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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 in cash and millions more in jewelry and other valuables that agents found in about 369 boxes, based...

Illustration from the FBI’s asset-forfeiture webpage, a division of white-collar crime. LOS ANGELES (CN) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily barred federal agents from seizing property from people who claim the government’s civil forfeiture of their safe deposit boxes violates their constitutional rights. In March, FBI agents armed with warrants crowded a Beverly Hills strip mall and seized the contents of hundreds of safe deposit boxes inside U.S. Private Vaults. The commercial facility houses over 800 safe deposit boxes and allows customers to rent them anonymously.  Authorities...

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 FBI's constitutionally dubious raid say they've 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 she'd promised to pass down to her daughter — almost by accident. She'd been asked by a friend to recommend a convenient and secure location for kee...

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson becomes a revolutionary act.  -- George Orwell First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.  -- Mahatma Gandhi Posted on | May 11, 2021 | No Comments The FBI Seized Heirlooms, Coins, and Cash From Hundreds of Safe Deposit Boxes in Beverly Hills, Despite Knowing ‘Some’ Belonged to ‘Honest Citizens’… …Victims of the FBI’s constitutionally dubious raid say they’ve been told to come forward and identify thems...