According to the Community Financial Services Association of America in a complaint filed yesterday in a Washington federal court, the regulators have been using the anti-fraud initiative called Operation Choke Point to pressure them out of the business.
Manfred Ainedter, who represents the ex-husband of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev's eldest daughter, former diplomat Rakhat Aliyev, told Bloomberg that his client surrendered to Austrian police in relation to the kidnapping and eventual deaths of two executives of a bank he has a minority stake in.
The federal benefits that await over a thousand couples who have received marriage licenses following the strikedown of the state ban on gay marriage in Utah would not be awarded in the meantime until the results of an appeals court in Denver over the request of the state to uphold the marriage ban, Bloomberg reported.