[Pearls Before Swine]

This is wrong. The government should be a responsible custodian of investigated property, not an abuser or enjoyer of it.

[Pontiac]

Michigan-based Motors Insurance believes an agent and a federal prosecutor were out for a joyride in Lexington, Ky., in 2009 when the agent lost control of the Ferrari.

If this is true then I agree. These persons were acting outside their powers as agents of the Federal Government and they should be prosecuted for Grand Theft Auto by the state government.

They should also be required by the state courts to make financial restitution.

[frithguild]

On May 27, 2009, FBI Special Agent Frederick Kingston (Kingston), accompanied by a passenger, Assistant United States Attorney J. Hamilton Thompson (Thompson), drove the vehicle from the storage facility, lost control, and crashed it. The circumstances as to why Kingston and Thompson were driving the vehicle are not entirely clear.FN1 At least one document in the record indicates that Thompson was moving the vehicle to return it to MIC.

FN1. MIC has filed a separate case against the government under the Freedom of Information Act, MIC v. Department of Justice, 11–10762, which is assigned to the undersigned. Whether this case has any vitality in light of the Court’s decision is not clear.

Motors Ins. Corp. v. U.S. 2011 WL 4506103, 1 (E.D.Mich.) (E.D.Mich.,2011)