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They rummaged through personal belongings of a jazz saxophone player, an interior designer, a retired doctor, a flooring contractor, two Century City lawyers and hundreds of others.
Agents took photos and videos of pay stubs, password lists, credit cards, a prenuptial agreement, immigration and vaccination records, bank statements, heirlooms and a will, court records show. In one box, agents found cremated human remains...
Let's cut to the chase
In the raid's aftermath, the criminal case against U.S. Private Vaults sputtered to an end with nobody sent to prison.
The company went out of business. It was sentenced to pay a $1.1-million fine for laundering drug money, but prosecutors conceded it lacked the means to pay it.
Under a plea deal [*sigh*], the U.S. attorney's office agreed not to prosecute the company’s owners, despite a Justice Department policy under Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland [who?] to hold individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing -- and despite Zellhart telling Kim it was "owned and managed by criminals."
No, really, the chase has an ending, minus the part where perjury charges are filed...
Prosecutors falsely accused the man of fraud, racketeering, conspiracy, drug trafficking and money laundering. FBI agent Madison MacDonald — who co-authored the raid plan — filed a sworn statement saying the allegations were true.... On March 9, nearly a year after the FBI seized the man's [
documents] cash and gold, Scarsi ordered the government to give it back.
Gee, I hope we don't see a repeat.. I mean, the FBI? Lying? Can't believe it, not the FBI.
The following is a preemptive shhh!:
Please note that the ball starting rolling in 2015. I forget who was president then, but let's just agree that it doesn't make a bit of difference
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @06:23AM (27 children)
- Report: FBI SWAT Raids Home of Catholic Pro-Life Activist as ‘Screaming’ Children Watch [breitbart.com]
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @06:30AM (15 children)
Breitbart?? Please!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @08:07AM (13 children)
Attack the messenger!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @09:13AM (2 children)
Is this particular messenger reliable?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:26PM (1 child)
Compared to what? Do you have a rebuttal from an approved source? I mean, a source meeting with your approval.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @10:03AM
No, but that is not important right now. Brietbarf is a butthole, all by itself. Steve Bannon used to run it. Andrew Brietbart died while running, not sure if it was from the FBI, or Q.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @08:34PM (7 children)
That one, yeah.. It's a right wing gossip rag. Give us something legit
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:31PM (6 children)
Okay, Joe's often baffled, and FLOTUS dresses like a fishwife.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2022, @06:49PM (5 children)
That was not Offtopic! It was in direct response to "Give us something legit," and so I did.
Please show proof that Joe isn't increasingly baffled and... the other thing, too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2022, @08:25PM (4 children)
Yeah it is..
It is nothing of the sort, and you didn't. You're just trying to poison the forum with tabloid crap.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2022, @03:33AM (3 children)
Jebus, you marxists sure are strict. Complying would be so much easier, if only we had a list of news sources approved by your politburo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01 2022, @02:09AM (2 children)
What are you suggesting? Seams and complicated, curved hypersurfaces, also known as intersection space?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 02 2022, @06:07PM (1 child)
Is there an App for that? And a "puzzled goober" you-moji. Just started with the iPhone, which should be a step in the right direction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 16 2022, @05:03AM
It can be shown that the metrical structure of the world is already fully determined by its inertial and causal structure, that therefore mensuration need not depend on clocks and rigid bodies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:21PM (1 child)
The problem is that you have to go to someone like breitbart [breitbart.com] if you want to learn about anything anti-establishment-dysentery-ism.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday September 26 2022, @07:37PM
Verbal dysentery, at least!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2022, @06:47PM
Thank you, you're welcome. Please show us your approved sources.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @06:25PM (4 children)
Now imagine if he'd been black.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @07:59PM (2 children)
While color-conjecturing, recall what the FBI will do if he's orange.
(Score: 5, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @03:28AM (1 child)
Orange privilege: instead of banging on the door and shouting, two years of investigation that merely results in a civil case.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2022, @02:36AM
Innocence of the Lamb. The wolves have led him to slaughter so many times, some might think by now that one of those attacks would leave a mark. At least tussle his luxurious locks.
Little Lamb, God bless thee.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @09:02PM
Yeah, that story is bogus. Normal procedure is to just knock the door down and toss in some stun grenades, and maybe shoot the dog
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @07:41PM (4 children)
Remarkable people. Truth is trolling; trust Big Brother; independent thought is bad.
