Reply #25: he needs a better lawyer

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The IRS says you have to be able to account for receiving or earning or being gifted with every dollar you possess, but also has an audit limit.

HOW LONG WILL IT BE before they start doing this to your bank account?

In theory, if you only declare 40K in income, are middle aged, haven't won the lotto or a vast inheritance and you suddenly show up with a bunch of money in one of your bank accounts, it could be said that you got it through illegal means, or are preparing to use it illegally, not having declared or paid income tax on it.

In practice what that boneheaded dumbfuck of a judge just did was set precedent that the mere hearsay of intent of a crime is enough reason to confiscate cash from someone.

So what's to stop a cop from making you go to an ATM and show him your account balance? What if that guy had had all that money, but it was in an escrow account guaranteeing a cashier's check? Now they could have seized those funds.

What if they were telling the truth? I suppose hearsay has more weight than his friends and neighbors stepping forth to say they had contributed cash to buy a rig?

What if he really was going to deal drugs? SHOULD the government have the right to confiscate assets on suspicion alone?

That judge is the reason we need to recess appoint every single liberal judge in the first congressional recess after we take office - every last one of them. We cannot let our very own judiciary rot like this.