And when the ‘D’onkey Party cohorts come to the fore and say that the FBI does not over-reach, point them to that seized private ‘safe deposit’ facility in California where the DoJ & FBI LIED TO THE COURT about what their preplanned intentions were. They told the court issuing the search&seizure order that the agents would only open the boxes for identification and nothing more.
On 22 March 2021, the Government was granted the legal right to search&seize the business of U.S. Private Vaults, Beverly Hills, CA, on the basis of the ownership being charged/indicted with money laundering. Yet, while doing that, the agents constructively seized the contents of the 800 boxes located in that office. While some fraction of these box contents are returned or in process of being returned, the majority are under active process of ‘Civil Forfeiture’, a process where the authorities ASSUME the contents were the results of a crime. To fight the seizure, the owner basically has to PROVE INNOCENT ownership.
This is the same as those cases where someone returns a winner fro a gambling trip and TSA ‘suspects’ their winnings are criminal and seizes the same. UGLY and a likely violation of the 4th Amendment except for the legal precedents based upon the ‘War on Drugs’.
“a likely violation of the 4th Amendment”
A definite violation of the 4th amendment, whether the courts have gotten around to recognizing it or not. The amendment’s language is plain enough for a child to understand, so there’s no need to bandy words.