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    Default Re: Cops forced to return 1,000,000$ cash to dancer

    Quote Originally Posted by IsobelWren View Post
    I read that and was like, now THAT'S a shitty way to transport money and a shitty investment to sink your money into. I can easily see this going the other way and the cops having to return fuckall. I keep any "spare" cash in investments...not that there's a lot of spare cash lying around. She would have had to pay taxes on it, true, but she would have been making interest that whole time. 15 years is a lot of interest.
    What type of investments? How did you start learning to be financial savvy?
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    More fear-mongering? Really? Yes, this is not the 1990's anymore. Yes, things are changing. Either dance or don't. Freaking out and sowing fear isn't going to help anyone.




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    Default Re: Cops forced to return 1,000,000$ cash to dancer

    Am I the only one who thinks the fact she was a dancer might just be a convenient excuse for getting caught carrying that kind of cash? The whole thing sounds fishy to me.
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    Default Re: Cops forced to return 1,000,000$ cash to dancer

    People in the industry quite often have large amounts of cash.

    Having a large amount of cash is no reason that cops have the right to take it away from them.
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    Default Re: Cops forced to return 1,000,000$ cash to dancer

    feds seem to finally have given up on this


    http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/...exotic-dancer/

    civil forfeiture laws need to go

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    Default Re: Cops forced to return 1,000,000$ cash to dancer

    Thank all the gods they made the cops give it back. There was a sheriff in Daytona Beach who would set up fake roadblocks and only bust people who turned around to avoid them.

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    Default Re: Cops forced to return 1,000,000$ cash to dancer

    Any info on what the dancer did while her million dollars was tied up for the last year and a half?
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    Default Re: Cops forced to return 1,000,000$ cash to dancer

    Y'know, the whole forfeiture regime has to be dealt with and reformed. I understand where the presumption came from that having a very large pile of cash on you is cause to suspect criminal activity, and there's a rational basis for it, but applying it in an arbitrary zero-tolerance manner and even in cases where there are no charges filed at all is an utter injustice. There has got to be more to sustain a forfeiture beyond "we're not satisfied with your explanation". LEAs across the country have resorted to it as a source of income and assets and a way to pad their statistics.

    Oh, and BTW:
    Q:"Do you give us permission to search your car?"
    A: "No, sir."

    If they have probable cause to conduct a search then they will do so whether or not you give permission; let it happen the way the law says it should happen.

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    However it is also true that had they put that money temporarily in an account or an asset holding somewhere until they closed the deal, the cops would have had nothing to impound. It would have been safe. Must admit I have a hard time wrapping my head around the notion that there are people in America who fear an out-of-the-blue Cyprus/Argentina style confiscation of the value of bank or brokerage accounts with no warning whatsoever any day now. Honestly?

    But even so, if you'd rather not put your money long-term in a licensed and regulated domestic bank, then by all means turn it into some sort of legitimate productive or at least stable asset -- rental properties, gold (the real kind stored in a secure bonded vault you can actually get to, not some paper that says you have a gold share somewhere), whatever -- and when you do need money then cash out what you need and swallow your pride and park it short-term in an account. Carting it around as bales of greenbacks (or stacks of gold coins FWIW) is a far, FAR higher risk of loss. If accident or criminal mischief doesn't get it, the cops will declare it "suspicious" and seek to grab it under civil forfeiture.

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    Default Re: Cops forced to return 1,000,000$ cash to dancer

    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser View Post
    http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs...151044009.html

    Thank all the gods they made the cops give it back. There was a sheriff in Daytona Beach who would set up fake roadblocks and only bust people who turned around to avoid them. Anyone with large amounts of cash had it seized and many never got it back. They will use the 'trace remnants on the dollars to convict you in many areas.

    Fifteen years earnings, one million dollars--that's pretty cool.
    I think this is the same judge that will be ruling in gay marriage this week in NEB. The big REDneck state. He had previously ruled gm as legal and was overturned on appeal. He can prob make it stick this time. I don't know how a judge with a rational approach is still on the bench.

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