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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 24718842, member: 105571&quot;]That is certainly true IF YOU ARE THE INTENDED TARGET OF THE INVESTIGATION.&nbsp; Yes, I &quot;shouted&quot; this last because it is pertinent to the discussion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The forfeitures that unjustly occurred in the cited case happened at a private SDB business/facility, not a bank or other financial institution.&nbsp; There were one or more customers of this facility that were being targeted by the Feds in a money laundering investigation.&nbsp; When the Feds raided the facility they just caught everybody that had a box there in a wide net without regard to whether or not there was any justification for it and then just sat on those people&#039;s honestly acquired assets.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Well, just because they could.&nbsp; And, they were suspicious of anyone having hard assets (cash, coins, jewels) &quot;hidden away&quot; because, you know, it just had to be suspicious.&nbsp; Why else would anyone &quot;hide&quot; their assets from the Feds?&nbsp; The Wall Street Journal had some excellent reporting on this case at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>My point is that if you keep your assets at home, you are extremely unlikely to get caught up in a net cast for someone else.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few years ago, there was a rash of civil forfeitures along the I-95 corridor.&nbsp; Motorists would be pulled aside and their persons and vehicles searched because they matched a &quot;profile&quot; for drug couriers.&nbsp; If you happened to have cash on you in any amount, it would be confiscated even if there was no valid suspicion of illegal activity.&nbsp; The police departments just said merely having a significant amount of cash on you (anything more than a few hundred dollars) was ipso facto suspicious.&nbsp; Good luck to those innocents trying to get their money back.&nbsp; The police departments had a financial incentive to abuse the citizenry with this legalized theft because the department got to keep and spend a portion of the funds.&nbsp; After a public hue and cry, this practice was halted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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