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Donor sues GOP for fraud, racketeering after failed Obamacare repeal

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“A retired attorney in Virginia Beach is so incensed that Republicans couldn’t repeal the Affordable Care Act that he’s suing to get political donations back, accusing the GOP of fraud and racketeering.  Bob Heghmann, 70, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court, saying the national and Virginia Republican parties and some GOP leaders raised millions of dollars in campaign funds while knowing they weren’t going to be able to overturn the law also known as Obamacare.”

Read more: https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/republican-donor-from-virginia-beach-sues-gop-accusing-the-party/article_f7e5e7ec-f6ad-5d09-90d5-29774701b0c2.html

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John Whitehead: Anything Goes When You’re a Cop in America

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“Not only are cops protected from most charges of wrongdoing—whether it’s shooting unarmed citizens (including children and old people), raping and abusing young women, falsifying police reports, trafficking drugs, or soliciting sex with minors—but even on the rare occasions when they are fired for misconduct, it’s only a matter of time before they get re-hired again.”

Read more: http://rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/anything_goes_when_youre_a_cop_in_america

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How a Dog Named Brutus Was Used to Steal $36,000

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“The police took more than half of the state’s median yearly income from someone because a dog sat next to their car. If you think this is a horrific injustice, you should feel relieved to know the overwhelming majority of Americans agree with you.  Civil asset forfeiture is the formal name for this form of state sanctioned theft.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/how-a-dog-named-brutus-was-used-to-steal-36000/

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Jeff Sessions: Justice Department Will Increase Asset Forfeiture

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“U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department will issue new directives to increase the federal govenment’s use of civil asset forfeiture, a controversial practice that allows law enforcement to seize property from suspected criminals without charging them with a crime. He has already dismantled Obama-era directives on drug sentencing guidelines and ordered a review of all of the existing consent agreements between the Justice Department and police departments that were found to be violating residents’ constitutional rights.”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/17/sessions-announces-justice-department-wi

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IRS Seizes Wedding Boutique, Sells Everything for Next to Nothing

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“The elderly Thai immigrants sunk their life savings into designer wedding dresses and were left penniless when the IRS sold them all, according to the couple’s attorney. The legal filing claims that the agent on the case originally recognized that the entire inventory would not need to be sold to satisfy the debt. However, Freeman obtained internal IRS communications through a Freedom of Information Act Request and found that IRS higher-ups decided that the agency should ‘shut down this failing business.'”

Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/19/feds-getting-sued-for-improper-irs-seizu

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Cop didn’t know his body cam was filming him planting drugs

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“The officer’s alleged trickery was revealed by the fact that his body cam retained footage for 30 seconds before it was activated to begin recording. During that time, according to the footage and the Baltimore public defender’s office, Officer Richard Pinheiro puts a bag of pills in a can in an alley and walks out of the alley.”

Read more: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/cop-didnt-know-his-body-cam-was-on-footage-shows-him-planting-drugs/

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The Second Half Of The Pincer

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“Senate Bill 1241 requires that anyone travelling beyond US borders declare his assets in writing and in detail, plus provide ongoing access to all accounts held by the individual. In essence, it’s providing the government with a license to track your cash, cryptocurrencies, and other assets in perpetuity. Should, at any point, your declaration come into question as to its accuracy, the entirety of those assets could be seized, not just those that were unreported. In addition, you could face a prison sentence of up to five years.”

Read more: http://www.internationalman.com/articles/the-second-half-of-the-pincer

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US to criminalize undeclared cash, bitcoin, gift cards, prepaid phones

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“Have too much cash? You’d better tell the government.  If not, they’re authorizing themselves in this bill to seize not just the money you didn’t report, but ALL of your assets and bank accounts.  They even go so far as to specifically name ‘safety deposit boxes’ among the various assets that they can seize if you don’t fill out the form.”

Read more: https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/you-wont-believe-this-stupid-new-law-against-cash-and-bitcoin-22019/

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The DEA’s $4 Billion Warrantless Cash Grab

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“Federal law enforcement officers are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars a year with little oversight or constitutional protections for property owners.  Most of these types of seizures are never challenged.  The I.G. found petitions were filed in only 20 percent of the DEA cash seizures it reviewed. Of those that were challenged, though, 40 percent saw money fully or partially returned to the owner, indicating that there may be a significant number of unfounded seizures going unchallenged.”

Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2017/06/11/the-deas-warrantless-cash-grab

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Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal

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“As Judge Katherine Forrest explained at the time, Ulbricht’s life sentence was intended also to send a message to other would-be dark web drug kingpins. Her strategy appears to have backfired, at least in the short term: Sales on Silk Road successor sites doubled in the immediate wake of Ulbricht’s sentence, as news of the trial’s outcome raised awareness of the dark web drug market.”

Read more: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-loses-life-sentence-appeal/

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