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In 2013, I embarked on an in-depth investigation of civil asset forfeiture for this magazine.
He must sue to get them back.Many police departments now depend on forfeiture for a fat chunk of their budgets.
Hundreds of state and federal laws authorize forfeiture for cockfighting, drag racing, basement gambling, endangered-fish poaching, securities fraud, and countless other misdeeds.
(Read Sarah Stillman's piece on civil forfeiture for a fuller sense of how this sort of practice is life-disrupting, increasingly prevalent, and somehow legal).
The Cato Institute has been critical of forfeiture for years, but Mr. Pilon had a broader criticism: "Government grows each time there's a crisis," he said, "and this is an executive branch that thinks it's a law unto itself.
It paid federal authorities $110m in forfeiture, for allowing transactions later proved to be connected to drug smuggling, and incurred a $50m fine for failing to monitor cash used to ship 22 tons of cocaine.
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In that instance, a British bank, Lloyd's TSB, agreed to $350 million in fines and forfeitures for stripping out details that would have identified as illegal more than $300 million worth of Iranian transactions running through the U.S. financial system.
Hewlett-Packard Admits to International Bribery and Money Laundering SchemesHP will pay $108 million in fines and forfeitures for bribing officials in Russia, Poland, and Mexico with elaborate slush funds.
We note, however, that, as with all violations of the Communications Act or the Commission's rules, the Commission has the authority to impose forfeitures for violations of Section 325(b)(3)(C).
The Commission proposed the statutory maximum forfeiture of $27,500 for each of 26 apparent indecency violations, for a total of $755,000.
However, even in countries where social coverage is broad, social inequalities in health persist, ; for example, the forfeiture of health care for economic reasons affected up to 15% of the adult population in France in 2008.
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