Administration has abused the law in mortgage lender settlements [House Judiciary hearing: Paul Larkin, Ted Frank testimony]
Department of Justice official says banks may need to go much farther in informing authorities of customers who may be up to no good than just sending Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) [Kevin Funnell] Interpol Red Notices, which among other effects cut off banking access, are open to geopolitical manipulation [Ted Bromund, Weekly Standard]
No, Operation Choke Point hasn’t gone away, not in the slightest [Funnell, Jared Meyer/Economics21]
What Elizabeth Warren has done to Michael Greve’s mortgage refinance application isn’t pretty [Liberty and Law]
Battle over loser-pays clauses in corporate governance rages on in Delaware [Reuters]
“The U.S. government’s stupid tax war on expatriates” [Brett Arends, earlier on FATCA]
Dodd-Frank: “Wall St. attacked, Main St. wounded” [Iain Murray]

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except for “As an American expat, you can be arrested, thrown in jail and bankrupted by Uncle Sam for failing to disclose a $15,000 checking account on which you have paid all the taxes owed.” (and I could be wrong about that), all of the other stuff in this item could happen to anyone in the US.
- March 27, 2015 12:51 PM
- By Jesse Spurway