Anyone know anything about this?

[SilentStalkr]

https://x.com/travis_in_flint/status/1700938811750944816?s=42&t=gqk-H3QHqmRggc-7f5nQ9A

The FBI Took Her Life Savings But Won’t Say What She Did Wrong

Civil forfeiture lets law enforcement take and keep money without convicting or even charging someone with a crime. A Los Angeles woman is now fighting to get her life savings back from the FBI and to end unconstitutional forfeiture practices.

www.forbes.com

Any validity to this?

 

[Maggot]

Business as usual. They do it al the time. Dont drive through Kansas with out of state plates and youre life savings.

She'll likely get it back after going through a massive headache.

 

[wvfarrier]

It was all over the news last year. Several of the victims sued and got their money/belongings returned

 

[Short-bus]

There are a whole lot of LE agencies that participate in this. It's an open practice. Certain states identified drug routes and the funny thing is, they don't make stops to find the drugs....they prefer the return routes with the cash.

Branden

 

[Redmanss]

Update:

https://ij.org/press-release/the-fbi-finally-returned-her-life-savings-after-holding-it-for-two-years-without-pressing-charges/

Doesn't make it right, but did at least put them back to where they were two years ago. Now for the other $100M cash and valuables they seized, who knows.

 

[theLBC]

yeah, more fbi liars. of course they tried to hide their corruption...

FBI misled judge in obtaining warrant to seize hundreds of safe deposit boxes

New court documents show that the FBI planned for months to seize and forfeit property found inside safe deposit boxes in an L.A. raid under the pretext of doing an inventory.

reason.com

The FBI told a federal magistrate judge that it intended to open hundreds of safe deposit boxes seized during a March 2021 raid in order to inventory the items inside—but new evidence shows that federal agents were plotting all along to use the operation as an opportunity to forfeit cash and other valuables.

Federal agents failed to disclose those plans to the federal magistrate judge who issued the warrant for the high-profile raid of U.S. Private Vaults, a private business in Beverly Hills, California, that had been the subject of an FBI investigation since at least 2019. When the raid took place, the FBI also seems to have ignored limitations imposed by the warrant, including an explicit prohibition against using the safe deposit boxes as the basis for further criminal investigations.

Those details regarding the planning and execution of the FBI's raid of U.S. Private Vaults are now out in the open after a different federal judge ruled this week that the government could not keep those details out of the public record.