The Mystery Behind Chase Debanking Is Becoming Clear

As previously reported, in mid-July 2023, JP Morgan Chase Bank canceled all my business bank accounts, along with the personal accounts of our CEO, CFO and their respective spouses and children. This is despite a new Florida law that that specifically prohibits financial institutions from denying or canceling services based on political or religious beliefs.

What we’re seeing is the weaponization of finance, where people whose views or actions go against the official narrative are cut off from basic financial services. This is the social credit system at work. In short, the debanking of employees and their families is a social control tactic to make people start policing each other by punishing associations.

While Chase Bank has refused to give us a reason for the account closures, a representative told reporters that closures are typically only done for anti-money laundering purposes.^1,2

However, no money laundering charges have ever been leveled against me, and in a real money laundering case, they seize your accounts outright. They don’t give you a month to take your business elsewhere. So, insinuating that our accounts were canceled due to money laundering appears to be an attempt to disparage and slander us.

Internal documents from the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CISA), obtained from an ongoing lawsuit against the U.S. government, now helps shed light on why Chase Bank targeted my business.

What Was Chase Bank Doing at a Censorship Meeting?

As it turns out, a representative of Chase Bank (name redacted) was present during a March 1, 2022, Cybersecurity Advisory Committee Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Misinformation & Disinformation (MDM) Subcommittee meeting.^3,4 In addition to JP Morgan Chase, other attendees included representatives from:⁵

According to the meeting minutes,⁶ Laura Dehmlow, section chief for the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), briefed the attendees about the FBI’s roles and responses in combating foreign influence. Dehmlow also warned that “subversive information” on social media could undermine public support for the U.S. government, and that “media infrastructure” needed to be held accountable.

One of the attendees asked Dehmlow to confirm that the mis- and disinformation under the FBI/FTIF’s purview was only related to foreign criminal activity, and that the “FBI does not perform narrative or content-based analysis.”

The attendee then suggested that CISA “might have a role based on the subcommittee helping to define the narrative so the ‘whole of government’ approach could be leveraged.”

The committee members went on to discuss what the government’s strategic approach related to misinformation and disinformation ought to be, how best to organize information sharing between the public and private sector, and how to collaborate across channels.

We now know that a formalized process was implemented that allowed government officials to log into a special portal where they could flag social media content for removal.⁷

The committee also sought to identify entities that had “done appropriate social media monitoring for the government.” We now have proof that CISA partnered with a censorship consortium called the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), later rebranded as the Virality Project, to illegally censor Americans. I detailed this relationship in “How the Virality Project Threatens Our Freedom.”

What was Chase Bank doing at this meeting? Why was a major bank included in a meeting in which they were trying to tease out the best way for government to censor Americans?

With everything we now know about CISA’s domestic censorship activities, could the answer be that debanking “domestic threat actors” was on the table from the start? Did CISA have a hand in the bank’s decision to close my business accounts, and those of key employees and their families?

Chase Bank Has Been a CISA Cybersecurity Member Since 2021

A December 1, 2021, press release⁸ also lists JP Morgan Chase chief information officer Lori Beer as a member of CISA’s brand-new cybersecurity advisory committee, launched that month. According to that press release:⁹

“… the Agency’s new Cybersecurity Advisory Committee … will advise and provide recommendations to the Director on policies, programs, planning, and training to enhance the nation’s cyber defense …

The Committee will examine and make recommendations on a variety of topics collectively aimed at strengthening CISA and more broadly reshaping the cyber ecosystem to favor defense.

These topics include growing the cyber workforce; reducing systemic risk to national critical functions; igniting the power of the Hacker community to help defend the nation; combating misinformation and disinformation impacting the security of critical infrastructure; and transforming public-private partnership into true operational collaboration.”

So, Chase Bank has been working with a key government agency involved in the unconstitutional censorship of Americans for nearly two years. Mastercard is also included in this CISA advisory committee. Other notable members of this 23-person committee include: