DEA and Asset Forfeiture = Millions of $$$$$&

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dea-regularly-mines-americans-travel-records-to-seize-millions-in-cash/ar-BBvtMex?li=BBnbcA1

. . . after she produced paperwork showing that much of the money had indeed come from her boyfriend’s retirement fund — the Justice Department agreed to return the money, minus $4,000. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Detroit, Gina Balaya, said prosecutors concluded that “a small percentage of the funds should be forfeited.”. . .

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The DEA came under fire for harvesting travel records two years ago, when Amtrak’s inspector general revealed that agents had paid a secretary $854,460 over nearly two decades in exchange for passenger information.
 
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