{"id":13848,"date":"2014-10-22T12:29:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T17:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13848"},"modified":"2014-10-28T08:04:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T13:04:07","slug":"wapo-federal-judge-prosecutors-attempt-to-secretly-seize-13-million-was-constitutionally-abhorrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13848","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Federal judge: Prosecutors\u2019 attempt to secretly seize $13 million was \u2018constitutionally abhorrent\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/10\/21\/federal-judge-prosecutors-attempt-to-secretly-seize-13-million-was-constitutionally-abhorrent\/\">Federal judge: Prosecutors\u2019 attempt to secretly seize $13 million was \u2018constitutionally abhorrent\u2019<\/a> by Radley Balko: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For your \u201cI can\u2019t believe this stuff happens in America\u201d files:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Calling their conduct \u201cconstitutionally abhorrent,\u201d a federal judge recently chided government prosecutors for working in secret to keep millions of dollars in cash and assets seized from a Las Vegas gambler and his family in a decade-long bookmaking investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In his 31-page opinion, U.S. Magistrate Judge Cam Ferenbach cast light on the little-known court process that allowed the government to file civil forfeiture actions against Glen Cobb, his 82-year-old parents and his stepdaughter under \u201csuper seal\u201d with no notice to anyone \u2014 not even the family it targeted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Federal judge: Prosecutors\u2019 attempt to secretly seize $13 million was \u2018constitutionally abhorrent\u2019 by Radley Balko: For your \u201cI can\u2019t believe this stuff happens in America\u201d files: Calling their conduct \u201cconstitutionally abhorrent,\u201d a federal judge recently chided government prosecutors for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13916,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13848\/revisions\/13916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}