{"id":17293,"date":"2015-05-18T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17293"},"modified":"2015-05-18T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T14:48:00","slug":"wapo-how-the-irs-seized-a-mans-life-savings-without-ever-charging-him-with-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17293","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: How the IRS seized a man\u2019s life savings without ever charging him with a crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/05\/15\/how-the-irs-seized-a-north-carolina-businessmans-life-savings-without-ever-charging-him-with-a-crime\/\">How the IRS seized a man\u2019s life savings without ever charging him with a crime<\/a> by Christopher Ingraham:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States of America, Plaintiff, v. $107,702.66 in United States Currency, Defendant. That&#8217;s the Kafkaesque title of a civil asset forfeiture complaint filed in a U.S. District Court last December. The complaint, and the attendant peculiarity of the federal government filing suit against its own currency, illustrates the legal fiction at the heart of the civil asset forfeiture system. As a DEA agent succinctly described it to the Albuquerque Journal: &#8216;We don\u2019t have to prove that the person is guilty. It\u2019s that the money is presumed to be guilty.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: How the IRS seized a man\u2019s life savings without ever charging him with a crime by Christopher Ingraham: The United States of America, Plaintiff, v. $107,702.66 in United States Currency, Defendant. That&#8217;s the Kafkaesque title of a civil asset &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17293\">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-17293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forfeiture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293","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=17293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17294,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293\/revisions\/17294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}