Ways and Means Republicans Demand Answers from DOJ on Refusal to Return Wrongfully Seized Money
Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee want to know why the Department of Justice (DOJ) has denied petitions by Americans whose money was seized by the Internal Revenue…
Appropriations Bill Could Defund the Justice Department’s Effort to Take Property Without Due Process
The House of Representatives will consider the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, H.R. 3354. The bill consolidates the eight remaining appropriations measures for FY 2018, including Commerce,…
Capitol Hill Update: February 6, 2017
The House and Senate are in session this week…
Capitol Hill Update: January 30, 2017
The House and Senate are in session this week…
Justice Department Restarts Program Used to Take People’s Property Without Due Process
The Department of Justice, on Monday, restarted the Equitable Sharing Program, which allows federal law enforcement agencies to coordinate with their state and local counterparts to pursue forfeiture of…
Abuse of federal law allowed the government to steal this college student’s life savings
Charles Clarke, after a long trip to visit relatives in Cincinnati between late 2013 and early 2014, was preparing to board a flight back to his home in Orlando when…
California House committee expected to take up legislation to protect innocent property owners from abuse of federal law
The California House Public Safety Committee is expected to hold a hearing on July 14 to debate proposed civil asset forfeiture reforms that offer substantive protections for innocent property owners.
This business owner fought IRS abuse of civil asset forfeiture and forced the government to return $107,000 of wrongfully seized cash
The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to give back nearly $108,000 it wrongfully seized from a North Carolina convenience store owner in July 2014. In dismissing the case against the…
IRS, Justice Department ignore civil asset forfeiture policy changes to target an innocent North Carolina business owner
Lyndon McLellan is the owner of a convenience store in Fairmont, North Carolina, a small town just up I-95 from the state’s border with South Carolina. On the advice of…
Federal courts can’t be trusted to protect innocent property owners
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has failed to uphold one of the most basic principles of the American legal system by allowing the forfeiture of more than $63,000 of…