Ferrari seized by FBI and featured in TV show sells for $760,000 at U.S. Marshals auction
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Court Blocks Unconstitutional Government Seizure of Mongols Motorcycle Club Trademark
More than 10 years ago, the Department of Justice launched an unconstitutional campaign of censorship against a motorcycle club and its mostly Latino membership. Now a federal court has decided against the government, sharply criticizing its overreach and abuse of power. Under the guise of a racketeering prosecution using a law known as RICO, the […]
Can the Trump Administration Use Asset Forfeiture Funds to Build the Border Wall?
Hawaiian vacation. Margarita machine. Sparkles the Clown. Are we going to add Trump’s border wall to the list of “ridiculous things” that civil asset forfeiture funds have been spent on? It seems so if left up to this administration. On Friday, two congressional Republicans told the Associated Press that the administration had been looking at […]
Airport Pirates Find Bounty in a College Student’s Life Savings
Today, our friends at the Institute for Justice launched a new challenge to yet another instance of egregious civil asset forfeiture abuse. Charles Clarke is a 24‐year‐old college student who found out the hard way that government officials can confiscate property on the mere suspicion that it has a “substantial connection” to a crime or […]
Stopping the abuse of civil forfeiture
The writer, a Republican, represents Michigan’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House. Imagine you are driving down the highway on your way to buy a car. You spent months researching years, makes and models, and you finally found somebody who was selling the exact ride you were looking for at a reasonable price. Suddenly, […]
Government self-interest corrupted a crime-fighting tool into an evil
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Asset Forfeitures:The Free Market and Property Rights
As Cecilia Ibru goes to prison for bank fraud as a result of her plea bargain, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) prosecutors have shown that they can score victory in the prosecution of those who basically loot financial institutions. It provides an initial victory for the Lamido Sanusi led Central Bank of Nigeria […]
Stealing Is Wrong, Even When It’s The Government Doing It
Stealing Is Wrong, Even When It’s The Government Doing It Daniel J. Mitchell Aug 23, 2011,11:32am EDT As a grumpy libertarian, I routinely get agitated about taxes, spending, and regulation. As far as I’m concerned, much of government is a racket that uses coercion to reward interest groups with unearned wealth. But there are degrees […]
The FBI Is Trying to Keep More Cash Seized from a Beverly Hills Vault
The FBI Is Trying to Keep More Cash Seized from a Beverly Hills Vault It’s been months since the feds confiscated money and other valuables from safe deposit boxes in a Beverly Hills strip mall, but they’ve yet to produce evidence that crimes were committed IAN SPIEGELMANSEP 20, 2021 Three months after a judge issued […]
A Judge Tells the FBI It Can’t Keep Millions in Loot Seized from a Beverly Hills Vault
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Judge finds no rights violations in FBI seizure of Beverly Hills safe-deposit boxes
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