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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General advice is to never carry any significant amount of cash through any governmental security checkpoint. Even if you ultimately get it back, you will spend a lot of money and time trying to get your own property back.
Singapore kicked all the commies out in the fifties and they were told if they tried to return they would be summarily executed on the spot. Look where they are now.
Actually, it's not legal. Making repeated cash deposits/withdrawals just under the $10K limit is called "structuring" and is prohibited under the Bank Secrecy Act.
There are a lot of problems with that law, but it is the law nevertheless.
You’re late to the party. ;)
This has been going on for decades. The cops will seize your money and never press charges. You have to sue to get it back. If the amount is small enough, they know you won’t bother. In fact, some police forces have been caught taking only some of the money to keep it below that threshhold.
Understanding asset forfeiture in the US causes one to see this country, um, differently. It’s more like a banana republic than many thing.
Just google Asset Forfetiure to get all sorts of fun stories and videos that will cut you to the core.
BTW, one of their tricks is to actually name the asset or cash as the “defendant” in a case. Dead serious. i.e. “city of Ripoffville vs bag of $200,000”.
Here is some fun stuff: https://www.google.com/search?q=cops+keep+your+money
Is it not legal?
Yes Comrade.
It’s shocking that this happens in what is supposed to be a free country:
Hell, I took out 400 in cash in 100 dollar bills for a vacation in Florida, where I discovered banks wont break them without an account.
WTH
I don’t see a problem.
Government doesn’t like people to be free.
I’ve read many stories like this one. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/01/police-seized-couples-cash-they-couldnt-get-it-back-until-they-went-public/
They are heartbreaking. I weep for my country.
Yeah I Completely agree.
There’s too much confiscation going on.
I was glad when Rudy Giuliani clamped down on prostitution but when he made it law that the car being driven by johns was part of the criminal act and would be confiscated, that was too much.
Probably quite effective but effective doesn’t always make something right.
i dunno.
“...asked her to help manage the cash he and his late parents had hidden in hiding spots throughout the family home.”
My wife’s grandfather did this. Replacing an electrical outlet and he had $2,000 stashed in the wall.
When he died I was overseas. My mother-in-law sold the large property with the old farm-house to a developer. She grabbed a few photos and stuff from the house, but left the rest to the buyer. I’m guessing they just bulldozed the house, and the thousands of dollars hidden.
The barn was full of “junk” too - but I’m guessing some of that stuff was worth something too. Not to mention the probable wads of bills in the tackle box and old coffee can labeled “nails”. I tried to get her to hold off until I returned, but she “just wanted to be done with it.”
I’d say there’s a decent chance. In which case Dad deserves protection from his kinfolk.
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Exactly where(and who) are you getting the info from which you are backing what the government did here?
Where is there one word that backs the claim that the money was stolen?
btw, dad ain’t getting nothing back. You need to re-read the article you posted. The government intends on keeping it.
Amen!
pepsionice wrote:
“All they had to do...was walk into some local credit union...open a simple account. A week later, have a cashier’s check ‘cut’, and she could have carried that check anywhere, and no one would say much of anything.
I would imagine if you forced federal law enforcement to report incidents like this....there’s probably twenty episodes a week...across the US, where they ‘steal’ the money. Some might be drug traffic cash, but the bulk is just naive people thinking it’s legal to do so.”
From the article:
“It was late Saturday night after the banks closed when he gave me the money...”
It’ll cost that for a lawyer to get it back.
Exactly. A very effective way to reduce all crime to 0 would be to kill everybody.
Being suspicious and confiscating it w/o proving any of those suspicions are two different things...
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Government (particularly dems IMO) don’t care to stop any of the drugs and money that crosses our borders, but they have no problem stripping citizens of the money they spent their whole lives earning.
Just goes along with the saying that I have, that there is no such thing as private property in the U.S. Property ownership is an illusion. You only pay rent on it to the government for as long as they are willing to let you keep it, and that rent can go up as much as they please. Cash, of course, never really was your either. You were permitted to use it, so long as you gave government it’s cut every time you did, no matter which way and with whom the transaction (a few exceptions), and as this article shows, it can be taken away without any due process except to try to sue.
That’ll work! :)
The same with these 15mph speed signs I see sometimes, and not on a crazy curve or anything.
5mph speed limit would save a lot of lives.
Or no driving at all.
It seems all levels of govt just love control.
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