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‘Have You Heard of a Little Thing Called Operation Choke Point?’

Phone Recording Shows Targeting of Tobacco Business

By Heritage Foundation Kelsey Harkness——--March 4, 2015

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A North Carolina tobacco seller says the government is “screwing” his small business by forcing the shutdown of his bank accounts and payment processor as a result of Operation Choke Point.
And Brennan Appel, owner of Global Hookah Distributors, a tobacco products distributor based in Charlotte, N.C., is offering phone recordings to prove it. “Have you heard of a little thing called Choke Point and [the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau]?,” asks Alex Bacon, the president of Appel’s payment processor, in a phone conversation. More...

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