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The privacy invasion was vast when FBI agents drilled and pried their way into 1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills. They rummaged through personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer,...

Newly unsealed court documents show that the FBI and U.S. attorney’s office in L.A. got the warrant for the raid by misleading the judge who approved it.

The company that ran a Beverly Hills store that rented out safe deposit boxes has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring with customers to launder drug money.

Print Federal authorities have suffered two new court setbacks in their attempt to confiscate tens of millions of dollars seized from Beverly Hills safe deposit boxes that the government was legally barred from searching. U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, in rulings issued Friday, rejected prosecutors’ rationale for keeping the cash that two people stored in the boxes they rented at the U.S. Private Vaults store on West Olympic Boulevard. The FBI is trying to confiscate about $86 million ...

Customers of U.S. Private Vaults are suing the FBI over its attempt to confiscate gold and silver, jewelry and $86 million in cash from safe deposit boxes.

Mon, 10 May 2021 22:28 UTC Victims of the FBIs constitutionally dubious raid say theyve been told to come forward and identify themselves if they want their stuff back. © Photo 13306534 Davidgn | Dreamstime.comDagny discovered that the FBI had seized the contents of her safe deposit box — about $100,000 in gold and silver coins, some family heirlooms like a diamond necklace inherited from her late grandmother, and an engagement ring shed promised to pass down to her daughter — almos...

Legal Challenges After Feds Seize Safe Boxes In Beverly Hills - Beverly Hills, CA - Five customers at U.S. Private Vaults claim the FBI violated their constitutional rights by seizing their safe boxes as evidence.

Print A retired flooring contractor was watching television one night last month when he saw a news report about federal agents raiding U.S. Private Vaults, a store in a Beverly Hills strip mall that let customers rent safe deposit boxes anonymously. He knew the place well. It’s near his home and, for years, he has rented a long, narrow box there to keep about $60,000 in cash, gold and silver. It also contained the title certificate for his pickup truck. The 69-year-old man, who declined to b...

Beverly Hills business raided, accused of helping criminals store guns, cash Published  article Beverly Hills, CA - April 02: FBIs Beverly Hills vault raid challenged in court. A suit alleges that jewelry, currency, coins and bullion illegally seized from safe deposit box in FBIs raid of a private vault U.S. Private Vaults on Friday, April 2, Expand BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A business in a Beverly Hills strip mall that was raided by federal agents contained safe deposit boxes the government...