the government. The bank noted that the Treasury Department on Jan. 15, 2021, \u2018shared information regarding potential criminal activity that could disrupt the upcoming inauguration.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We have cooperated with the committee as they evaluate whether the laws we complied with should be changed,\u2019 Bank of America said on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But in the Wednesday letter, Jordan stated that when that list was later brought to the attention of the FBI, the former section chief of the Domestic Terrorism Operations Section, Steve Jensen, acted to \u2018pull\u2019 that Bank of America information from FBI systems because \u2018the leads lacked allegations of federal criminal conduct.\u2019<\/p>\n

Jordan said the committees obtained documents that show FBI personnel \u2018made contact with and provided Bank of America with specific search query terms, indicating that it was \u2018interested in all financial relationships\u2019 of BoA customers transacting in Washington, D.C., and customers who had made \u2018ANY historical purchase\u2019 of a firearm, or who had purchased a hotel, Airbnb, or airline travel within a given date range.\u2019<\/p>\n

Jordan is requesting that the former FinCEN official and an FBI official appear before his committee and the Weaponization Subcommittee for transcribed interviews to aid in the panels\u2019 oversight investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read this article for free! Plus get unlimited access to thousands of articles, videos and more with your free account! Please enter a valid email address. By entering your email, you are agreeing to Fox News Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, which includes our Notice of Financial Incentive. To access the content, check your <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}