Posted on 10/07/2022 6:05:51 PM PDT by lowbridge
A judge ruled on September 29 that federal agents who raided 1,400 safe-deposit boxes in March 2021 at a private vault company did not violate search and seizure laws, court documents shared with Insider show.
A lawsuit filed in August alleged the FBI and the US attorney's office in Los Angeles obtained warrants against US Private Vaults in Beverly Hills, California, by concealing critical details from the judge who approved them.
In his ruling, District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner found no impropriety in the way the government got or executed the warrants for the raid. He dismissed the class-action suit filed on behalf of the people whose boxes had been seized.
The vault company was shut down following the raid and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder drug money.
Laura Eimiller, a spokesperson for the FBI, told Insider: "Today's District Court ruling makes it clear that agents investigating criminal activity at US Private Vaults did not mislead the court and affirms the FBI's position that the investigation was conducted without malice and in a manner consistent with the law, FBI policies and the US Constitution."
The lawsuit was filed after FBI agents raided the Beverly Hills branch of US Private Vaults, seizing more than $86 million in cash, as well as jewelry and gold from 1,400 safe-deposit boxes. It said owners' items still had not been returned and that agents misled a judge to get the warrant.
None of the people who owned the boxes has been charged after almost five years of investigating; various agencies concluded "the problem was the business itself," court documents said.
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He’s a Smirking Chimp stooge-judge.
The effstapo got itself a senile old stooge-judge.
Many police agencies accuse illegal personal gains from dealing in the illicit drug industry so cops go in and take their homes, their cars, anything that is of any value and this is all before the person is ever indicted or convicted. Did any of those who owned these safe deposit box contents ever get convicted for their holding or did the cops just take it all on a whim?
Thank you Richard Nixon...
President Trump has revealed to us that there isn't a dime's worth of difference between those two...
Scooter Libby, anyone?
Us law-abiding citizens always forget who we are dealing with - Legal operatives for the Deep State and Uniparty, similar to NKVD and Cheka operatives.
Let us see if an appeal gets a different result.
What’s wrong with 81? I am 82 and doing great.
Appointed by Biden...now that is the real problem.
How much of a cut of the loot, did the Judge get?
Wikipedia says he was appointed Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California by George W. Bush in 2002.
Why, why, WHY would ANYONE keep anything of value in a bank ‘unsafe’ deposit box?
Good Lord! Don’t you people have access to canning jars and some lawn and a shovel in the midnight hours? ;)
“First they came for the safe deposit boxes, but I wasn’t a safe deposit box holder...”
PING to post 31. GMTA! :)
What does the PRIVATELY OWNED contents of the safe-deposit boxes have to with the company that owned the vault? As the article also says, not a single owner of the contents was charged with a crime. The RICO law that allows “civil forfeiture” is blatant, legalized theft by the government.
No one was charged with anything. But the feds kept the contents anyway without a single bit of proof that any of the contents were ill-gotten.
The government can legally steal your money if they merely SUSPECT it MIGHT be tied to some unknown illegal activity. They don’t have to prove anything or even charge you with a crime.
“This is atrocious, banana republic stuff.”
And it has been going on for well over 40 years.
And it has been going on for well over 40 years.
At least it is getting exposed more now.
I think it is becoming even more blatant as well.
The FBI "raid" is flat out bank robbery under cover of law.
Maybe the denizens of Bev hills ought to vote for a more right leaning government?
As long a Wray gets the Big Guy his 10%, then it is probably legal in todays world.
Maybe everyone should vote for a more Constitutional government.
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