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Revision as of 21:53, June 20, 2016
Operation Choke Point is a 2012 program started by Obama's Justice Department that uses the FDIC to pressure banks not to extend credit or other financial services to certain industries with high instances of fraud, such as pornography. Under that guise, the program is used as a backdoor to punish industries that Obama disagreed with, such as the firearms industry.
Congress would investigate and rebuke the findings but little has been done to stop it and it is still operational. [1]
Merchants targeted are denied bank loans as federal regulators flag them as “high risk” for fraud. In the firearms industry, that amounts to infringing on 2nd Amendment rights. Some companies targeted by Operation Choke Point;
- Ammunition sales
- Firearms sales
- Payday loans
- Money transfer networks
- Debt consolidation
- Online gambling
- Pornography
- Escort services