Posted on 05/14/2015 3:57:48 PM PDT by jazusamo
Lyndon McLellan fought the law -- and apparently, he won.
The North Carolina business owner for months has been battling the federal government after IRS agents last fall seized $107,000 from him, under a controversial practice known as civil forfeiture. But his attorneys at the Institute for Justice announced Thursday that the IRS and Department of Justice have moved to dismiss the case and give him back his money.
“What’s wrong is wrong, and what the government did here was wrong,” McLellan said in a statement Thursday. “I just hope that by standing up for what’s right, it means it won’t happen to other people.”
FoxNews.com reported earlier this week on McLellan's struggle to get his money back. The Institute for Justice said the feds moved to drop their case on Wednesday. Asked about the claim, an IRS official told FoxNews.com they could not comment on the case; a representative with DOJ has not yet responded to a request for comment.
McLellan is just one of thousands of Americans the IRS has seized money from, supposedly for “structuring” funds to avoid a law requiring banks to alert the government of deposits over $10,000. The law was instituted to help the government ferret out drug dealers, terrorists or other criminals -- but the IRS occasionally flags deposits of just under $10,000 as suspicious even if there's no evident criminal wrongdoing, in turn ensnaring people who may be innocent.
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Does anyone know who in Congress first sponsored the civil forteiture law? Just curious.
He is.
The Fourth Amendment seems very clear in its wording: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects,[a] against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
This was an unreasonable search and seizure.
They is us.
“Does anyone know who in Congress first sponsored the civil forteiture law? Just curious.”
Henry Hyde. I once worked in a minor way on his campaign. Please forgive me.
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The sad thing is that any penalties will be paid by the tax payers and not the scum, thug .gov employees who did this.
Yep!
The Institute for Justice may be doing this pro bono, but there’s still the hell he had to go through.
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