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FBI misled judge who signed warrant for Beverly Hills seizure of $86 million in cash
latimes.com ^ | September 23, 2022 | MICHAEL FINNEGAN

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christopherwray; creepstate; deepstate; effstapoagents; fbi; fibbiedirtbags; fstapoagents; merrickgarland; nosteponsnek; policestate; theeffstapo; thefstapo
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To: sport

Race relations were pretty good before obama but he filled blacks with hate. They have gone wild. obama divided our nation more than it has been in generations. It was intentional.

Because of all the black violence and their absolute insanity, whites have gotten sick of them. People do not want to be around it.

Race relations weren’t great before obama but it was so much better for everyone before he was elected.


21 posted on 09/23/2022 6:47:54 PM PDT by boycott
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To: lowbridge

Federal Bureau of Instigation


22 posted on 09/23/2022 6:50:42 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: lowbridge

Aren’t those signed under the pains and penalties of perjury?


23 posted on 09/23/2022 6:53:53 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: lowbridge

The only shocking thing about this is that it had nothing even remotely to do with Trump.

Guess the FBI is expanding the use of their tactics to their other work.


24 posted on 09/23/2022 6:56:38 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: lowbridge

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.

What’s the difference between the FBI and bank robbers?


25 posted on 09/23/2022 6:57:09 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: vivenne

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.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yeah, these same hollywierd celebs are hosting fundraisers for the shiffs swalwells, pelosis, clintons, newsomes, waters, dicaprios…… so they’re getting what they asked for


26 posted on 09/23/2022 6:57:56 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up....)
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To: thinden

My understanding is that these BH seizures were majority from Persian Jews and Muslim Iranians, either US citizens or legal immigrants. A mere crime of opportunity by the morally depraved FBI.


27 posted on 09/23/2022 7:11:54 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

When they come for FR they will they use posts like yours.


28 posted on 09/23/2022 7:12:23 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (1218 - NEVER FORGET!)
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To: thinden

There is a campaign fundraiser every night of the week in Hollywood for somebody. The FBI needs to see how much money is funneled off for padding the host pockets.


29 posted on 09/23/2022 7:12:24 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: lowbridge

They must have caught wind that Trump kept something there...


30 posted on 09/23/2022 7:13:04 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: lowbridge

If it is illegal to lie to the FKGB it should be illegal when they lie.


31 posted on 09/23/2022 7:36:42 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: eyeamok

They get a cut?


32 posted on 09/23/2022 7:36:45 PM PDT by curious7
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To: bray

Lying to FBI no sweat for jury in Clinton lawyer ‘Russiagate’ trial

https://nypost.com/2022/06/01/lying-to-fbi-no-sweat-for-jury-in-clinton-lawyer-russiagate-trial/


33 posted on 09/23/2022 7:40:29 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: Flick Lives

The bank robbers don’t need no steenkin’ badges.


34 posted on 09/23/2022 7:43:03 PM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: boycott

He was elected twice. Three times if you count Lying Joe Biden. And he was the People’s Choice. Not mine but the People. Many was the time I Overheard or heard, “ I voted for him because I wanted to say “I voted for the first Black man to run for President.” This was from White People. I hope they got what they wanted. I know the people who voted for Lying Joe Biden got what they voted for. And the best is yet to come. Wait until 2023. And that was not meant in a nice way. When they are counting their ribs, just before they pass out from hunger, they should reflect back and muse, “I voted for This!”


35 posted on 09/23/2022 8:04:36 PM PDT by sport
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To: isthisnickcool

To clarify, I dont mean vigilante firing squads. I mean after a nuremburg trial for them by some kind of court-ordered legit government firing squad. Maybe some untainted military tribunal firing squad.


36 posted on 09/23/2022 8:32:19 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lowbridge

Something tells me we’re going to see more of these stories. I’m not speculating why, but something doesn’t pass the smell test.


37 posted on 09/23/2022 8:34:49 PM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: sport

Yep. Some clueless clowns thought voting for obama would cleanse them of their white guilt. I’ve never had any white guilt.


38 posted on 09/23/2022 8:35:01 PM PDT by boycott
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To: D Rider

at some point, they don’t come home to the fat wife and 2-story rancher. then they think about following soros and wray’s instructions. only then.


39 posted on 09/23/2022 9:03:50 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Flick Lives

The bank robbers have more character and honor.

Check out my tag line.....


40 posted on 09/23/2022 9:13:46 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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