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FBI Overstepped in Search of Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes, Court Rules
The Intercept ^ | January 24 2024 | Shawn Musgrave

Posted on 01/25/2024 7:59:51 AM PST by Heartlander

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1 posted on 01/25/2024 7:59:51 AM PST by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

The FBI “overstepping” is now the rule, not the exception.


2 posted on 01/25/2024 8:01:00 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Heartlander

Time to expand the Texas Rangers and allow them to take over duties of the FBI. Fire ALL FBI personnel to make sure you got the right villains.


3 posted on 01/25/2024 8:02:37 AM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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To: Heartlander
Nobody fired. No pensions stripped. Nobody facing a jury.

In other words, a compliment from one agency to another. The words of the judge have no legal weight whatsoever. A joke.

4 posted on 01/25/2024 8:04:17 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: Heartlander

You unlawfully take someone’s property, and you’ll be charged with a crime.
The police unlawfully take someone’s property, and… well, nothing.

This country needs to take a second look at the concept of “qualified immunity.” I believe it’s necessary when the police are forced to make snap decisions while under pressure. But it shouldn’t apply in cases like the one here.


5 posted on 01/25/2024 8:07:55 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Heartlander

Every last person involved should be facing multiple FELONY charges by the State, but it’s California, probably have a parade for the criminals.


6 posted on 01/25/2024 8:08:41 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: ABStrauss
Time to expand the Texas Rangers and allow them to take over duties of the FBI. Fire ALL FBI personnel to make sure you got the right villains.

I trust Adolis Garcia and Corey Seager much more than those FBI scum!

7 posted on 01/25/2024 8:09:04 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Heartlander
The FBI seized millions of dollars in cash from the deposit boxes, plus a mix of jewelry, personal effects, and documents such as wills and prenuptial agreements.

How much of that stuff disappeared and will never be seen again? I suspect a great deal of it...

8 posted on 01/25/2024 8:09:20 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Heartlander

Obama/Holder’s FBI


9 posted on 01/25/2024 8:09:59 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Heartlander

Oh, sorry, our bad! 🖕


10 posted on 01/25/2024 8:10:43 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Heartlander

Blah, blah, blah.

Where are the repercussions against the perpetrators of the this atrocity?


11 posted on 01/25/2024 8:19:59 AM PST by glorgau
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To: Heartlander

This just pisses me off. No mention of any punishment of the FBI at any level. The person who headed this search should be fined, fired, and publicly humiliated.


12 posted on 01/25/2024 8:21:45 AM PST by econjack
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To: Heartlander

Unless specific individuals were named in the search warrant there was no reason for a massive taking of personal property. And while the lawyers fight over whether to allow destruction of any paper trail involving the raid, you can bet that a significant amount of the money has been converted into private yachts, cars, etc and some jewelry being given to FIB wives for birthday, anniversary, etc. Even if the FIBs found something illegal, it cannot be allowed as evidence in a future legal action.

This was a taking, basically theft pure and simple.


13 posted on 01/25/2024 8:42:40 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: ByteMercenary
Yes, search warrants must be specific as to what they are looking for and the specific address of whom would have it. Unless, of course, it is a search of Mar A Lago by the Feds, commie judges just let that slide. These people should get all their money back with INTEREST (as set forth by the State Statutes in that particular State), if it was taken with zero probable cause
14 posted on 01/25/2024 8:51:50 AM PST by jpp113
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To: Heartlander

Now let’s see if the FBI gives everything back. I expect they won’t.


15 posted on 01/25/2024 9:02:05 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Heartlander

Oopsie. Our bad.


16 posted on 01/25/2024 9:04:32 AM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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To: blackdog

The FBI should be forced to pay enormous fines for their attempt at ‘insurrection’.


17 posted on 01/25/2024 9:10:12 AM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Heartlander

The appeals court is wrong. The FBI did not “overstep their authority”. They acted like the common criminals they are, then conducted a conspiracy to attempt to regularize their criminal actions. Note that not one single FBI idiot bothered to step up and say “hey, the warrant only allows us to look at specific boxes, not to steal everything here.”


18 posted on 01/25/2024 9:18:16 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Heartlander

We need to completely get rid of the government having *ANY* say over what people do with their money.

All the alleged drug trafficking and other crime is less damaging to our country than police abuse of power.

There shouldn’t even *BE* such a crime as ‘money laundering’ nor should there ever be civil asset forfeiture except AFTER a conviction in court by a jury.

I worry more about the FBI than any supposed cartel.


19 posted on 01/25/2024 9:43:17 AM PST by Republican in occupied CA (We had enough government in 1789)
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To: silent majority rising
Government rewards failure with more money and more authority. Where is the value of honesty in a state that subsidizes chaos and political weaponization.

The FBI Operations manual today happens to have been written by Saul Alinsky, Francis Fox Piven, and Richard A. Cloward. The swearing oath of agency staff has been altered to Alinsky's Rules for Radicals instead of the Constitution.

20 posted on 01/25/2024 9:55:40 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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