Posted on 01/16/2020 4:05:18 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
SOUTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A local man’s life savings of more than $82,000 was seized at Pittsburgh International Airport in August, and now he and his daughter are suing, Channel 11’s news exchange partners at TribLIVE reported.
Rebecca Brown, 54, of Lowell, Mass., told TribLIVE her 79-year-old retired father, Terry Rolin, of South Fayette Township, asked her to help manage the cash he and his late parents had hidden in hiding spots throughout the family home.
“It was late Saturday night after the banks closed when he gave me the money, and I had an early (Monday) morning flight home. So, I didn’t get a chance to get to a bank in Pittsburgh,” Brown told TribLIVE. “I was concerned about traveling with cash, so I checked online and found out it was legal to travel domestically with cash.
Brown told TribLIVE she was carrying the cash in a small, zippered bag inside a satchel when she was questioned about it by a Transportation Security Agency agent at a security checkpoint. After getting to the gate, she said she was approached by a state trooper and a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agent.
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I’m trying to find any court docs related to this case. The reporting is so lousy, I’d like to see some actual documentation. In the meantime, if Fedzilla doesn’t have a damn good reason for going for forfeiture, I’m with you. The rightful owner of the cash, whoever it is, should get it back. Any any abuse of power by any government agency ought to result in damages to the plaintiff/s.
But I’m not taking anybody’s word for anything without seeing some documentation.
Nice try! I'd hate to hear your opinion of the President's impeachment... Same comment, I guess...
Unless you’re privy to some documentation that the rest of us haven’t seen, you know no more than the rest of us do. And that means we still have more questions than answers. Unless you’re the type that likes making assumptions. I’m not.
My point exactly. From Hot Tabasco's post, to which I responded:
Back in 2013 there was a local family owned grocery store whose bank account containing $35,000 was seized because they were making constant deposits just less than $10K in a bank across the street from the store.
If that statement is accurate, and I have no reason to believe that it isn't, then the activity clearly indicates a deliberate pattern of planning deposits to avoid the bank's reporting requirement.
On the other hand, if the deposits varied over time, like $3K one day, $8K another day, and so on like that, then the activity would have been much less suspicious. An occasional deposit of over $10K (or even a regular deposit over $10K) would not be suspicious for an established cash business. That happens all the time in the business world, it's normal and not illegal in any way.
So, why would someone running a legitimate business engage in a pattern of activity that will alert bankers to possible illegal activity? That's just stupid.
YOU are ...
Here’s the complaint: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Pittsburgh-Airport-Forfeiture-Complaint.pdf
“Terry and Rebecca received CAFRA notices for the entire $82,373 dated October 11, 2019, from DEA indicating DEA’s intention to permanently keep their cash through civil forfeiture.”
How about congresscritters living like multimillionaires on a modest (in a high cost, high tax environment) $174,000 a year salary? Full accounting, please!
Is that in a "loser pays" state, or were they slammed with legal fees?
They had legal fees but were eventually represented by the Institute for Justice who got the case dismissed...........
To the folks here who claimed they were in violation of the law, well, apparently they weren't..........LOL!
lots of people that lived through the depression would hide money like that.
So, get your congresscritter and senator to work on changing said rules. If they are dismissive, get the word out and remove them.
Why do the police get to even ask about cash on a person unless it’s obviously criminal like a Jesus and Mary muraled 75,000 dollar Silverado headed back to Tamaulipis with five million in the dashboard
I read about this one a bit
It’s a score for the local cops there
Average confiscation is 5-10,000 per their local media
Which is what I take when traveling out west with my sons
They do this in Nashville too
Some states have banned the practice cause you just can’t rely on local cops not to stuff the local coffers pell mell...it’s their money once they seixe it and they are difficult to get it back from
It’s too tempting for them
New trucks and gearand most of all travel junkets, you’d be surprised where all they go for law enforcement symposiums
Las Vegas and the Caribbean and Italy due to mob stuff
I’ve dealt with this personally on a larger scale, it stinks
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