The FBI is beyond dirty. These were private lock boxes, the FBI likes to ignore the 4th Amendment. Lawsuit filed after FBI agents raided 1,400 deposit boxes at a US Private Vaults branch claims owners' items have still not been returned
This will not stop until that branch of the FBI agency is completely shut down, and all of those agents are in prison.
Was a long thread during Trump administration about LE seizures. Not a new complaint. These seem likely to be heavily criminal holdings.
If the allegations are accurate the Bureau clearly acted improperly. That being said the search of the Beverly Hills branch of US Private Vaults is no way analogous to the search of Mar-a-Lago and if you're trying to compare the two searches you're way over the top. In simple terms the search of the Beverly Hills facility appears to be a fishing expedition based on an apparently deceptive affidavit filed with the court to obtain the search warrant. Not the case at all with the Mar-a-Lago search. The affidavit was meticulously detailed and apparently a number of the items specified in the affidavit had supposedly been returned to the government prior to the search according to a filing by Trump's own attorneys who either acted unethically or much more likely were the victims of lies by the their own client, a pathological liar incapable of telling the truth.
This is the typical MAGA gameplan: 1. Find some tenuous connection to Obama or Hillary. 2. Find a non-analagous situation and say it is the same. 3. Say it's ok only when Trump does it anyhow.
Once again, even assuming his descriptions of those incidents are accurate none are even remotely similar to the search of Mar-a-Lago.
Wow, a lot of people quickly became defund the police types as soon as somebody they consider in their in-group received any sort of law enforcement activity against them. As a reminder:
As a point of information the FBI was actively involved in multiple investigations of the Clintons. Clinton Scandals: A Guide From Whitewater To The Clinton Foundation FBI Collects Whitewater Documents
Posted earlier: “In simple terms the search of the Beverly Hills facility appears to be a fishing expedition based on an apparently deceptive affidavit filed with the court to obtain the search warrant.” Hmmm…sounds like 2016 and Russia collusion all over again.
From LATimes 9/17/22 : "Federal agents had suspected for years that criminals were stashing loot there, and they assert that’s exactly what they found. The government is trying to confiscate $86 million in cash and a stockpile of jewelry, rare coins and precious metals taken from about half of the boxes." This is from a storage operation in a strip mall.
My impression is that affidavit and search warrant authorized a search of all of the safe deposit boxes located at the facility (I could be mistaken). If the affidavit and warrant specified which boxes were to be searched based on credible evidence that they were being used to store cash and other items obtained through criminal activity there would not have been any problem.
