Posted on 09/26/2022 9:05:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The FBI and US Attorney’s Office misled a judge who issued a warrant for a controversial raid on a Beverly Hills safety deposit company that uncovered $86 million in cash and millions more other assets, according to a new report.
A senior FBI agent recently testified that central to the plan, and not disclosed to the judge, was the permanent confiscation of the contents of every box that contained at least $5,000 in cash or goods, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The alleged disclosure failure came out in FBI documents and agent depositions in a class-action lawsuit by box holders at U.S. Private Vaults, who say the 2021 raid violated their rights.
The FBI justified the seizure by arguing that the goods were tied to unknown crimes, the Times reported, citing court records.
Court filings also showed that agents defied a judge’s restrictions in the warrant by searching through box holders’ belongings for evidence of crimes, the paper said.
“The government did not know what was in those boxes, who owned them, or what, if anything, those people had done,” Robert Frommer, a lawyer who represents nearly 400 box holders in the class-action case, wrote in court papers, according to the Times.
Agents searched some 800 safety deposit boxes rented by ordinary people, taking cash, jewelry and $1.3 million in poker chips. They photographed password lists, credit cards, a prenuptial agreement, immigration and vaccination records, bank statements, heirlooms and a will, and in one box, even found cremated human remains, the Times reported.
U.S. Private Vaults was charged in a sealed indictment with conspiring to sell drugs and launder money.
The FBI and U.S. attorney’s office denied that they misled the judge or ignored his conditions, according to the Times.
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So who’s going to jail? Who’s being compensated?
Just wait, more raids are coming. Soon they will raid houses and confiscate cash and goods. This is the government we live under now. Fascism
Sue the friggen judges okaying this crap. Better yet, go after their families like the left does to everyone.
I guess this is what the Brandon Administration does when they need more money to send to the Ukies.
The rank-and-file FBI need to realize that the jig is up. The Comey-Garland-Wray FBI is going down.
Whistleblowing is not too late, but you’d better hurry.
Guess when you run out of countries like Libya, Syria, etc, to loot, you start going closer to home. No surprise.
Pretty sure I know who should be going to jail, for a long time.
Natural progression of criminal behavior I suppose?
Which agents and US attorneys bought new homes, cars, vacations. I bet their wives enjoyed the new jewelry.
It’s called “FBI legalized theft”.
This is a test run for future endeavors like this. This is what this is. The 87000 are going to be used to access areas they were never able to. People hiding wealth from the government and making them the enemy of the state
But, it has been done with forfeiture for decades now...
Do you really think the “Left” isn’t working for someone who has the power to out them, shut them down, and ruin their lives as well?
The judge3 signed a warrant that was so vague that it is is probably unconstitutional. Basically, the FIB said that “suspicious persons” had entered the business and they BELIEVED that those persons MIGHT have been involved in criminal activity. So the FIB entered and stole EVERYTHING of value from EVERYONE who had valuables stored in the safe.
How much of the loot is now in Garand’s closet?
the box holders had cash and property
they did not earn that
it needs to be redistributed
welcome to the LEFTIST fbi
I think I recall, when first reported, that they also found GUNS!
No more mention.
Was that speculative reporting at the time? Any more mention of guns?
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