was not ill-gotten? >> that's what the government is trying to put forward. the way they broke into these security boxes violates the constitution, as you pointed out, the fourth amendment. they may have thought that the u.s. private vault, the company did something wrong, but that would be like -- what the fbi did would be like searching every apartment in an apartment building because you found the landlord dealing drugs in the lobby. that's not how the fourth amendment works. >> i don't understand how this could have worked. in other words, how could they have searched safety deposit boxes or the operator of a safety deposit box company without looking in the boxes themselves? by definition this thing was never going to work properly, right? >> no, there was a very easy way they could have done this. the u.s. private vault's company was indicted. the easiest way to have kept everybody's stuff safe would have been just to leave it all in the vault and tell the