It Looks Like the FBI Is Realizing It Went Too Far This Time

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The FBI cannot seem to stop trampling American citizens’ constitutional rights.

But some victims of government abuse have fought back. And their tenacity has left the bureau scrambling to save face.

According to Rob Johnson, senior attorney at the nonprofit Institute for Justice, a landmark Fourth Amendment case pending in California might soon result in severe chastisement for the tyrannical FBI.

In 2021, the bureau raided U.S. Private Vaults, a safety storage company based in Beverly Hills, California, on suspicion of money laundering — a charge to which the company later pleaded guilty.

While conducting their raid, however, FBI agents exceeded their authority.

Their search warrant called for them to open safety deposit boxes and then “inspect the contents of the boxes in an effort to identify their owners … so that they can claim their property.”

Instead, under a sweeping and oft-abused system of “civil asset forfeiture,” agents confiscated the boxes’ contents and then refused the return anything worth more than $5,000, even in instances where the government charged the property owners with no crime.

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