Posted on 09/23/2022 6:14:56 PM PDT by lowbridge
The privacy invasion was vast when FBI agents drilled and pried their way into 1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills.
They rummaged through personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer, a retired doctor, a flooring contractor, two Century City lawyers and hundreds of others.
Agents took photos and videos of pay stubs, password lists, credit cards, a prenuptial agreement, immigration and vaccination records, bank statements, heirlooms and a will, court records show. In one box, agents found cremated human remains.
Eighteen months later, newly unsealed court documents show that the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles got their warrant for that raid by misleading the judge who approved it.
They omitted from their warrant request a central part of the FBI’s plan: Permanent confiscation of everything inside every box containing at least $5,000 in cash or goods, a senior FBI agent recently testified.
The FBI’s justification for the dragnet forfeiture was its presumption that hundreds of unknown box holders were all storing assets somehow tied to unknown crimes, court records show.
It took five days for scores of agents to fill their evidence bags with the bounty: More than $86 million in cash and a bonanza of gold, silver, rare coins, gem-studded jewelry and enough Rolex and Cartier watches to stock a boutique.
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Unexpected
I wonder how much those guys pocketed.
Presumption of innocence?
Innocent until proven guilty?
You must be joking!
Expected!
Grand Theft FBI. What are you going to do about it?, They’re the government.
At least half, if not three quarters.
Color me shocked to learn the FIB lied to a judge and stole people’s property despite having absolutely no evidence they had committed a crime.
Does this admission of wrongdoing mean the seizures were unlawful and people get their property back?
And the scumbag lawyer with the black dress and little hammer still refuses to JAIL THEM FOR CONTEMPT.
Why do you think that is?
Allegations? Seriously, that is all they have?
Firing squad to all the fbi involved.
Every. Single. One. Including all the bosses that rubber stamped it.
Dead dam serious.
“The FBI’s justification for the dragnet forfeiture was its presumption that hundreds of unknown box holders were all storing assets somehow tied to unknown crimes, court records show. “
So they just said that unknown people were storing assets somehow tied to unknown crimes and the judge signed the search warrant?
How could that search/seizure have been legal? There was no warrant specifying what the FBI was looking for!
Dumb Judge.
Jack Boot thugs
Apparently a number of Hollywood celebrities had millions of dollars in cash and jewelry, etc taken in this raid and they cant get it back.
I’ve been reading about this illegal raid and seizure for several months now. The FBI thinks they are a law unto themselves and do not have to follow the Constitution.
Our forefathers fought a revolution and one of the reasons was a tyrannical government executing general warrants or forcibly confiscated people’s papers without any warrant. Ultimately, warrant or not, it’s the same thing.
The FBI’s abuses deserve extra harsh treatment, including every agent being investigated for civil rights abuses. At a minimum, the FBI needs to be shuttered, with any constitutionally federal functions sent else where in government. Every past and current FBI employee needs to be barred from working in government ever again.
The FBI has zero credibility.
is it not legal to store cash at the U.S. Private Vaults store???
bank boxes and it’s a no-no, but a store?
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