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. 3

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 Oct

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