Forbes Magazine Slams The FBI As A Bunch Of 'Thieves'

That's Pretty Embarrassing

February 20. 2024

FBI Director Christopher Wray

For years I have been stating on this site and social networking that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are a bunch of dirty, slavetrading thieves, due to what I witnessed firsthand in my interactions with the corrupt, trashbag federal agency from hell:

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• Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Obtained Executive Orders From George Bush And Barack Obama To Criminally Steal Copyrights Worth Billions For Madonna And Hollywood While Engaging In Heinous Human Rights Abuses That Left Innocent People Dead

• Former FBI Directors Robert Mueller And James Comey Criminally Defrauded Florida Submarine Company Out Of Billions Of Dollars In Copyrights And Patents To Benefit Former Employer Lockheed Martin Then Stonewalled Congress Regarding It

Then you started to see more examples in the public domain of what I have been stating regarding the FBI being a bunch of thieving criminals, as you saw mainstream press articles regarding them stealing cash, antique jewelry, gold coins, and even Civil War era gold from members of the public:

• Judge Issues Restraining Order Blocking The FBI From Stealing The Cash, Jewelry And Gold They Illegally Seized At A Beverly Hills Safety Deposit Box Business

• FBI Agents Steal Rare Gold Coins In Brazen Defiance Of Judge's Search Warrant

• FBI Agent Arrested For Stealing $800,000 From A Woman And Using It To Buy A House, Mercedes And Take Lavish Trips

• The FBI Steals $40,200 From Black Couple In Ongoing Fraud Scheme Reminiscent Of Hitler's Nazi Police

• The FBI Sued For Stealing Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars In Civil War Era Gold

This month world renown financial magazine Forbes slammed the FBI as "thieves" and demanded the U.S. Congress make substantial reforms. Forbes magazine wrote, "The list sprawls across 15 pages, chronicling the spoils of a daring heist. Stuffed into security deposit boxes was millions in cold, hard cash, gleaming Cartier jewelry, and even $1.3 million in poker chips. Altogether, the list detailed more than $100 million in cash, gold, and other precious property, the proceeds of the biggest armed robbery in American history. And the FBI was the 'thief,' breaking the highest law in the land in an effort to keep the proceeds for itself."

As covered on the site a few weeks ago, after a judge corruptly ruled in the FBI's favor that they could steal from the public, the Appeals Court overturned it (The FBI Loses Appeals Case Regarding Trying To Steal Americans Gold, Jewelry And Cash From Safety Deposit Boxes).

Forbes magazine reported, "A federal court has now exposed the FBI’s audacious plan to violate the constitutional rights of hundreds of Americans. What it uncovered shows why Congress must enact strong legislation to prevent this kind of egregious 'policing for profit' from ever happening again."

Forbes magazine further wrote, "The forfeiture notices did not accuse owners of any specific crime. Instead, documents referred indirectly to hundreds of different federal laws that might give reason for the government to take property. Maybe the box renters were guilty of copyright infringement or business dealings with North Korea?"

The FBI had set a nasty legal precedent via the corrupt lower court ruling by the judge, which essentially made it case law that they could steal the property of anyone in America with impunity. That meant an FBI employee could be driving by your house one day and see a valuable, rare classic car in the driveway that your parent left you, after said parent went to great pains to take care of it for decades, keeping it in pristine condition. Then, the FBI agent decided to steal it from you by alleging some fake crime occurred that didn't, presenting no proof of your guilt (that's what happened in the aforementioned safety deposit box case where the FBI even stole gold coins from a doctor of many years who proved how she bought the items).

That's what the lower court judge's ruling amounted to regarding case law. It gave the FBI the legal right to steal from anyone in America by simply making up some cockamamie story with no proof, then quickly stealing seizing the assets and keeping it for themselves. While it has been overturned by the Appeals Court, the Supreme Court could still pick up the case.

