Posted on 09/20/2021 3:25:06 PM PDT by Mark
After the FBI seized Joseph Ruiz’s life savings during a raid on a safe deposit box business in Beverly Hills, the unemployed chef went to court to retrieve his $57,000. A judge ordered the government to tell Ruiz why it was trying to confiscate the money.
It came from drug trafficking, an FBI agent responded in court papers.
Ruiz’s income was too low for him to have that much money, and his side business selling bongs made from liquor bottles suggested he was an unlicensed pot dealer, the agent wrote. The FBI also said a dog had smelled unspecified drugs on Ruiz’s cash.
The FBI was wrong. When Ruiz produced records showing the source of his money was legitimate, the government dropped its false accusation and returned his money.
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It’s long last time to completely disband the FBI.
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The gov is not your friend
Now seize Nasty Piglosi’s fortune because there’s no way she can have mega-millions of dollars on a Congressional pay!
When Sniffer can pardon hundreds millions of Bolshies for whatever, it is time to dissolve the FBI.
The judge told them to seize the store but NOT THE CONTENTS of the boxes because there was no proof of wrongdoing. They were explicitly told NOT to do what they did. THEN they were told top return the contents to the owners.
The FBI?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah, choke, spit, puke, fart......
That may be but it wants me to turn off my ad blocker and that's not going to happen at a lefty paper.
I guess the 6th Amendment doesn’t apply to cash.
And this same government now wants banks to let the IRS know about bank transactions for accounts having over $600. This is banana republic stuff.
Liars, cheats and thieves... Defund the FBI.
Defund The FEDERAL Police!!!
Take Boeing for example. The DoD has just decided to award a $50 billion contract to Lockheed rather than Boeing. It hasn't been made public yet...only Lockheed and Boeing executives and certain members of Congress know.
A member of Congress would be allowed to use this knowledge to buy Lockheed stock and/or sell Boeing stock. OTOH if a Lockheed,or Boeing,executive used it to buy or sell it would mean 10 years at Club Fed.
And,of course,it hasn't been made public yet so members of The Great Unwashed like us wouldn't be about to cash in on this government decision.
Silly, naive me.
Safe deposit boxes are only safe for the bank and Gov agencies.
And the government should be charged with Criminal Theft.
Obama’s FBI
The U.S.women’s Olympic gymnastics team thinks the FBI is like tits on a bull. Useless.
5.56mm
(The FBI said) Ruiz’s income was too low for him to have that much money.....
Hell, that excuse would work for anyone in Congress.
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