Victims of Operation Choke Point gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday to share their stories of an overbearing government strangling their perfectly legal and compliant businesses.
Since 2013, banks have been intimidated by Obama’s Department of Justice to crack down on businesses in industries that supposedly have greater occurrences of fraud. The problem: Legitimate, law-abiding businesses are being targeted and having their bank accounts closed without enough proof of fraud to press charges. Due process has been thrown out the window, and industries seem to be targeted based on the administration’s moral objections to them.
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