"I Sure in Hell Don’t Think We Should Be Funding the FBI"
- Joe Biden
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday September 26 2022, @07:40PM (3 children)
Haha, truly pathetically obvious projection like usual.
The actual quote:
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2022, @06:28AM
You're reading a wishful thinking quote of what was scripted for poor Joe to say, not what actually stumbled from his mouth. Do a non-evil search for "I Sure in Hell Don’t Think We Should Be Funding the FBI" Biden and there you go... bunches of confirmations.
Now, as to whether he meant one way or the other, I'm sure he has no idea.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2022, @04:55PM (1 child)
So, you're saying this video is fake?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7fA10e2Tbs [youtube.com]
Could be.. lots of fake shit out there
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 30 2022, @05:21PM
C'mon, man! What-uh-ya gonna believe, some nonsense you found on the Internet, or a genuine, bona fide, Score: 5, Informative?
Next, you'll be claiming that K. Harris said, "The United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea." ... “It is an alliance that is strong and enduring."
“Jackie are you here? Where’s Jackie?”
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @09:25AM
“They had big, huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me"
ROFL
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @09:36AM (9 children)
Fusty is moving on up, posting things that only he finds interesting. This after the Fusty the Obscure entries we have had to endure for far too long. But now he is approaching Runaway levels of journaling. Cops beating innocent racist truckers, Trucks preventing an issurection, Bureau of Land Management leaders embezzling millions, Defund the FBI, and Let's Go, Groomers. Both sides, y'all!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @08:37PM (8 children)
:-) What "both sides"?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:49PM (7 children)
There are at least three sides right now fusty.
There are Dems that believe in freedom with good governance, there are Reps that toe the party line so even if they believe in fiscal responsibility and the rule of law they will bend to whatever the party dictates which is currently naked religious ethno-fascism. Then there is the third and most powerful group, the corrupted that will do the bidding of the highest bidders while making performative hot air; like Ted Cruz taking credit and applauding the very legislation he voted against.
Until fusty can come to terms with a reality deeper than his teenage brain we can expect these propaganda journals to continue. Stating his journals are propaganda is a little presumptive of me, but seems nicer than calling it teenage angst.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @11:03PM (5 children)
Eh, you can either keep the faith, as you seem likely to do, or you can accept that you have one party with two faces and forked tongue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @03:16AM (4 children)
Yes good point. GP left out the international working class. The workers will take care of the uniparty.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @10:28PM (3 children)
The workers control the means of production.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2022, @11:47PM (2 children)
Are you sure about that? Certainly doesn't seem that way currently in Russia...where guns force workers to do things they wouldn't do otherwise (like be conscripted for a war that only the bosses want).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2022, @02:06AM (1 child)
All in good time. A country that's long been based on fish eggs, nesting dolls, wodka, depressing art, and gulags, can't be turned around on a kopek.
Trust me, the Russians are good at five-year plans.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2022, @07:33AM
Marx has no hope for backward, feudalistic, countries like Russia and the United States every becoming Socialist! It takes a certain level of intelligent industrial organization for the working class to realize that they are the ones who possess the knowledge that makes production work. Idiots like khallow and the Dilbert guy, well, too stupid to be working class. But this is also why America right now is in the throes of really stupid, anti-labor, Republican, anti-woman, and anti-antifa stupid. But all this, too, shall pass. Like a giant turd in the wind, shall the Donald go down the sanitary sewer of history. Thus, it is written.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2022, @04:37PM
Most illustrative political documentary, ever: Ninotchka (1939) [imdb.com] And it has:
Buljanoff: How are things in Moscow?
Ninotchka: Very Good. The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.
...
Ninotchka: I am so happy. Oh, I'm so happy! No one can be so happy without being punished. I will be punished and I should be punished.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday September 25 2022, @05:12PM (10 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @09:37PM (8 children)
The key is that just knowing you're right does not make a solid case, whether it's this, or Trump, or anything else. It's our own fault for not demanding better. Those that do are branded as lunatics and trolls by party fanbois
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:39PM (3 children)
Might makes right. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. You can get more with a kind word and a gun, than with just a kind word.
