In a letter released Monday, Illinois Republican Rep. Rodney Davis, the ranking minority member of the House Administration Committee, called out Pelosi for refusing repeatedly over the past year to cooperate with their requests for information from House officers who answer directly to the speaker’s office.

Democrats are determined to try to make Jan. 6 the equivalent of Pearl Harbor Day and 9/11 rolled into one, and take criminal action against political opponents who don’t cooperate with a sham committee investigating it, yet Pelosi feels free to withhold information about her own decisions related to the day.

“There is irony in the fact that at the same time House Democrats are holding witnesses in criminal contempt of Congress for raising genuine questions of legal privilege, you continue to obstruct Republican access to House records relating to the security preparedness of the Capitol complex,” Davis wrote.

Specifically, the Davis letter asks Pelosi what decisions she made with the House Sergeant at Arms and the Capitol Police leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, when Congress was to certify the votes of the Electoral College that made Joe Biden president; what Pelosi did that day; and why House officers she controls are withholding information Republicans are seeking.

“If you are truly interested in working with Republicans to improve the Capitol security posture, I demand that you direct all House officers immediately to stop obstructing our oversight,” Davis wrote.

https://www.westernjournal.com/house-republicans-turn-jan-6-tables-nancy-pelosi-major-accusation/

JACKSONVILLE (CBSMiami) – A group of residents were led away by police, one in handcuffs, from a room where Gov. Ron DeSantis was scheduled to give a news conference Tuesday morning.

It began when an organizer asked Ben Frazier, community organizer and president of Jacksonville’s Northside Coalition, to leave the room at the Florida Department of Health- Duval County. But Frazier held firm to his stance that he had every right to be there.

“We’re here to hold the governor accountable,” said Frazier.

“That’s not the proper way to do that,” replied the organizer.

“What’s the proper way, sir, not to follow our First Amendment rights. Public expression, sir, it’s critical to our democracy. This governor has stood against our rights to protest and to assemble peaceably. It is wrong,” said Frazier.

Frazier pointed out there is a lawsuit filed against the DeSantis administration over the protest laws.

“We have a right our First Amendment rights, we can express them peaceably. And that is what we are doing here. This governor is, this governor is an enemy of the people,” said Frazier.

“You too are an enemy of you. Yes, sir. You are you’re attempting to stop us from gathering peaceably in a public building. That, sir, is appalling and absurd. This is a public meeting. This is a public official. This is a public building. We have a right to be here and we are not moving,” Frazier added.

Frazier then demanded to see the governor.

“We are not moving. Now, where is the governor, is he going to run and hide or is he going to face the people. Go get him, we are waiting for him,” he said.

Moments later a representative of the governor’s office came in and tried to address the situation. She said the governor would be glad to have a private conversation with them, but their actions were disrupting the start of the press conference.

“We would like to get something arranged with you guys so we can have this conversation, make sure that it’s constructive. So let’s go ahead and do that. Let’s get us back on to the press conference, please. We’d like to get started,” she said.

She said they couldn’t start the press conference until they left.

“We are happy to interact with you guys but they have to leave. We’re having a private press conference, we don’t allow the members of the public to come to the press conference,” she added.

After going back and forth with the group, Frazier was put in handcuffs and led out of the room which was then cleared.

Frazier was arrested but released on his own recognizance.

https://miami.cbslocal.com/2022/01/04/governor-enemy-people-disruption-ron-desantis-news-conference/

STOCKHOLM — A three-year-old money-laundering scandal continues to cast a dark shadow over Sweden’s banking sector.

On Tuesday, the former chief executive of Swedbank, one of Sweden’s big three lenders, was charged with fraud relating to statements she made in 2018 and 2019 about anti-money-laundering controls at her bank.

Amid media reports that dirty money had been flowing through Swedbank’s Estonian operations, Birgitte Bonnesen — the CEO — sought to play down the concerns, telling investors and journalists that the bank had the situation under control.

In reality, as later investigations by Swedish authorities and lawyers appointed by Swedbank itself showed, the bank’s anti-money-laundering regime had been too lax and had allowed money to flow from countries including Russia into Europe via Estonia without adequate checks.

Sweden’s Economic Crime Authority said in a statement accompanying its decision to prosecute Bonnesen that comments she made in 2018 and 2019 broke Swedish law.

“The former CEO of the bank intentionally or through gross negligence … disseminated misleading information about the bank’s measures to prevent, detect, and report suspicions of money laundering in Swedbank’s operations in Estonia,” lead prosecutor Thomas Langrot said.

Bonnesen denies the charges, her lawyer Per E. Samuelson told Swedish news agency TT.

https://www.politico.eu/article/former-swedish-bank-ceo-faces-fraud-charges-in-money-laundering-case/amp/