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Large sums of cash are subject to confiscation

August 20, 2006 by in Politics,Privacy,Random,Stupid with 10 Comments

You can forget ballin’ like rappers in music videos with large sums of cash hanging out of your pockets, Federal Courts ruled that large sums of cash are now subject to confiscation.

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that if a motorist is carrying large sums of money, it is automatically subject to confiscation. In the case entitled, “United States of America v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit took that amount of cash away from Emiliano Gomez Gonzolez, a man with a “lack of significant criminal history” neither accused nor convicted of any crime.

Does anyone care to take a jab at this latest ruling?


  • http://ikonq.com ikonQ

    While it’s a little overzealous, It’s not without cause.

    Why would someone be carrying $124,700+ US?
    For Criminal Purposes is a possibility, but it should be something where you must prove what the currecny will be used for.

    Eg, winning the lottery; and enjoying the novelty of buying a new car or home in cold hard cash.

  • Ben

    Sounds like he was guilty of the ultimate sin in the US. Driving whilst being not white.

  • http://www.myspace.com/AlexTheMartian Alex

    “Possession of a large sum of cash is ‘strong evidence’ of a connection to drug activity.”

    Stupid cops, just becuase someone has a lot of money that means it is from drugs?

    Now im from the hispanic side of Los Angeles so I can understand from where I’m at why some guy named Emiliano Gomez Gonzolez with $124,700 in a cooler would be pulled over, but not in Nebraska.

    A large sum of cash, a rental car, a state trooper.. is it just me or this seems close to Psycho?

  • http://www.alifelessordinary.com/ Thomas J. Brown

    What. The. Fuck.

  • chad

    usually when I hit up the ATM I take out $124,699… luckily I’ll still be okay to travel freely to 7-11 and spend every dime of it on Slim Jims and Big Gulps without any friction from the fuzz

  • pat

    Define “large sum of money”, please? To me, a large sum of money is $200.

  • ClaMs

    Hello Mr.Chad. Have this $1 bill …… HA HA you’re screwed now!
    MuuWwwwAHAHAhahahhahaHahAHHAHhahaHAHahHAhaAaa!!!!!!

    All your Dollars are belong to me…

    It’s a funny country the U.S.

  • Emory

    @Ben, my thoughts exactly. That’s ridiculous…
    “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” -Ben Franklin

  • http://blog.deadlycomputer.com steve

    that is total bull.
    im not a person for friviolus lawsuits, but this is one where i would so set them up for double whatever i had.

    also, i wouldnt have let the cops search my car to begin with, i have done nothing wrong, there’s nothing in my car, its within my right to deny you the ability to search.

  • J York

    All the U.S. is doing is suing to quiet the title on the money, but they are telling the public that they will take your money from you any time they want and if you don’t know what to do about it, you are hornswaggled. When no one makes a claim on it, they take it by way of abandonment. They did that over the land with the indians in the 1700′s and if you research some books from the 1800′s, lawyers regularly sued items like bags of coffee and such, and when no one made a higher claim on the property, the lawyer took control of it.

    All these hispanic men should have to do is create an affidavit stating they own that money, that it was not the profits of drug trading and close it with a requirement of a point for point rebuttal sworn by anyone with a higher claim or proof of what they have sworn to is false. It is so simple and it is also so sad that these men are going to lose that money because their lawyer is dumber than a post and doesn’t understand how these things work.

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