The following editorial was published in Massachusetts’ Gloucester Times on January 23rd: A full year after the release of the preliminary report from the office of Department of Commerce Inspector General Todd Zinser, there are tons of serious questions still…
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Monthly Archives: January 2011
The hypocrisy here is so thick I could cut it with a knife…
The UK’s Daily Mail writes today about the execution of a 9 year old Hispanic girl and her father by members of an anti-immigrant militia group in Arizona. The story itself is sad, and a troubling indictment of American attitudes…
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Tagged with: Arizona, Comprehensive Asset Forfeiture Act, Minutemen American Defence Group, SWAT, vigilantes, War on Drugs
Posted in Drug War, states
Posted in Drug War, states
Michigan police use asset forfeiture to take cash from patients
Over at The Agitator, Radley Balko takes Michigan police to task for using asset forfeiture laws to seize cash from patients and employees of medical marijuana dispensaries operating under Michigan state law, under the justification that the dispensaries knew they…
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Tagged with: anti-competitive behavior, dispenary, marijuana, Michigan, Oakland County, Radley Balko
Posted in Drug War, states
Posted in Drug War, states
California prosecutor uses forfeiture funds for home security, legal defense
From the Press-Enterprise (emphasis mine): A home security system for former Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco, who was threatened in a newspaper ad during his time as the county’s prosecutor, cost $18,764. The money came from asset forfeiture funds.…
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Corrupt, from start to finish
It is a well-documented fact that the asset forfeiture process in American federal and state law is a process wracked by corruption, from the police officers who pocket “their cut” of cash seizures to the police chiefs, sheriffs, and prosecutors…
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Tagged with: Asset Forfeiture Fund, Brian Aryai, Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984, Leonard Briskman, US Marshals Service
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Right on Crime is right on asset forfeiture
We’re happy to announce that we’ll be working with the newly formed Right on Crime policy project on asset forfeiture reform! Right on Crime is a project of the Texas Public Policy project, and represents one of the few serious…
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Vote for the worst prosecutor of 2010!
Over at The Agitator, Radley Balko has a poll for the worst prosecutor of 2010. As you might guess, some of their official misconduct comes in the form of pre-trial asset forfeiture designed to bankrupt defendants before they get to…
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Forfeiture victim: Robert Petricci
Robert Petricci, a businessman from Hawaii, has a fascinating and tragic story of his experience with forfeiture in Hawaii. Robert also suffers from severe arthritis, and consumes medical marijuana for pain. A few years ago, he was the victim of…
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