[End Times Sentinel]

They have no case but infinitely deep pockets and can drag this out almost forever. The ‘tactic’ is SOP for all govt agencies bend on punishing someone for whatever reason they feel like.

Correct. There's no incentive whatsoever for this to be handled with any expediency. In fact, there may be perverse incentives that result in the slow processing of this issue (ie: an audit of how many cases they have open, or an inventory of seized products).

You don't want to get yourself mixed up in any type of bureaucracy. In the Gov, everything works exactly opposite of the way it does in private industry.

[muawiyah]

Sometimes the "bureaucrat" simply doesn't understand the law. We had a guy who got just hopping mad over the fact I SC'ed a bunch of revenue deficiency cases he'd had working for years ~ complained to my boss ~ went screaming off into the wilderness ~ all that stuff.

What had happened was the mailers had gone bankrupt and their assets were sold off to other mailers. This guy thought he could transfer the old deficiencies (that'd been unpaid) to the new owners of the equipment.

He refused to understand that bankruptcy stood in the way of any collection!

The appeals from those cases had sat around another office for a number of years because every time anyone called the originator he'd get mad and call the big boss.

That one idiot had "buffaloed" a serious chunk of our functional area by screaming and shouting.

I have a feeling the Gibson case(s) have someone like that in the background and no one wants to let him get crosswise in their alimentary canal!

[RedMonqey]

You don't want to get yourself mixed up in any type of bureaucracy. In the Gov, everything works exactly opposite of the way it does in private industry.

Back a few years ago the city and county wanted to open up farmland for development(land owned by bigshots) and urged TDoT(Tennessee Department of Transportation) to build an bypass with intersection that would have taken a large portion of our farm and split it into sections..

As small farmers we couldn't afford money to be tied up in litigation for years so we contacted the state Water and Emviromental agencies and had them review the TDoT land studies. TDoT OK'ed the road ways, however the Environment and Water agency didn't and contested it because it found federally protected "wetlands" ("crawdaddy" land we used to think "useless" because it was usually too wet to farm) an endangered plant(Brices potato bean plant) as well as an "threaten" frog

A war of paperwork between the agencies ensued which delayed the construction for years.

Finally TDoT gave in and changed the roadway(although we did lose a few acres) We later did the same thing when TVA wanted to put it's High powered lines along the same route but we got Fort Campbell to fight against TVA(Helicopter and high powered electrical lines don't go well together hee hee.)

We keep our land mostly intact and didn't have to spend anything more but the cost of postage stamps and envelops.