Posted on 11/14/2014 7:19:21 PM PST by george76
U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced Friday that the Eastern District of New York, working collaboratively with other offices as well as on its own, collected over $904 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013.
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The combined joint collections and asset forfeiture recoveries for the Eastern District total of more than $2.2 billion exceeds the appropriated $1.86 billion operating budget for all U.S. Attorneys’ Offices nationwide.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Thursday that the Justice Department collected approximately $8.1 billion in civil and criminal actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2013. The more than $8 billion in collections in FY 2013 represents nearly three times the appropriated $2.76 billion budget for the 94 U.S. Attorneys’ offices and the main litigating divisions in that same period.
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U.S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern District of NY joins in over $2.2B In civil, criminal actions, forefeitures
Half of it(if not more) was probably state sanctioned plunder.
Extortion is the Democrat way of governing.
Legalized theft.
civil asset forfeitures where a person is not charged with anything need to be outlawed.
Takings clause amd fhe 5th Amendment?
Yeah, that could work.
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