The FBI Lied to a Judge So They Could
Bust Open Thousands of Safety Deposit Boxes
Townhall.com,
by
Katie Pavlich
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
9/26/2022 11:42:47 AM
It looks like the FBI is in for yet another scandal.
According to a new report from the LA Times, FBI agents busted into thousands of safety deposit boxes in California. After they rummaged through the private property of innocent people, it turns out they lied to a federal judge to get access to the boxes in the first place.
"The privacy invasion was vast when FBI agents drilled and pried their way into 1,400 safe-deposit boxes at the U.S. Private Vaults store in Beverly Hills. They rummaged through personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer, a retired doctor, a flooring contractor,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
volksford 9/26/2022 11:49:08 AM (No. 1288172)
What a worthless piece of information....so what was the BASIS for the warrant?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 9/26/2022 12:10:07 PM (No. 1288202)
Hey Hannity, are you ever going to revise downward your high percentage number? While FBI Director Christopher "Wicked" Wray laughs at you. Oh wait, could that be Mitch "MultiUseless" McConnell getting ready to write another "stern" letter?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 9/26/2022 12:16:49 PM (No. 1288207)
Well of course they did. It’s all they do.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 9/26/2022 12:29:10 PM (No. 1288222)
The FBI is rotten from the lowest window washer to the director. Abolishment of this agency is badly needed.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
blueline 9/26/2022 1:05:02 PM (No. 1288249)
The FBI lied. Seems to be a given these days.
If they ask you what time it is, get a lawyer before you answer.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lakerman1 9/26/2022 1:11:36 PM (No. 1288256)
There are consequences for lying to a judge. The judge has wide latitude to penalize the liar.
If a judge refuses to do that, he or she should be removed.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
felixcat 9/26/2022 1:20:24 PM (No. 1288263)
As for Sean Hannity - I ignore him and have for years, but when someone like Sen. Mike Lee of Utah goes on Maria Bartiromo's show yesterday and is asked about the FBI and the first thing he says is (and I paraphrase): We must remember that the vast majority of FBI agents and employees are honest, hard working blah blag blah. I changed the channel.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/26/2022 1:20:27 PM (No. 1288264)
I have never understood why anyone would believe that a bank safe deposit box was safe. Another cash cow for the banks.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
faceincrowd 9/26/2022 1:20:57 PM (No. 1288265)
FBI badge = license to steal. I'll bet the Mafia is jealous as hell.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/26/2022 1:23:41 PM (No. 1288267)
This was not even at a bank! A rent-a-vault commercial enterprise.
What fool keeps a will in a SDB? Conventional wisdom says no. It needs to be accessible when the vault holder kicks the bucket.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/26/2022 1:28:47 PM (No. 1288272)
Katie could have gone further. From the original Los Angeles Times article she quotes and cites:
They omitted from their warrant request a central part of the FBI’s plan: Permanent confiscation of everything inside every box containing at least $5,000 in cash or goods, a senior FBI agent recently testified.
The FBI’s justification for the dragnet forfeiture was its presumption that hundreds of unknown box holders were all storing assets somehow tied to unknown crimes, court records show.
It took five days for scores of agents to fill their evidence bags with the bounty: More than $86 million in cash and a bonanza of gold, silver, rare coins, gem-studded jewelry and enough Rolex and Cartier watches to stock a boutique.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-23/fbi-beverly-hills-safe-deposit-box-raid-forfeiture-judge
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/26/2022 1:59:02 PM (No. 1288306)
The linked article above is quite informative. I would nominate it for a Must Read by itself. Our Jack Boot FBI/DOJ are now tantamount to Pirates of the Caribbean, launching into banks and places of safe deposit to amass wealth and attain career fame.
Everything our Founding Fathers wished to prevent from happening in this country, is finally happening.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/26/2022 2:34:03 PM (No. 1288334)
Local and state cops were raking in the dough through roadside cash confiscation, so the Feds got in on it.
Calling Sean, calling Sean....
3 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
hershey 9/26/2022 2:52:03 PM (No. 1288352)
Lot to be said about keeping your money in your mattress these days...or a secret place in you house, or buried in the flower garden......
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
bassman 9/26/2022 5:11:23 PM (No. 1288454)
The FBI is now the FIB!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bobn.t 9/26/2022 6:26:06 PM (No. 1288522)
Th thugs lied to a judge.
He ought to have them locked up, for about 2years each.
Disband the FBI.
The can't be trusted.
They are waging war against the citizenry.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 9/27/2022 12:36:19 AM (No. 1288719)
Better check Fort Knox!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
EQKimball 9/27/2022 12:49:50 AM (No. 1288727)
Here is something I posted many hours ago. It disappeared without a trace within minutes. It is not the first time this has happened. It only happens when my post reveals acquired knowledge of the legal system.
A request to search 1,400 unrelated safe deposit boxes is extraordinary. The very nature of such a request is so extravagant as to raise many questions. A diligent judge would almost certainly ask questions and require supplementation of an affidavit of probable cause. However, not all judges are fastidious in reviewing a search warrant. Detectives and federal agents know which ones are the friendly judges who sign warrants without much hesitation. Getting your warrant to one of them is easier at night and on weekends, when fewer judges make themselves available.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
5 handicap 9/27/2022 5:35:39 AM (No. 1288758)
Makes no difference what the basis of the warrant was...Burn down the house of the judge! That's the only way we'll ever stop continued overreach...
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
broken01 9/27/2022 10:53:48 AM (No. 1289010)
I do wonder how Hannity feels about his beloved FBI now as since I no longer listen to or watch him anymore. He's become a yammering poor man's Rush Limbaugh. Just like the two hosts who come on during his 12 o'clock time slot. Now as far as the FBI aka the FSBI lying. They lied to get the ability to spy on PDJT before during and after he was president and are still at it as I type this. So what the heck else is new. The only good things about the FSBI at this point are those shows on CBS by Dick Wolf and even they're starting to stink.
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