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Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: savage nation ()
Date: February 15, 2020 01:20PM

https://michaelsavage.com/government-agents-seized-181500-in-cash-at-airport-and-wont-give-it-back/

The lawsuit claims that in September, the company gave employee Boris Nulman $191,500 and a plane ticket to Cleveland to purchase several big trucks. When the cash in Nulman's carry-on bag went through a Transportation Security Administration scanner, the agents pulled it aside for an inspection.

Nulman was later allowed to leave, but only with $10,000, according to the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. He never went to Cleveland to buy the trucks.

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The lawsuit says an agent gave Nulman a receipt to document the $181,500, but the federal agencies now say only $159,950 was confiscated. That's $21,550 less than what the company says was seized.

"This is legitimate money," Rozenberg said. "There is nothing dirty about this. We have evidence to show we took this out of our business account. Something is fishy here."

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The company says it proved the cash wasn't connected to illegal activity and contends agents violated the U.S. Constitution's Fourth Amendment for warrantless searches and seizures.

Leslie Sammis, a Tampa attorney representing the three men, was in court Thursday and unavailable for comment, the newspaper reported. Officials with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection also could not be reached for comment.

Nulman was questioned for 45 minutes at the security checkpoint and then asked to go to the airport's police station. The company submitted a "verified claims form" to get the money back, the lawsuit said.

A customs official replied in a letter weeks later, saying the agency was seizing $159,950 because it was proceeds from "specified unlawful activity" such as the manufacture, sale or distribution of a controlled substance. The customs letter didn't detail the discrepancy over the amount, according to the newspaper.

The newspaper reported that the government hasn't provided any reason it believes the money came from illegal activities.

The lawsuit contends that using cash to purchase big rigs is a common industry practice. The company had planned to build its fleet with trucks that were not at a dealer or an auction, and the independent owner didn't want a bank wire or cashier's check because of fraud tied to certified checks in Florida, Rozenberg told the newspaper.

He said it's not a crime to carry large amounts of money on a domestic flight, and Nulman, who is Rozenberg's son-in-law, also provided names and phone numbers to verify the money's origin.

After the lawsuit was filed, Rozenberg said he and Nulman received letters from Customs and Border Protection revoking their participation in the Global Entry Program, which allows for pre-approved entry into the U.S. The program requires an application, fingerprinting and extensive background check. Rosenberg told the Times the revocation is no coincidence.

Rozenberg said he's an owner and investor in the trucking company, while Smith manages the daily operation. The money seizure is starting to hurt the firm, he said.

"They are treating us like criminals," said Rozenberg. "This does not make any sense."


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This is the insanity Barack Obama left in usa agencies for Trump to unravel with a democrat majority concgress to graple with.



for all we know both the police and the company are conspiring together to rip off the taxpayer with legal fees - insane but profitable if the taxpayer pays

who is going to pay damages ?

how are police going to stay out of jail themselves?

how can this be "spun" any other way than presented and why should it ?

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: olkjdf ()
Date: February 15, 2020 01:20PM

little red riding hood

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: savage nation ()
Date: February 15, 2020 01:22PM

repeat - cops have kept the money and still have no evidence it was used in a crime and are insisting the owner of the money must sue to get it back (which btw is a big win for government worker pay - all the legal fees paid by taxpayer)

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: get it right, please ()
Date: February 15, 2020 01:26PM

Civil asset forfeiture is a disaster, and it was in place well before the Obama administration.

Get your facts (and resulting opinions) straight.

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: Minnows and Sharks ()
Date: February 15, 2020 01:32PM

Should we worry about the billions Trump seized from the Department of Defense & National Security budgets to build a wall; maybe the hundreds of millions he is seizing to beef up security at his various palaces, and bilk the Secret Service for hotel stays at his resorts?

What about prosecuting the shitbags who seized Trillions of $ in private equity, investments, and retirement portfolios during the 2008 financial crisis? Not a single prosecution.

Feel bad for the guy who had $181,500 seized, but the dumb fuck could have done an on-line electronic funds transfer to virtually move his money, got a cashier's check, or used a major credit card to complete whatever purchase he needed that $181,500 to complete in dumbfuckistan.

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: Early Morning Lawyer ()
Date: February 15, 2020 01:59PM

This is nothing new. Law enforcement and treasury officials have been seizing money for decades from persons who either weren't charged with crimes or whp had the charges dropped almost immediately. I have handled at least a dozen cases which follow this scenario. In almost all of them the government policy was to try and stonewall things in hopes that the owners gave up. Since the cost of fighting seizures can run high, many owners do.

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: something donny could fix ()
Date: February 15, 2020 02:32PM

One thing that should happen is that local jurisdictions (or any jurisdiction for that matter) should NOT be able to utilize any of the funds/goods that are seized...

That might take away some incentive to seize...as it stands now, the seizing jurisdictions can, and do, avail themselves of the seized booty.

Terrible, and unamerican.

Trump should be focusing on things like that...right?

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: k ()
Date: February 15, 2020 02:38PM

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: hyjyjgtr ()
Date: February 15, 2020 02:40PM

U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: k ()
Date: February 16, 2020 12:38AM

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Date: February 16, 2020 12:40PM

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: k ()
Date: February 16, 2020 10:34PM

i have no doubt they seized parts of epstein estate, probably some of his sqeezes, and won't give those back either

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Re: Government agents seized $181,500 in cash at airport and won’t give it back
Posted by: WTOP (tokyo rose) ()
Date: February 16, 2020 10:36PM

democrats in DC National (washington, reagan national before dems renamed it)

aired on WTOP that "they seized cell phones before flights and people should call them to see if the airport admits their cell phone is being held"

IN OTHER WORDS, NIGGER GUARDS WERE STEALING CELL PHONES AND TELLING ANYONE WHO PHONED IN TO GET THEM THAT THE PHONE WAS "NEVER IN DHS INVENTORY"

AND WTOP HELPED PERPETRATE THE CRIME

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Posted by: k ()
Date: February 18, 2020 02:56PM

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Posted by: k ()
Date: February 22, 2020 04:21PM

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Date: February 25, 2020 11:58AM

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Date: February 29, 2020 07:41PM

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Date: March 02, 2020 11:41PM

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Date: March 03, 2020 10:42PM

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