Who is the power behind the throne?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:42PM (1 child)
The City of London
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @12:13AM
The Stonecutters! [youtu.be]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @02:18AM
Follow the money.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday September 26 2022, @09:36AM (3 children)
Because the only way to fix things is to "demand better"? We have this alternative that works ok. It's not great, but it does work: lawsuits.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @06:01PM
Yes, lawsuits are just a cheap temporary patch. Reelecting crooks is why the problem exists. They write sloppy law and toss everything to the courts, welfare for lawyers
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @10:31PM (1 child)
That's like wishing for something, only with rows of union thugs standing behind you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @10:50PM
When did "wishing for something" with your vote become a bad thing? Faithless reelection (for handouts/tax cuts/pork) is what got us here
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @11:57PM
So, let's pose the question:
If the FBI screwed up Mar-a-Largo as badly, will they have to give all the papers back too?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @07:48PM (37 children)
A) Because they found an interesting topic
B) To have a safe space to vent political frustrations
C) Casting doubt on an agency investigating criminasl with qult followers
D) Both B and C
Fusty chooses D every time!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @08:40PM (1 child)
More whine, my dear?
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Sunday September 25 2022, @09:28PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:13PM (34 children)
You're saying the FBI is a political organization!?!? The effrontery of it all!
Those jackboots can march both ways, you know... it's just that the other side hasn't done anything at all to displease the Justice Department.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:40PM (23 children)
Both ways? Shows just how much you idjits bury your heads in the sand. Anyone else member the investigstion into Hillary's emails just before the election that very much tilted the election. I see your fascist propaganda is textbook, play the victim whining about jackboots as your brown shirts slam their boots on the necks of innocents.
Soylent News, home to Nazis and their sympathizers willing to tarnish their souls for worldly power.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:53PM (16 children)
Forgot the free pass Hillary got from the FBI, DOJ, mainstream media? She lost because most people found her... I'm trying to think of another word besides deplorable.
Nazi-blah-blah-blah-lame-outdated... But Ukraine has swastikas on their tanks, and you guys still embrace them with buckets-o-inflationary cash.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @11:50PM (15 children)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election#Electoral_results [wikipedia.org]
If we're counting people I think most people found her the best candidate.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @02:25AM (14 children)
Thank [deity] for the Electoral College.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @05:49PM
* except when it doesn't go how Republicans want so they throw an insurrection then act like spoiled brats when facing any consequences for their actions.
(Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Monday September 26 2022, @06:25PM (12 children)
Yes, all those totally normal tourists on Jan 6 were just there to thank those electoral college voters they were counting!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @10:34PM (11 children)
There were fewer armed thugs there, than at a Planned Parenthood rally. (One, count 'em one... a guy named Luke, who was given a free pass by the FBI).
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2022, @08:56PM (1 child)
So you nazis know full well what you're doing is wrong and you craft your violence for maximum plausible deniability. Makes you 1000X worse than merely being useful idiots. This particular narrative is undermined by the fact you traitors had vehicles filled with weapons ready to roll out once the coup was far enough along. Before that point showing any significant weapons would have triggered a proper response to your traitorous insurrection.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2022, @07:51PM
Well moderated! Informative! It's truly informative to find out that a few people still somehow believe that shit. Unless they're blindly repeating that shit, for a 50¢ post.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2022, @02:16AM (8 children)
Yup: Luke Robinson, #GingerGun
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2022, @03:32AM (6 children)
^ 10 FACTS on the Dozens of Federal Operatives Who Infiltrated the Trump Crowds on January 6th [thegatewaypundit.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2022, @05:00AM (5 children)
sheesh! Another stupid tabloid! Try to find some real news please
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2022, @05:20AM (4 children)
Live Updates: Hurricane Ian to Make Landfall in Florida [breitbart.com]
By your reckoning, it must be clear and sunny in Florida. Party on, Dude!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2022, @06:18AM (3 children)
Obviously verified by real newspapers and the NOAA, which I would check before believing anything from your gossip rags. Save your stupid strawmen
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2022, @06:12PM (2 children)
Okay, use your personally-approved and verified by real newspapers sources to dispel huge concerns about 10 FACTS on the Dozens of Federal Operatives Who Infiltrated the Trump Crowds on January 6th [thegatewaypundit.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2022, @08:19PM (1 child)
It's all clickbait bullshit. Go masturbate somewhere else, by yourself, or with your weird friends
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 29 2022, @10:40PM
Just because the founder and sole editor of TheGatewayPundit is gay, that is no reason for such a bigoted response! I am sure they go way beyond masturbation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 05 2022, @10:22PM
Oh my, another face eaten by a leopard. You rightwing puds were ecstatic at the police violence against BLM protesters exercising their rights.
