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US postpones payments to police in asset forfeiture program
Associated Press ^ | Dec 24, 2015 3:40 PM EST

Posted on 12/24/2015 7:36:08 PM PST by Olog-hai

The Justice Department said this week it is putting off payments "for the time being" to local law enforcement agencies that participate in the federal asset forfeiture program.

The move comes after Congress recently took $1.2 billion from the department's asset forfeiture fund as part of budget maneuvering.

Under the program, the Justice Department permits local law enforcement to share proceeds of seized assets from investigations in which they participated. But significant cuts to the fund by Congress mean those "equitable sharing" payments are being put on hold. ...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; 5thamendment; assetforfeiture; banglist; congress; doj; fifthamendment; guncontrol; police; secondamendment
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To: Olog-hai

Absolute power....


21 posted on 12/24/2015 9:18:20 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Olog-hai

Actually the asset forfeiture program is more the action of a government of thugs than any legitimage political entity. It has been grossly abused by local goons in law enforcement to seize the assets of citizens far beyond any legitimate compensation for offences of a trival nature. Perhaps these thugs will be less eager to do so in the future knowing the beneficiaries are the bigger thieves than they in Washington.


22 posted on 12/24/2015 9:28:55 PM PST by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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To: dp0622
Michael Corleone:I'm working for my father now Kay. He's been sick, very sick.

Kay Adams:But you're not like him Michael. I thought you weren't going to become a man like your father. That's what you told me.

Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any other powerful man, any man who is responsible for other people, like a senator or a president.

Kay Adams:You know how naive you sound?

Michael Corleone:Why?

Kay Adams: Senators and presidents don't have men killed.

Michael Corleone: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?

23 posted on 12/24/2015 9:35:18 PM PST by BBell
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To: Olog-hai

Well I guess there’s nothing left in social security to rob.


24 posted on 12/24/2015 9:37:07 PM PST by BBell
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To: Olog-hai

Asset forfeiture is a massive scam. Family court is an even bigger scam.


25 posted on 12/24/2015 9:44:10 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Olog-hai
The Justice Department said this week it is putting off payments "for the time being" to local law enforcement agencies that participate in the federal asset forfeiture program.

"Those thieves in Washington made off with the money we stole!"

Karma's a harsh mistress, ain't it?

26 posted on 12/24/2015 9:51:34 PM PST by Gandalf the Mauve
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To: combat_boots

IMHO, the whole thing was a scam..


27 posted on 12/24/2015 9:58:02 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Olog-hai

“Pray they don’t change the deal any further”...


28 posted on 12/24/2015 10:16:17 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: combat_boots

To the degree asset confiscation is sheer robbery itself, let Congress put the money to better use than creating militarized SWAT teams with the capability of machine gunning your dog on a wrong-address raid.


29 posted on 12/24/2015 11:03:19 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: SeeSharp

The local police may lose their incentive to do the dirty work.


30 posted on 12/25/2015 12:06:43 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe the local LEOs won’t be so motivated to steal people’s stuff.


31 posted on 12/25/2015 1:37:26 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: BBell

another great exchange from that movie.

And so true that it’s heartbreaking.

The Godfathers I and II opened my eyes to the harsh realities of human extremes.

My GF at the time said “he’s going to kill his brother”

I said NO ONE would ever kill their brother.

Wow.


32 posted on 12/25/2015 7:09:06 AM PST by dp0622
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To: combat_boots

...didn’t u know!!!???.....Democrats and RINOS, aka The Unity Party, have to pay for those free cell phones, free housing, free food stamps, free college loans, free healthcare and on and on endlessly............somehow, someway.

This is because even The Uni Party is FORCED to deal with no money in the ole checking account over and over and over throughout their tenure in our CORRUPT halls and balls of Congress!

Eventually, like Poland and Greece recently, Liberals just confiscate ALL YOUR money in YOUR savings and checking accounts and throw your ass out into the street.


33 posted on 12/25/2015 7:12:17 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: webstersII
This is just the fed asset forfeiture. It doesn’t impact the state-level asset forfeiture programs.

In Missouri they passed a law that asset forfeiture money would go to the schools instead of being kept by LE. The fed stepped in and came up with a plan where the local LE would call in federal agents there when they made a bust. The feds would take control of the asset forfeiture and kick back part of it to local LE as "revenue sharing" and the schools got nothing.

34 posted on 12/25/2015 7:20:47 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: dp0622

we even have our own assassinated journalists now.


You say that like its a bad thing.


35 posted on 12/25/2015 12:27:49 PM PST by Peet (I'd say to hell with the media, but hell doesn't want them either.)
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To: Olog-hai

Good. Local jurisdictions have been using the federal seizure sharing program to end run the [long overdue and far too timid IMO] reforms in state asset forfeiture (which, since they’re state/county entities, they shouldn’t be able to do anyway). Hopefully this will remove the incentive to do that.


36 posted on 12/25/2015 4:36:39 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: webstersII

Yes, but some states have been reforming their programs, and the locals have been using this to get around that (which they shouldn’t have got away with anyway), so this is good.


37 posted on 12/25/2015 4:38:53 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Olog-hai

This program has been a corrupting force in American policing.


38 posted on 02/12/2016 10:59:04 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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