DoJ and Jeff Sessions to pursue more Civil Asset Forfeiture #BothSidesAreTheSame

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Justice Dept. signals more police property seizures coming

Justice Dept. signals more police property seizures coming
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department will soon make it easier for local law enforcement to seize cash and property from crime suspects and reap the proceeds, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday.

Sessions said a shift will be announced this week that will increase the use of asset forfeiture, especially for drug suspects. The practice has been criticized because it allows law enforcement to take possessions — such as cars and money — without indictments or evidence a crime has been committed.

“With care and professionalism, we plan to develop policies to increase forfeitures. No criminal should be allowed to keep the proceeds of their crime,” Sessions told local prosecutors in Minnesota.

A change in the policy would likely represent another reversal by Sessions of Obama-era Justice Department procedures. His Democratic predecessor Eric Holder had tightened control of the department’s asset forfeiture operations amid concerns that property could be seized without judicial oversight.

Holder limited the ability of local law enforcement agencies to turn over seized assets to the federal government and then share in the proceeds. Civil liberties groups praised the move as a step toward reform because that practice made it easier for local authorities to circumvent state laws that were sometimes stricter than the federal ones governing seizures.

Sessions on Monday said such practice — called adoptive forfeiture — is “appropriate, as is sharing with our partners.”

The line drew a round of applause from the hundreds of county attorneys and law enforcement officials inside a Minneapolis convention center.

Local law enforcement agencies use such proceeds to pay for expenses, and some had complained that Holder’s policy left them without a source of critical funding. But that policy was also designed to save federal resources for larger, complex investigations where the ability to seize assets is critical, such as cases involving national money laundering or Russian organized crime, said Stefan Cassella, a former federal prosecutor and expert on asset forfeiture and money laundering law.

“It’s a great way to build teamwork by adopting the cases and sharing the money,” Cassella said. “But at the same time, not everything can be a priority.”


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on a serious note since these fascist scum have a way of making words meaningless.

"No criminal should be allowed to keep the proceeds of their crime."

shouldn't you be convicted of a crime before you're considered a criminal? so now they can call anyone a criminal because they've created multiple levels to this: criminals (people we feel are bad) and convicted criminals (people we convinced a jury they're bad). i'm guessing the ministry of propaganda will also add future criminals to the list.

and another gem from this germ:

"[W]e hope to issue this week a new directive on asset forfeiture—especially for drug traffickers,"

especially for drug traffickers? this whole bullshyt was only suppose to be about drug traffickers and now you're basically admitting that it's just about taking shyt from people the local dipshyt pigs don't like.

fukk this place for real.
 
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Hillary's AG would have done the same thing

and let us not forget about superpredators
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