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OPERATION CHOKE POINT: Tipton Questions FDIC Cutting Off Bank Accounts Gun Stores, Small Businesses
ColoradoPeakPolitics ^ | March 24, 2015

Posted on 03/25/2015 8:39:37 AM PDT by george76

The head of the FDIC faced tough grilling today from members of a House Financial Services subcommittee including U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton on a rogue policy that essentially directed banks not to deal with businesses the Obama administration found objectionable.

Dubbed “Operation Choke Point,” the Justice Department essentially directed the nation’s top financial regulator to intimidate banks into cutting off accounts or doing any business at all with a list of 30 different types small business owners.

The list included gun shops, ammunition dealers

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Tipton also got the old DC song and dance when he asked if the federal employees responsible for the mess were going to get a slap on the wrist or be terminated.

(Excerpt) Read more at coloradopeakpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: ammunitiondealers; banglist; chokepoint; drosselstelle; fdic; gunshops; scotttipton; tipton
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OPERATION CHOKE POINT: Tipton Questions FDIC on Cutting Off Bank Accounts of Gun Stores, Small Businesses

1 posted on 03/25/2015 8:39:37 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

Some merchant categories that the FDIC had listed until July 2014 as being associated with high-risk activity include, but are not limited to (until the FDIC revised the original policy in July 2014):[9]

Ammunition Sales
Cable Box De-scramblers
Coin Dealers
Credit Card Schemes
Credit Repair Services
Dating Services
Debt Consolidation Scams
Drug Paraphernalia
Cable Box De-scramblers
Coin Dealers
Credit Card Schemes
Credit Repair Services
Dating Services
Debt Consolidation Scams
Drug Paraphernalia
Escort Services
Firearms Sales
Fireworks Sales
Get Rich Products
Government Grants
Home-Based Charities
Life-Time Guarantees
Life-Time Memberships
Cable Box De-scramblers
Coin Dealers
Credit Card Schemes
Credit Repair Services
Dating Services
Debt Consolidation Scams
Drug Paraphernalia
Escort Services
Firearms Sales
Fireworks Sales
Get Rich Products
Government Grants
Home-Based Charities
Life-Time Guarantees
Life-Time Memberships
Lottery Sales
Mailing Lists/Personal Info
Money Transfer Networks
On-line Gambling
Payday Loans
Pharmaceutical Sales
Ponzi Schemes
Pornography[10]
Cable Box De-scramblers
Coin Dealers
Credit Card Schemes
Credit Repair Services
Dating Services
Debt Consolidation Scams
Drug Paraphernalia
Escort Services
Firearms Sales
Fireworks Sales
Get Rich Products
Government Grants
Home-Based Charities
Life-Time Guarantees
Life-Time Memberships
Lottery Sales
Mailing Lists/Personal Info
Money Transfer Networks
On-line Gambling
Payday Loans
Pharmaceutical Sales
Ponzi Schemes
Pornography
Pyramid-Type Sales
Racist Materials
Surveillance Equipment
Telemarketing
Tobacco Sales
Travel Clubs


2 posted on 03/25/2015 8:43:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

lots of duplicate data in that list.


3 posted on 03/25/2015 8:45:39 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: a fool in paradise

de-duped:

Ammunition Sales
Cable Box De-scramblers
Coin Dealers
Credit Card Schemes
Credit Repair Services
Dating Services
Debt Consolidation Scams
Drug Paraphernalia
Escort Services
Firearms Sales
Fireworks Sales
Get Rich Products
Government Grants
Home-Based Charities
Life-Time Guarantees
Life-Time Memberships
Lottery Sales
Mailing Lists/Personal Info
Money Transfer Networks
On-line Gambling
Payday Loans
Pharmaceutical Sales
Ponzi Schemes
Pornography
Pyramid-Type Sales
Racist Materials
Surveillance Equipment
Telemarketing
Tobacco Sales
Travel Clubs


4 posted on 03/25/2015 8:47:53 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: george76

Any business model that the left disapproves of is on that list.

And many gain that disapproval for racist motivations.
Any business that serves mostly low income minorities
is deemed by this admin to be “predatory” or “taking advantage”.

What they really mean is “those are OUR people! They should be coming to US for everything they need!”


5 posted on 03/25/2015 8:50:43 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: george76

it’s ok to deny services to customers whose behavior the admin finds objectionable?

i’m pretty sure a florist in washington state would like to hear it


6 posted on 03/25/2015 8:51:47 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: george76
The head of the FDIC faced tough grilling today from members of a House Financial Services subcommittee including U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton on a rogue policy that essentially directed banks not to deal with businesses the Obama administration found objectionable.

And then, Operation Choke Point continued on as it has been, with no interruption, no terminations, no resignations, no apologies and no actual, real, effective action from Congress. Pi$$ on Tipton. He's a worthless GOPe turd. I was hoping Dave Cox would have been elected.

7 posted on 03/25/2015 8:54:44 AM PDT by dware (The GOP is dead. Long live Conservatism.)
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To: dware

The promised fundamental transformation


8 posted on 03/25/2015 8:59:40 AM PDT by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: cuban leaf

Interesting that porn made the list. Their was a time when feminists thought porn was a healthy thing, much like a woman having the right “to choose”, a woman should have the right to expose her body and engage in sex acts for all the world to see, if she so CHOOSES. It was the epitome of empowerment, the feminazis would say. Now it’s the objectification of “womyn” and degrading. They’ve come a long way, baby, haven’t they?


9 posted on 03/25/2015 9:20:18 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

How do NAZIs say “choke point” in German?

Let’s ask the head of the FDIC if his agency has become a refuge for neoNAZIs...


10 posted on 03/25/2015 9:25:57 AM PDT by pfony1 (Let's welcome some Democrat congressmen into the Republican party and OVERRIDE!)
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To: pfony1

Drosselstelle!


11 posted on 03/25/2015 10:26:04 AM PDT by Kolb (Compone Accomoda Supera)
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To: cuban leaf

“Coin Dealers” and Travel Clubs”???

This ought to be good to see what the left’s bent is about them???


12 posted on 03/28/2015 2:33:15 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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