how do we know this money was destined for a church and orphanage?
After a legal battle you can try to get it back,
Lawyers and politicians and thieves. But then I repeat myself.
USA, RIP.
Muskogee has since agreed to return the money which they should IMO. Oklahoma tried to get a law passed limiting CAFs but the LEO in Oklahoma raised so much hell over it that it died in committee. If you’re found innocent you can get your property back but the cost of attorneys to do so often makes it prohibitive.
*Never* *Ever* travel with that much cash.
Corrupt cops cashing in.
Ka-ching!
Just because it is the law, does not mean the law is just.
Civil forfeiture is theoretically designed to prevent criminals from profiting from “ill-gotten” gains. Because there is a different and lower standard of proof for civil cases vs. criminal cases, Defendants often forfeit such property without trial for a number of good reasons. Especially when they are guilty as heck, but may not want to risk trial on the criminal matter.
In any event, the procedure is rife with abuse in some jurisdictions.
Where it SHOULD be used and is fully justified, is in benefiting from the use of illegal aliens and/or human trafficking labor. If your paving company or roofing company makes money (and forces legitimate competitors out of the business) because it benefits from using low wage workers paid under the table, those “gains” are “ill-gotten” and your company should be seized. If you are Zoey Baird or Barbara Streisand and you keep your house neat and the garden tidy by hiring illegals, your house should be seized. It is not just drug dealers who are hurting our nation.
Things would change in a hurry. I am going to advise President Trump to do this immediately upon inauguration. This would work hand in hand with “the Wall.”
Ed
Likewise, there is a reason Barry and his buddies, including the apparently complicit GOPe continue to grant more and more power to the cops (local, state, county) because while the military members pledge to follow and defend the constitution, cops do not. This is not a knock on cops, just an observation I am far from alone in making.
2) Some, not all of this money was set for donations to charity.
3) The money is being returned in full.
4) Oklahoma's forfeiture laws are considered among the worst in the country. But lawmakers cannot be bothered to change them. Stop blaming the cops. Last time I checked, cops don't make the laws.
The government wants your money, but it can’t get it legally, so it calls theft “asset forfeiture” and goes ahead with the theft.
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Burma “Shave”!