The FBI has been testing the limits regarding their dirty, thieving behavior more and more. Last year they forced a safe manufacturer to open a large safe an American man was lawfully keeping in his house. Based on reports, this had not been done before. The FBI claimed they were looking for a gun, but they took other items in the safe.

Say you are keeping cash and expensive jewelry in a safe in your home. Some greedy FBI employees get wind of it. They raid your house. They force the safe manufacturer to open the safe. They take its contents, knowing full well you will struggle to prove in court just how much money and what type of jewelry you had in the safe. Seriously, tell me, how will you prove exactly what you had in the safe. It will be your word against the FBI's, an agency that has been known to corruptly and illegally tell judges how to rule in cases, especially when a lot of money and or other valuable assets are involved.

After all, in the Beverley Hills safety deposit case mentioned above, the FBI lied about the number of gold coins they stole seized from a doctor. The FBI struggled to give all the gold coins back when the doctor sued them over the wrongful seizure, because clearly someone(s) within the FBI stole some of the coins and possibly pawned them. If the gold coins were purchased by someone else visiting the pawn shop and the person can't be found to get them back, there is no way to retrieve them.

The judge ordered the FBI to return everything they illegally seized from the safety deposit boxes, in violation of the original court order, and they could not, as some of the valuable items they unlawfully seized went missing in the FBI's possession. Some of the items were antique jewelry passed down for generations in a family. Imagine your grandmother left you expensive antique jewelry that are heirlooms in your family, and some FBI official or FBI agent's whore girlfriend they're cheating on their wife with, is proudly wearing them all over town while dressed like a hooker, after the illegal raid that defied a judge's orders.

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Unconstitutional FBI Raid Should Move Congress To Reform Federal Law

Feb 2, 2024,08:54am EST - Joseph Ruiz nearly lost his savings to the FBI even though he was never charged with a crime. The list sprawls across 15 pages, chronicling the spoils of a daring heist. Stuffed into security deposit boxes was millions in cold, hard cash, gleaming Cartier jewelry, and even $1.3 million in poker chips. Altogether, the list detailed more than $100 million in cash, gold, and other precious property, the proceeds of the biggest armed robbery in American history.

And the FBI was the “thief,” breaking the highest law in the land in an effort to keep the proceeds for itself. But a federal court has now exposed the FBI’s audacious plan to violate the constitutional rights of hundreds of Americans. What it uncovered shows why Congress must enact strong legislation to prevent this kind of egregious “policing for profit” from ever happening again.

All this started back in March 2021, when the FBI executed a warrant on US Private Vaults, a Beverly Hills company offering secure deposit box rentals. While that warrant said the FBI could seize the company’s assets for forfeiture, it specifically prohibited any criminal search or seizure of customers’ boxes. It instructed agents that they could open the boxes merely to identify their owners and return their possessions.

However, the FBI hid from the judge who granted the warrant its true agenda – a plan to ransack every box, search them all, parade any cash in front of drug-sniffing canines, and ultimately try to permanently keep, through civil forfeiture, the contents of any box worth more than $5,000. Why $5,000? Because that’s the threshold where the government could profitably process the forfeiture.

From the FBI's skewed perspective, all box renters were guilty until proven innocent. At first, anonymous litigants fought back, demanding the return of their seized property. Then, Paul and Jennifer Snitko and Joseph Ruiz took their grievances public, filing a lawsuit alongside the Institute for Justice. The ensuing class action lawsuit led to a recent triumph against the FBI's overreach.

Americans believe firmly that those charged with crimes are innocent until proven guilty, but that is not the way that civil forfeiture works. Caught in this upside-down world, property owners were made to prove their innocence to the FBI to get their possessions back...

It is time for Congress to put federal law enforcement back on the right track. The FBI ran roughshod over the constitutional rights of hundreds of security deposit box renters in pursuit of riches. If the incentives don’t change, similar abuses are likely to happen again and again.

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