{"id":15590,"date":"2015-01-24T13:41:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15590"},"modified":"2015-01-24T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T18:41:21","slug":"e-d-pa-in-complex-financial-crimes-particularity-standard-must-be-flexible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15590","title":{"rendered":"E.D.Pa.: In complex financial crimes, particularity standard must be flexible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This financial search warrant may appear to be overbroad, but it alleged a seven year scheme and sought many types of financial records. \u201cThis is the sort of \u2018complex scheme[] spanning many years\u2019 for which our Court of Appeals prescribed flexibility in <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=7504480958566453083&#038;q=+United+States+v.+Christine,+687+F.2d+749&#038;hl=en&#038;as_sdt=1006\">Christine<\/a>. Christine, 687 F.2d at 760. Fattah may not use the complexity of his alleged crimes as a \u2018shield to avoid detection.\u2019 Andresen, 427 U.S. at 480 n.10. The categories of information authorized to be searched or seized did not permit law enforcement to go on an unrestrained search, and they were consistent with the scope of probable cause established by the Government in the search warrant affidavit. We conclude that the warrant was not impermissibly general.\u201d Also, mere disagreement with the inferences drawn by the affiant does not make the affidavit false. United States v. Fattah, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7162 (E.D. Pa. January 22, 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This financial search warrant may appear to be overbroad, but it alleged a seven year scheme and sought many types of financial records. \u201cThis is the sort of \u2018complex scheme[] spanning many years\u2019 for which our Court of Appeals prescribed &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=15590\">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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15590","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=15590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15591,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15590\/revisions\/15591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}