Posted on 08/29/2022 1:59:19 AM PDT by Libloather
The FBI told a federal magistrate judge that it intended to open hundreds of safe deposit boxes seized during a March 2021 raid in order to inventory the items inside - but new evidence shows that federal agents were plotting all along to use the operation as an opportunity to forfeit cash and other valuables.
Federal agents failed to disclose those plans to the federal magistrate judge who issued the warrant for the high-profile raid of U.S. Private Vaults, a private business in Beverly Hills, California, that had been the subject of an FBI investigation since at least 2019. When the raid took place, the FBI also seems to have ignored limitations imposed by the warrant, including an explicit prohibition against using the safe deposit boxes as the basis for further criminal investigations.
Those details regarding the planning and execution of the FBI's raid of U.S. Private Vaults are now out in the open after a different federal judge ruled this week that the government could not keep those details out of the public record. As Reason has extensively reported, the raid on U.S. Private Vaults resulted in federal agents seizing and attempting to forfeit more than $86 million in cash as well as gold, jewelry, and other valuables from property owners who were suspected of no crimes. Attorneys representing some plaintiffs who are trying to recover their possessions interviewed the FBI agents who planned the raid, but federal prosecutors tried to keep some details of those depositions redacted.
The unredacted legal documents, filed in federal court on Thursday, show why the government was eager to keep those details under wraps. (Reason submitted an amicus brief in the case arguing that the redacted documents should be made public.)
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Theft is illegal because the government hates competition. Nothing more.
Agreed. It was corrupt day 1 under J. Edgar Hoover. Also, defund the CIA.
A magistrate judge signed off on the FBI warrant, not a US district court judge.
What is a magistrate judge?
A U.S. magistrate judge is a judicial officer of the district court and is appointed by majority vote of the active district judges of the court to exercise jurisdiction over matters assigned by statute as well as those delegated by the district judges.
https://www.uscourts.gov/faqs-federal-judges
Magistrate judges are not appointed by the US Congress. They are flunky lawyers appointed by district judges. IOW, this is another level of the unelected, unaccountable idiot deep state.
Hillary winks
Back in 1933 everyone was to turn in their gold.
I think safety boxes were opened to search for gold after that?
And in Beverly HIlls, I think they found (EVIL) guns!
I don’t remember any gold being the problem, but many kept
money in their boxes...THEIR BOXES...THEIR BUSINESS.
And no one who didn’t own the box got to see it without a warrant or Death Certificate.
They belong at the end of a rope, in public, as a warning to other bureaucrats with delusions of grandeur.
Now the FBI is the mafia.
LOL. The FBI was just eliminating competition from a rival criminal organization.
The FBI has always been completely un-American. Only faggots would work for he FBI these days now that their laundry is starting to finally be aired.
A friend worked for the secret service. all you have to do to get him spun up and cursing is to mention the faggots in the FBI. The number of decent people that work for the FBI can probably be counted on 2 hands. The rest of them are scumbag threats to the safety of our Republic.
Every single one is a scumbag, including our FBI minders that hang out here on FR.
Attention FBI minders: Every decent person hates your guts, and wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire.
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