How the government uses a ‘legal maze’ to ‘wage war’ on Americans’ property, according to this attorney

Institute for Justice senior attorney Dan Alban says the federal government is using civil forfeiture against Americans and their bank accounts

By Teny Sahakian Fox News
Published September 3, 2023 8:30am EDT

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Quote:The federal government is waging war on Americans and their bank accounts through the "legal maze" of civil asset forfeiture, a senior attorney at a nonprofit law firm said.

"The administrative forfeiture process is extremely complex and confusing, and I believe it is confusing by design," the Institute for Justice's Dan Alban told Fox News. "The entire system is set up in a way that stacks the cards against property owners."

"It's designed to cleanly and efficiently take money away from people and give it to the government and not really give them the due process that they're entitled to," added Alban, who represents a number of Americans in their civil forfeiture battles against the government...

Asset forfeiture is a process that allows the government to seize money or other property it suspects is linked to criminal activity. Most federal forfeitures are civil, meaning the government can keep the seized assets without charging or convicting the property owner with a crime.

Fighting to get seized property back is often difficult and expensive since forfeiture effectively places the burden of proof on the property owner, according to Alban. And because it's a civil case, there's no right to a public defender.

...He added that state and federal agencies "have a profit incentive to try to go out and seize someone's property and forfeit it because it ultimately goes into their coffers."...

...Forfeiture generated more than $45.7 billion in revenue for the federal government between 2000 and 2019 and $23 billion for states, according to the Institute for Justice...

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(09-03-2023 09:19 AM)TripleA Wrote:  How the government uses a ‘legal maze’ to ‘wage war’ on Americans’ property, according to this attorney

Institute for Justice senior attorney Dan Alban says the federal government is using civil forfeiture against Americans and their bank accounts

By Teny Sahakian Fox News
Published September 3, 2023 8:30am EDT

EXCERPTS:

Quote:The federal government is waging war on Americans and their bank accounts through the "legal maze" of civil asset forfeiture, a senior attorney at a nonprofit law firm said.

"The administrative forfeiture process is extremely complex and confusing, and I believe it is confusing by design," the Institute for Justice's Dan Alban told Fox News. "The entire system is set up in a way that stacks the cards against property owners."

"It's designed to cleanly and efficiently take money away from people and give it to the government and not really give them the due process that they're entitled to," added Alban, who represents a number of Americans in their civil forfeiture battles against the government...

Asset forfeiture is a process that allows the government to seize money or other property it suspects is linked to criminal activity. Most federal forfeitures are civil, meaning the government can keep the seized assets without charging or convicting the property owner with a crime.

Fighting to get seized property back is often difficult and expensive since forfeiture effectively places the burden of proof on the property owner, according to Alban. And because it's a civil case, there's no right to a public defender.

...He added that state and federal agencies "have a profit incentive to try to go out and seize someone's property and forfeit it because it ultimately goes into their coffers."...

...Forfeiture generated more than $45.7 billion in revenue for the federal government between 2000 and 2019 and $23 billion for states, according to the Institute for Justice...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/government...g-attorney

We have no one to blame but ourselves. We (not I) voted these criminals into office. Keep an eye on ones who buy up the land in Lahina. I'm looking at you Blackrock.

Bailing out the banks will go down as the worst decision in American history. We gave the criminals free reign to do whatever they want without consequences.