Home Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan despatched a closing warning letter Friday to the lawyer of Michael Nellis, the CEO of a political consulting agency that employs the daughter of New York State Supreme Courtroom Justice Juan Merchan, who’s overseeing former President Donald Trump’s hush cash trial.
The Each day Caller first obtained a duplicate of the letter, which comes after Jordan despatched a subpoena to Nellis in late August, after he didn’t adjust to the committee and their inquiries relating to any potential cooperation between Nellis’s agency and people attempting to prosecute Trump. The decide’s daughter, Loren Merchan, is the president of Genuine Campaigns, which represents Democrats comparable to Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff, who was the pinnacle of Trump’s first impeachment trial. Jordan has additionally pointed out that the agency has acquired $9 million from Democrat campaigns. That includes $2 million from the Biden-Harris marketing campaign in 2020.
“On August 28, 2024, the Committee on the Judiciary issued your shopper, Michael Nellis, a subpoena for 2 classes of paperwork regarding the Committee’s oversight of the Manhattan District Legal professional’s political prosecution of President Trump. On the subpoena’s return date, September 13, 2024, you despatched a letter on Mr. Nellis’s behalf outlining your objections to the subpoena,” Jordan wrote within the letter.
In that August letter, Jordan referred to as for Nellis to take a seat down for a deposition and in addition signal a sworn affidavit saying that the agency has had no communication with Choose Merchan. Nellis has since called Jordan’s investigation “absurd and fully false.”
“Nevertheless, this has not stopped MAGA world conspiracy theorists from harassing our staff and sending loss of life threats to a few of our households,” he wrote.
In the meantime, on this new letter to Nellis, Jordan explains that the committee is entitled to subpoena for the related data and doesn’t violate the primary modification.
“These objections mirror considerations that your shopper has raised, and the Committee has addressed, in earlier correspondence. The objections to the subpoena are unfounded and unpersuasive, and don’t excuse your shopper’s noncompliance with the subpoena. The Committee writes to overrule your objections and to supply Mr. Nellis a closing alternative to adjust to the subpoena,” he continued. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Jim Jordan, James Comer Send Final Warning To Merrick Garland Before Contempt Proceedings)
READ THE LETTER HERE:
(DAILY CALLER OBTAINED) — … by Henry Rodgers
“Individually, latest marketing campaign filings by the Harris marketing campaign seem to contradict statements Mr. Nellis beforehand made to the Committee, and he has didn’t certify these statements. This data raises the prospect that he has made false statements to the Committee, that are topic to felony penalties underneath Part 1001 of Title 18 of the USA Code,” Jordan added. (RELATED: ‘Election Interference’: Bragg Case Gag Order Puts Unprecedented Limitations On Trump Campaign)
Jordan referred to as for a response from Nellis and his lawyer by 9:00 a.m. on Oct. 11.
