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The IRS and the US Justice Department appear to be violating a new federal policy on the seizure of cash in bank accounts. The IRS and a US attorney are moving forward with the seizure of all the money in ...

May 11th, 2015 Police civil forfeiture is letting the government seize money from people with almost no legal cause. The shady ways police can steal cash that is in the possession of people that aren’t being charged with crimes, plus ...

Simply carrying a large amount of cash in a grocery sack in your car is now sufficient grounds for a police officer to seize your money, a US circuit court has ruled. A panel of the Eighth US Circuit Court ...

Simply questioning civil forfeiture apparently can get you arrested and jailed in Michigan. On Feb. 23, cancer patient Thomas Williams, 72, was featured in a Detroit Free Press article about a drug taskforce’s seizure of his television, cell phone, shotgun, ...

Imagine owning a restaurant for 38 years and working six days a week just to keep the business going – and then watching the federal government drain your bank account even though you did nothing illegal. Sound far-fetched? It actually ...

Chris and Markela Sourovelis are suing Philadelphia, the district attorney’s office, and the police department to shut down one of the most aggressive forfeiture units in the country. It all started one afternoon last May when Chris Sourvelis received a ...

Elizabeth Young is now homeless and without a car because her son dealt small amounts of marijuana. The Philadelphia district attorney’s office seized the 69-year-old widow’s house and minivan through civil forfeiture even though she was never charged with a ...

It sounds almost like something out of an old Dukes of Hazzard television show: A man wins $50,000 at the casino, gets stopped for speeding, and has all of his money seized by a cop, who doesn’t charge him with ...

It may no longer be safe to carry cash with you when you drive on interstates in America. A Minnesota couple found this out the hard way when police in Iowa seized nearly $50,000 in cash from them without a ...

Tan Nguyen and Ken Smith had their cash and property taken by what some would call a modern day outlaw while driving on one of America’s busiest highways: Interstate 80 in Northern Nevada. The most disturbing thing about the two ...