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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I always wondered how asset forfeiture is considered legal when it in a sense amounts to an assumption of guilt or a bill of attainder
The new America — The government just assumes that you are guilty until you can prove that you are innocent.
This one is going to leave a mark - on the state. And it’s about time.
People have cash. Sometimes they save a lot of it. It doesn’t mean you are selling drugs. And it is not proof you are selling drugs. The state has become the modern highwayman.
I wonder what they would do if she had had $200,000 in gold coins.
If people realized just how bad it really is the shooting would start with in the hour.
I hope they sue and are successful. It’s outrageous that a law-abiding citizen isn’t allowed to carry around whatever amount of cash they want to. Is it smart of her? Probably not. But it’s her business, not Big Brother’s.
I've always found you somewhat suspicious.
...or worse, or just as bad, withdrawals.
Even the bank has to report deposits over $10K these days.
I’ve heard they want to abolish the $100 bill because it makes money laundering too easy. Funny thing is that it is worth about as much as a ten dollar bill in the 70’s, and yet we all carried twenties and even fifties back then, no problem.
At the end of the day, this is really about the government’s war on cash. They can’t track it so they want it eliminated.
I see a few real potential flashpoints now. People around here have talked about CWII for awhile and maybe it hasn’t always been a very serious discussion. But more and more it becomes obvious that Normal people cannot live with the Socialists. At some point, something’s got to give.
Heaven forbid folks keep their powder dry...
Stopped at the local Burger King in Sturgis, this week and saw a large sign at the cash register that they are not taking any bills larger than a twenty, because of too many forgeries. Who knew?
Back in 2013 there was a local family owned grocery store whose bank account containing $35,000 was seized because they were making constant deposits just less than $10K in a bank across the street from the store.
The reason they were doing it was to minimize their cash on hand in case they were robbed in order to keep their insurance rates down.
It was all perfectly legal but the Feds didn't think so.......
The owners fought it for about 10 months before the case was finally dismissed....
What kind of low life dirtbag person would steal a person’s labor and earnings?
A Democrat
A cop
A unionist
Go pull out $15,000 in cash from your savings and attempt to go through some significant airport. If the TSA guy does some bag check...just watch the events that unfold and how quick they want to drag you into a room to interrogate you, and attempt to confiscate the cash. Watch the same event with $9,900 and how they let you slide by.
I see why too: greed. Their money was stolen.
Giving the government the power to seize your stuff arbitrarily inevitably leads to bad results:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/11/policing-for-profit-police-seize-assets-to-pad-budget/
A drug warrior.
In the end, we get the government we deserve/have allowed.
I’d say there’s a decent chance. In which case Dad deserves protection from his kinfolk.
And, while I don't think it is wise to travel with that much cash precisely because of crooks (including those who work for the government), that still does not justify the seizure.
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