9 Investigates: OHP's Use Of The Federal Asset Forfeiture Program

[RugersGR8]

Article said it has all already been repaid.

+1 on that. The only thing that I was wondering about was the fact that the DOJ did the investigation and who knows what agendas they had?

 

[Billybob]

+1 on that. The only thing that I was wondering about was the fact that the DOJ did the investigation and who knows what agendas they had?

They weren't the first to investigate it's been known for years...

Law Enforcement Seizures Misspent, Missing

A 2009 audit of the district attorney’s office that represents Beaver, Cimarron, Harper and Texas counties found that a Beaver County assistant district attorney began living rent-free in a house obtained in a 2004 forfeiture. A judge had ordered the house sold at an auction, but the prosecutor lived there through 2009.

Utility bills and repairs made to the house were paid out of the district attorney’s supervision fee account, the audit states...

In a 2014 audit of the DA's office representing Washington and Nowata counties, the State Auditor’s Office found that $5,000 in forfeiture funds had been used to make payments on an assistant district attorney’s student loans.

The report said the district attorney maintained the expense was justified because most of the cases the assistant DA prosecuted were drug cases...

http://oklahomawatch.org/2015/07/15/law-enforcement-seizures-misspent-missing/

 

[Hobbes]

It doesn't need oversight. It needs to stop.

If someone is not arrested, charged, and convicted of a crime, then the state should not be allowed to confiscate their property. Period. Even with a conviction they should only be allowed to seize property that is tied to the crime.

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