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  • FBI says fortune seized in Beverly Hills raid was criminals’ loot. Owners say: Where’s the proof?

    09/20/2021 3:25:06 PM PDT · by Mark · 60 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 9/20/2021 | Michael Finnegan
    After the FBI seized Joseph Ruiz’s life savings during a raid on a safe deposit box business in Beverly Hills, the unemployed chef went to court to retrieve his $57,000. A judge ordered the government to tell Ruiz why it was trying to confiscate the money. It came from drug trafficking, an FBI agent responded in court papers. Ruiz’s income was too low for him to have that much money, and his side business selling bongs made from liquor bottles suggested he was an unlicensed pot dealer, the agent wrote. The FBI also said a dog had smelled unspecified drugs...