FBI pulls off the largest armed robbery in U.S. history
Jan 25, 2024 23:33:11 GMT
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Post by farmrbrown on Jan 25, 2024 23:33:11 GMT
According to a class action suit that was filed and subsequently dismissed, lol.
www.courthousenews.com/fbi-breached-search-privacy-rights-during-safe-deposit-box-seizure-at-self-storage-facility/#:~:text=LOS%20ANGELES%20(CN)%20—%20A,during%20a%20raid%20in%202021.
But seriously this was a blatant violation of the 4th amendment. The Federal court has finally admitted THAT.
www.courthousenews.com/fbi-breached-search-privacy-rights-during-safe-deposit-box-seizure-at-self-storage-facility/#:~:text=LOS%20ANGELES%20(CN)%20—%20A,during%20a%20raid%20in%202021.
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Ninth Circuit appeals panel found Tuesday that a group of safe deposit box owners' Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure were violated when the FBI seized 700 safe deposit boxes at a self-storage facility in Beverly Hills during a raid in 2021.
The FBI sought the safe deposit boxes as part of its investigation into US Private Vaults, which it suspected of money laundering.
While the FBI did find evidence of criminal activity in some boxes, it also seized boxes belonging to non-criminal safe deposit box owners — who filed a class action against the agency in June 2021 — that contained money, legal documents, jewelry, family trusts and other personal property.
The government told the class members it intended to keep the property at first, but eventually returned it. The plaintiffs still seek equitable relief requiring the government to destroy or return records related to the search.
The decision published Tuesday reverses a lower court ruling from U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, who said that the FBI acted within the scope of its warrant when it seized the safe deposit boxes from US Private Vaults. Klausner rejected the plaintiffs' claims that the FBI had misled a magistrate judge by not specifying it would forfeit the contents of the safety deposit boxes when it requested a search warrant and that the agency had exceeded the scope of the search warrant by searching and seizing the contents of individual safe deposit boxes.
To determine whether the FBI overstepped its warrant, the appeals panel held the government’s actions against the scope of the warrant.
The three-judge appeals panel found that the FBI exceeded the scope of its warrant when it seized the boxes, because the warrant did not authorize the agency for a criminal search or seizure of box contents, and the FBI did not follow its own written policies to inventory items and contact box owners to claim their property after the seizure.
The FBI sought the safe deposit boxes as part of its investigation into US Private Vaults, which it suspected of money laundering.
While the FBI did find evidence of criminal activity in some boxes, it also seized boxes belonging to non-criminal safe deposit box owners — who filed a class action against the agency in June 2021 — that contained money, legal documents, jewelry, family trusts and other personal property.
The government told the class members it intended to keep the property at first, but eventually returned it. The plaintiffs still seek equitable relief requiring the government to destroy or return records related to the search.
The decision published Tuesday reverses a lower court ruling from U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner, who said that the FBI acted within the scope of its warrant when it seized the safe deposit boxes from US Private Vaults. Klausner rejected the plaintiffs' claims that the FBI had misled a magistrate judge by not specifying it would forfeit the contents of the safety deposit boxes when it requested a search warrant and that the agency had exceeded the scope of the search warrant by searching and seizing the contents of individual safe deposit boxes.
To determine whether the FBI overstepped its warrant, the appeals panel held the government’s actions against the scope of the warrant.
The three-judge appeals panel found that the FBI exceeded the scope of its warrant when it seized the boxes, because the warrant did not authorize the agency for a criminal search or seizure of box contents, and the FBI did not follow its own written policies to inventory items and contact box owners to claim their property after the seizure.
But seriously this was a blatant violation of the 4th amendment. The Federal court has finally admitted THAT.
