JPMorgan Chase denied claims that it “debanked” former Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback over his conservative and religious views, according to a report Thursday.
The bank said it did not receive information it had requested from Brownback before it closed the account, according to an October 2022 letter viewed by Reuters.
Brownback, a Republican who chairs the National Committee for Religious Freedom, has accused JPMorgan of shuttering the account in 2022 on religious grounds.
He alleged the nation’s largest bank refuses business to conservatives and religious groups.
“We don’t discontinue client relationships because of a religious or political affiliation, and we didn’t with your account,” Larry Thode, a managing director at JPMorgan, wrote in a previously unreported letter from October 2022.