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Prove Your Innocence, Keep Your Own Property!
List of assets confiscated by feds stretches over hundreds of pages
WND
Millions of dollars in folding cash, exotic cars, gold jewelry, rare weapons and even boxes of iPhones are being offered by the government back to their owners, if they can prove their innocence.
It’s more evidence that America is becoming a police state, according to the author of “Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming Our Reality.”
“The lists of all the properties and cash the federal government has taken in recent months are breathtaking,” said Cheryl Chumley. “But what’s worse is it’s not really known just how much of that cash, or how many of those properties, are the result of forfeitures with accompanying investigations that actually led to convictions.”
One part of the government’s vast Internet presence, a section called Forfeiture.gov, posts lists of properties confiscated recently by various law enforcement actions. New lists were posted Monday.
Many of the confiscations are done when police have only suspicion there might have been an offense. And there are complicated procedures to follow if the owners want to reclaim their assets, ranging from two rounds of ammunition worth 20 cents to piles of cash.
Among the seized assets documented in the new lists: The contents of a Chase bank account in Irving, Texas, that contained $39,000.90, meaning federal authorities have the money.
There also are nearly 100 iPhones worth nearly $30,000 formerly owned by a Mr. Li in Memphis, Texas.
Then there is the “$701 in U.S. currency valued at $701 seized on April 20, 2014 in West St. Paul, Minnesota” from Terrell Williams.
A Louis Vuitton purse, worth $2,730, was taken from Kafi Rahman Farrakhan in Puerto Rico, a $41,000 2014 Acura MDX was taken from Tawayne Palacol $206,801 in cash came from Tung Wing Ho.
The website has links to confiscated property lists for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, U.S. Attorney’s office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Post Inspection Service and the U.S. Secret Service.
Reposted with permission
