The Doj's Operation Choke Point

Hundreds of completely legal properly licensed regulation compliant businesses have been subject to this treatment for years. The Justice Department has used its supervisory role over the banking industry to lean on banks and encourage them to drop clients in high risk activities. A 2014 report from the congressional committee on oversight and government reform showed that these high risk industries covered not just patently illegal or evidently pernicious businesses pyramid schemes online gambling debt consolidation scams but completely lawful and regulated ones coin dealers firearms merchants tobaccanists.