Imagine you're charged with a crime. Fortunately, you have about one-million dollars in savings. So you'll be able to hire a good lawyer. So at least you can put on a defense, right?
Wrong.
Under federal law, prosecutors can freeze all of your assets before you've ever been convicted of a crime.
If you are presumed innocent, how can the government seize your money?
This article, which discusses a pending Eleventh Circuit case, provides a nice overview.
The government seizes money of the innocent all the time. Under guise of collecting on student loans, the government uses administrative wage garnishment the wages of citizens it knows were used as innocent agents by trade schools to embezzle money from the government. I have posed "The Question" at my blog http://bastardsall.blogspot.com/ to get a conversation going as to how the government can be stopped from infringing upon the rights of innocent citizens.
Any comment, good or bad, will be appreciated.
Regards,
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin | May 26, 2008 at 07:08 PM