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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blake Davis, post: 24802795, member: 91820&quot;]US Customs is not only difficult but it is corrupt - I found that out representing someone accused of smuggling - although he was exonerated, we were told that since the government had spent so much money on the prosecution he had to plead guilty to something even if he wasn’t guilty of anything&nbsp; - in this case he had to plead guilty to a phony minor tax charge.&nbsp; But that wasn’t all - There was a search of his apartment and many items of value taken which had nothing to do with the case.&nbsp; Some were returned but not all even though we had photographs taken by the government of what was taken.&nbsp; I sent letter after letter but we were basically told that too bad your client isn’t getting anything else back. I later discovered that such property thefts were common in seizure cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was very much shocked to find out that entities in the federal government were corrupt - I always believed that it didn’t exist at that level - that this was something that only happened in poor countries rules by tyrannies.&nbsp; It was quite an eye opener to find it happening in the US of A and that we were no different than anywhere else.&nbsp; It still bothers me although given recent events it is not surprising.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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