WASHINGTON — CUNA has filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents submitted to the U.S. Treasury Department from banking associations as part of the process to develop the Department's recent proposal for sweeping regulatory overhaul.

Part of that proposal included eliminating the credit union charter, as well as the thrift charter, and several media sources have speculated on the roles different trade organizations might have played in the proposal's development.

CUNA General Counsel Eric Richard alluded to this speculation in the April 3 letter requesting the information.

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