Yes... a childrens hospital in Nigeria.
Why should Michael Chertoff have ALL the fun with corruption?
I liked this country better when you were free to carry cash and a gun.
I am of the opinion that Civil asset forfeiture should only be executed as part of a sentence and only after the conviction of a crime.
Seized and redistributed to various members of the ruling class.
Things like this are what make it difficult to support the Police.
“””a Houston woman who had $41,000 in cash seized by CBP at an airport in 2018. The money was earmarked for a children’s hospital in Nigeria.”””
Boy, it’s too bad someone doesn’t invent a thingy where you could go to your bank and then somehow have them send the money to a bank in another country so you would have access to it once you got there.
There is a story around here about a BM who was busted and he told his friends what the police took from him, during the ‘raid’.
He said he watched them stuffing their pockets....literally!!
The newspaper reported something much less than half the figure.
End civil asset forfeiture entirely at all levels of government. End any sense that private persons have any responsibility in reporting large cash transactions or being in any way liable for skirting reporting. Prevent law enforcement from being able to assume cash could be dirty.
Frankly, the only fines and penalties paid should be those already defined in statute, not whatever they’ve got.
If bad people keep stuff that’s just what it will take since CAF is inescapably abused and the oversight over and harassment of ordinary people unpreventable.
The Fourth Amendment does not apply when you are on U.S. Port property; or on a boat, ship, or yacht on the water. If you don’t want to get searched don’t go there. There are signs posted prominently at the entrance to the port property. You can argue all that you want, but those are the rules that have been upheld by the courts. If you are searched and you have over $10,000 cash you are in trouble. If you are on a boat and the Coast Guard boards and finds one gram of marijuana you are in trouble.
Some people stay out of trouble and some people find trouble to get into. That is why I am very careful about who I travel abroad with.
That means they can give every citizen a million dollars right? :-)
The reason? The difficulty in transferring money here, and he did not quite trust banks.
Even when we lived in the US he paid cash instead of a credit cards.
Now all the newspapers are discussing a cashless society, but a lot of older folks distrust ordering things by internet, and I won't trust my credit card at the nearby mall for fear it will be hacked.
Battle of Athens.