Posted on 09/26/2022 12:43:09 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
It looks like the FBI is in for yet another scandal.
According to a new report from the LA Times, FBI agents busted into thousands of safety deposit boxes in California. After they rummaged through the private property of innocent people, it turns out they lied to a federal judge to get access to the boxes in the first place.
"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," the LA Times reports. "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," the report continues. "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."
Those who watch the FBI closely, particular the Bureau's political misconduct and persecution of conservatives, aren't surprised.
Afterall, it's the same FBI that lied to the FISA court in order to illegally surveil Trump campaign advisor Carter Page during the 2016 presidential election. Not to mention their most recent raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Dog bites man.
But the Judge got his cut of the loot they stole, so it’s ok
The FBI is out of control. Who is going to bring them under control?
B-b-b-b-but Hannity says........................
When do we reach the point that something is done?
Hizzoners thought they were the masters of their courts. Nope. Just cucks.
How to reform this corrupt institution - both the FBI, and the DOJ that controls it???
Some of its work is necessary, in some form - investigating Federal Crimes, pursuing foreign spies, for example.
Part of the problem is with the Federal Government itself. It is so vast, so bloated - that it has laws and regulations which could mark ANY behavior as a crime.
Why aren’t they putting these out of control ahos in jail and providing some kind of training to these retarded “judges”.
The feebs like to LIE TO judge after judge and the black robes just take it.
They were looking for valuable underwear worn by “criminals”
in beverly hills?
excellent
Break them into a million pieces . . . as JFK suggested for the CIA.
Last I heard (over a year ago) they aren’t giving people back their stuff, one couple’s retirement savings were in one of the boxes if I remember correctly.
In a nutshell, the FIB just stole people’s property.
Guess their attitude is “So, what are you going to do about it?”
What crime were they supposedly investigating?
Why, that’s confidential of course.
I’m sure they were all drug dealers though.
Lehto’s Law channel on youtube has been all over this thing since the day after they did it. The whole thing is downright comical. The search warrant actually said it does not cover the contents of the boxes, but they tried to keep it all anyway. They are nothing but thieves, robbing people under the color of law.
The judge signed a warrant without specific descriptions of what was to be searched because the FIB “observed” people they THOUGHT just MIGHT be involved in unspecified criminal activity. He ought to be impeached and imprisoned for signing it.
That’s what I’m thinking. The Judge is not stupid, just crooked as an old man’s cane. More than likely, any judge approving such a request from the FBI, knowing of their questionable recent behavior, had to know he’s dealing with the a-moral dregs of the Goon Squad.
21st century Gestapo.
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