Posted on 01/16/2020 4:05:18 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
SOUTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A local man’s life savings of more than $82,000 was seized at Pittsburgh International Airport in August, and now he and his daughter are suing, Channel 11’s news exchange partners at TribLIVE reported.
Rebecca Brown, 54, of Lowell, Mass., told TribLIVE her 79-year-old retired father, Terry Rolin, of South Fayette Township, asked her to help manage the cash he and his late parents had hidden in hiding spots throughout the family home.
“It was late Saturday night after the banks closed when he gave me the money, and I had an early (Monday) morning flight home. So, I didn’t get a chance to get to a bank in Pittsburgh,” Brown told TribLIVE. “I was concerned about traveling with cash, so I checked online and found out it was legal to travel domestically with cash.
Brown told TribLIVE she was carrying the cash in a small, zippered bag inside a satchel when she was questioned about it by a Transportation Security Agency agent at a security checkpoint. After getting to the gate, she said she was approached by a state trooper and a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agent.
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There is theory. I agree with you. And beyond the reasons you stated, if a teller doesn’t complete the suspicious activity form they are personally legally at jeopardy. So, I am double against it.
That said, I am saying for people who may find themselves in this position there are ways to navigate the process if you understand the rules and work honestly with the bank.
So, theory and practice are two very different things. I’ve dealt with this on both sides of the counter.
I didn’t always carry fifties. But I had them occasionally. Cash machines usually only carried money in twenties, tens and fives, and some only carried twenties.
Of course the confiscation is criminal, but don’t these people have any friends. If I was their friend I would have told them that walking into an airport is the exact same thing as walking into a federal police station. Would you walk into a federal police station holding a huge bag of cash? I wouldn’t. I would have advised them not to, also.
It is not a crime. It is an over zealous cop.
People are so distanced from cash these days they think any wad of more than $20 is drug money.
Drug king pins weigh their cash..they don’t count it.
Walking into a bank with that much cash will involve the feds just as surely as being caught carrying it.
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That’s true.
Once you have that much cash you’re pretty much stuck with that much cash.
But she wasn’t leaving the country. She was taking a domestic flight.
Should have rented a car and driven, or even found a car service that would drive her where she was going.
I fill up my tank every other day. I have to use primium. For most of the 182k miles I have on my FR-S I filled up at Kroger, which charged thirty cents more a gallon, while all the others charged sixty cents more. Well, they just went up to the same as everybody else a few months ago. I don’t get gas there any more.
So, I was at the new five star station on my commute this morning and noticed regular was $2.19, so I knew I would pay $2.79. But it was $2.89.
I politely walked into their pay area and explained that because they are gouging me even more than the standard rate, I will never purchase gas at any of their stations again, not for this car that I fill up every two days, but my other three cars that all burn regular. I was nice about it, but I felt that I needed them to know why.
Per the article, the feds sent her a letter stating that they were keeping the money citing the broad language of the forfeiture law.
This is sensitive to me because I may be in a situation where I need to bring a LOT of gold across the country. So far, the safest way seems to be by vehicle. That is, unless I want to use brinks or something We’ll see. It’s only worth five figures, so I’ll have to consider risk/cost/reward.
Reporting is one thing...taking is a whole other matter.
Yep.. We finally have a President who says what he means and means what he says.. He would need 20 terms to get to everything on the checklist.
If there had been a crime they would have arrested her. Per the article she made through the TSA checkpoint and went into a coffee shop when the State Police and DEA agent showed up. She told them her story and then cops called her dad and said their stories didn’t match and seized the cash. Pretty weak tactics but they worked on her. They would have had to drag me out of there and produce a warrant to search my property.
That could be a simple as her saying that her dad gave her the cash that night and him saying he gave the cash that afternoon...
The only thing she is required to give them is her proof of identification when they ask for it, which is a lawful order. After that she should have told them to pound sand and say nothing more than “LAWYER”.
Doesn’t give anyone the right to just take it baring evidence of a crime
I’ve been through this myself
They took 240,000 out of my regular biz account and charged me 60,000 so I could get my money back to pay bills.
This is what they do.
Local cops it’s all about the money cause they get to keep it.
Use it for junkets for crime symposiums to Rome
Deer camp for deputies
New nice Raptor trucks
Fancy overkill black guns
The usual
This effing sheet needs to be stopped it’s been going on since Giuliani first figured RICO could be used on the mob
That paved the way for confiscatory regs that now mean they take it
And it’s up to you to hire a lawyer and go thru hell to get it back
And they always charge a commission even if they give it back
They should be unable to confiscate assets baring a conviction.
Freeze them if you have ample proof maybe ....but that’s it
They won’t.
So it’s ok to seize suspicious funds baring conviction
Am I on the right forum
Sadly yes
Untrue
Business deposits are not treated like personal
Personal you simply fill out a form
They need to raise it from 9,999.99
That was set in like 1980
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over.
UPS will transport gold. You can declare it or not. Insurance would be a couple hundred dollars and obviously you would get tracking. Check with a call before sending though—they change some of their rules like I change my socks.
You could send it registered mail. Insurance would be more. And they will take good care of it.
The only issue with driving it is making sure no one knows you have it. I always have a couple of pieces with me on long driving trips. But, I always carry it on me.
I’ve thought that same thing. If they want it they probably have already gotten it.
What investigation?
There was no investigation. The cash was seized under the asset forfeiture laws.
No investigation, no crime, no arrests, no charges.
Just steal the money.
A few years ago some guy tail ended me on the interstate, totaling my car.
When I got the insurance payoff (about $8000), I went to my bank to deposit it in my checking account. You would think I was Bugsy Freaking Capone. The teller buzzed the manager who eyed me suspiciously and asked what the money was from, etc.
She stayed with the teller until the transaction was completed, asking questions and glancing at the check, then back at me, then the check, then back at me.
Thank you, War on Drugs and Patriot Act.
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