In typical rightwing pud fashion you start foaming at the mouth when the police target YOU. Feds infiltrating your organization? Waaah waaah waaaaaaaah! Feds assaulting liberals? Cheers! Claps! Applause!
Republicans are domestic terrorists intent on a fascist government. Such babies, much blech.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:54PM (5 children)
Yeah, let's keep pretending that regular DNC political machinations had nothing to do with it.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @10:59PM
And that Bill Clinton had a secret meeting with AG Loretta Lynch at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport... just to talk about grandchildren.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @03:23PM
No need to deflect from the fact the other AC lied about the FBI targeting conservatives unfairly. More victim bullshit from conservatives.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday September 26 2022, @06:27PM (2 children)
You mean when they counted the primary votes and the person who got the most won?
Oh yeah, I forgot you guys hate that shit!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @07:04PM (1 child)
Right, because democrats don't fall for DNC lies and other propaganda, right? If you all can blame Russia for Trump's win in '16, then we can blame the DNC (or maybe even Russia!) for Clinton's primary victory. Two way street, babe. Fraud and treachery is everywhere. Got any more excuses?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2022, @04:06AM
Generally they don't, or at least their analyses are grounded in reality and vague reformism with points of disagreement with political authority. I think what's really interesting though is that the Republican followers are the ones who take the DNC propaganda seriously. Of course they have to, for the RNC propaganda to make any sense.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @01:02AM (9 children)
I thought Emperor Donnie drained the swamp and replaced the FBI heads of staff with his own goons.
Are you not saying, surely, that America ain't great again?
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @02:33AM (8 children)
Worst Stock Market year ever. Highest inflation, ever. Energy shortages, electric rationing, reckless spending, food shortages, crime, violence, illegal immigration, massive debts, making the poor pay for the rich to go to run up debts, Fentanyl, taxes, wokism, bottoming-out education, coming massive layoffs... it ain't great any more, that's for sure.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @10:38PM (4 children)
Tagging it "Score: -1, Troll" doesn't make it all not so. Sadly, it's true — and so much more than that — but you're in total denial about the pathetic state of the country and our future, since... you know, the thing.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2022, @03:44AM (1 child)
Do not worry. Instead rejoice! It's almost time for the meek to inherit the Earth. Just a little longer now.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2022, @05:50AM
It'll take us forever to clean up the place, after that Nuclear Winter.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2022, @10:40AM (1 child)
Runaway is still blocking (sensoring) true ACs from his Murder-Death-Kill journals. He also wants to defungible the police, and stand his grund instead. Some thing about "Blut und Boden und Booty". Oh, and laundering drug money, without let or hindrance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2022, @12:08AM
Has he finally seen the light and joined the Hookers and Blow Party?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday September 27 2022, @01:39PM (1 child)
In event that your stupid state / country is rationing electricity. It's, because they're incompetent. Now, it could just be solely, because of stupid political stuff. Which I would also call incompetence.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2022, @05:49PM
It'll be great when they ban non-electric vehicles from CA. Ought to be a Port Of Entry, just east of Blythe, where the long-haul truckers have to drop-off everything before they turn around. Your family can join the wagon train once a month to pick up your Bill Gates-approved, govt-supplied "Magic Seeds" and bug-burgers at the border. Speaking of trains... looks like there will have to be a huge roundhouse, to turn them around at Yuma. It's a shame the prevailing winds blow from West to East.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2022, @07:25PM
Imagine another year, or even longer, like this... only more-so. It's already beginning to make 1929 look better. Almost good. At least back then, they didn't have all of today's onerous and growing burdens. Imagine real income drying-up and blowing away, yet taxation rising.
They used to tell me I was building a dream
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow or guns to bear
I was always their right on the job
They used to tell me I was building a dream
With peace and glory ahead
Why should I be standing in line
Just waiting for bread?
Once I built a railroad, I made it run
Made it race against time
Once I built a railroad, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once I built a tower up to the sun
Brick and rivet and lime
Once I built a tower, now it's done
Brother, can you spare a dime?
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday May 11, @04:37PM (1 child)
What the FBI wanted was the contents of all of those boxes. Criminal investigation of the storage company was just a pretext to get at it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11, @08:26PM
Regardless of the objective, the FBI committed a crime, and those people won't be prosecuted either. Just another day...