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FIRST ON FOX: Ministry of Justice subpoenaed House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan's private 2022 phone records, seeking the Ohio Republican's phone records over a more than two-year period.
The subpoena obtained by Fox News Digital shows that a federal prosecutor who later worked on special counsel Jack Smith's investigation on Jan. 6 ordered Verizon to turn over telephone data, also known as toll road records, starting on Jan. 1, 2020.
The request appears to be the most extensive of the publicly known subpoenas targeting senators, current and former Chamber members during “Arctic Freeze,” the investigation that led Smith to bring election-related charges against President Donald Trump.
Rep. Jim Jordan leaves a House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Smith began work as a special prosecutor only seven months after the subpoena was issued, meaning the request predated his tenure at the Justice Department.
The subpoena for documents against Jordan appears to be one of the first known subpoenas in the Arctic freeze investigation and was issued while Jordan served as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice Department.
The toll road records did not include the contents of Jordan's phone calls or messages, but did include details about when the calls and messages were sent and received, and with whom Jordan communicated. The subpoena sought records of three more phone numbers, which were redacted. It included a one-year ban order signed by a D.C. magistrate judge.
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Verizon provided documents to the Justice Department in response to the subpoena, a source told Fox News Digital.
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Verizon said in a statement that it is coordinating with the House and Senate Judiciary committees are “working tirelessly” to gather information about subpoenas affecting lawmakers.
“As part of our investigation, we discovered new information about Chairman Jordan and shared it with him as soon as possible,” Verizon spokesman Rich Young said in a statement. “We are committed to restoring trust through transparency and will continue to work with Congress and the Administration as they examine these issues and consider reforms to expand notice protections.”
