{"id":16627,"date":"2015-04-04T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16627"},"modified":"2015-04-03T16:47:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T21:47:27","slug":"wapo-holder-announces-new-limits-on-civil-asset-forfeitures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16627","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Holder announces new limits on civil asset forfeitures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/wp\/2015\/03\/31\/holder-announces-new-limits-on-civil-asset-forfeitures\/\">Holder announces new limits on civil asset forfeitures<\/a> by Robert O&#8217;Harrow Jr.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Attorney General Eric H. Holder announced new curbs Tuesday on the government\u2019s use of civil asset forfeiture laws, saying that federal authorities will only seize bank accounts when serious illegal transactions have been documented.<\/p>\n<p>The new policy amplifies an announcement in October by the Internal Revenue Service, which said its agents would use seizure authorities primarily in cases when accounts owners are clearly using the banking system for crimes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Holder announces new limits on civil asset forfeitures by Robert O&#8217;Harrow Jr.: Attorney General Eric H. Holder announced new curbs Tuesday on the government\u2019s use of civil asset forfeiture laws, saying that federal authorities will only seize bank accounts &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16627\">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-16627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627","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=16627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16628,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16627\/revisions\/16628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}