
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seems to be playing a much larger role in the Obama administration’s Operation Choke Point these days. But you wouldn’t know that from the gentle questioning of CFPB Director Richard Cordray on Capitol Hill.
by Michael Patrick Leahy6 Mar 2015, 5:11 AM PST0

The Obama Administration’s “Operation Choke Point” is being used to target yet another legal industry: the tobacco industry.
by Michael Patrick Leahy4 Mar 2015, 5:43 PM PST0

A gun dealer in Hawkins, Wisconsin says the federal government forced the Heritage Credit Union to close his recently opened bank account because he’s in the business of legally selling guns. The United States Consumer Coalition calls this just the latest example of the extralegal overreach of Operation Choke Point, the Obama administration’s effort to put industries it doesn’t like–especially gun dealers and pay day lenders–out of business.
by Michael Patrick Leahy14 Jan 2015, 5:46 AM PST0