Posted on 12/07/2023 4:20:57 PM PST by george76
Civil rights attorneys argue FBI defied warrant by searching people's safe deposit boxes...
FBI agents cataloged Cartier bracelets, Rolex watches and stacks of cash as they combed through safe deposit boxes seized from a Beverly Hills business accused of money laundering. But the owners of many of those boxes were not accused of any crimes.
After hearing arguments from both sides Thursday, a panel of judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will decide whether the sweeping raid violated customers' Fourth Amendment rights.
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Agents took about $86 million in cash from the boxes, as well as a trove of jewelry, gold bars and coins, silver and other valuables.
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Civil asset forfeiture is the process through which the government seizes money or other property believed to be linked to a crime without ever charging the owner.
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attorneys from the Institute for Justice argued that the FBI "broke open hundreds of safe deposit boxes, and then it tried to civilly forfeit everything in those boxes worth over $5,000" after the raid without any probable cause.
IJ wants the appeals court to definitively state that the FBI violated individuals' rights and to force the federal government to destroy copies it made of customers' private documents — including medical records, wills and trusts —
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The warrant only authorized agents to seize business computers, money counters and surveillance equipment.
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Forfeiture generated more than $45.7 billion in revenue for the federal government alone between 2000 and 2019
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Always has been. They used to hide it better. Now they don't care if we notice. We are in the end-stage of a collapsing republic.
This is the only real power we have. If I'm ever on a jury I'd assume that any evidence presented by a feral agency is manufactured.
The only other option is to just start shooting the bastards. The problem with that, is that most of the common folk in this country are fundamentally decent. The feds will not hesitate a second to kill you and your entire family. They really are feral.
Can capital controls and forced lending (gov’t raids pension funds and other accumulated assets and replaces them with government bonds) be far behind? It’s happened before and will happen again.
Sad. There'll be no Six Sigma if there are third-party payments to organizations, it appears.
the government seizes money or other property believed to be linked to a crime
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Was that currency from the Fed Bank? If so it is linked to a crime, de facto.
So, if I have a tungsten bar, and have it painted gold, and it is locked in my SDB,
Will they prosecute me for fraud and deception?
Oh, probably only after they carry it out and try to cash it.
The initial Fourth Amendment case was handled by R. Gary Klausner, Smirking Chimp [Dubya] stooge for the Central District of California.
The appeal of the stooge's "opinion" rubber-stamping the fibbie piracy went to the Ninth Circuit's Milan B. Smith [Dubya judge], Carlos T. Bea [Dubya judge] and Trump judge Lawrence VanDyke.
These three gave senior moment stooge Klausner a unanimous nuclear wedgie.
PAUL SNITKO, ET AL V. USA, ET AL 22-56050
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2024/01/23/22-56050.pdf
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