A federal judge ruled against a lawsuit that accused FBI and DOJ of misleading a magistrate for a warrant to search a facility and seize roughly $85 million from private citizens.
has been returned to"hundreds" of USPV customers, Mrozek said, but many millions remain unclaimed.
For them to get their property back through the FBI, he said, they would have to hand over that same sensitive information to the government. His strategy, which involved filing a motion to return property in the criminal case and not a separate civil lawsuit, led to his clients’ recovery of their belongings last year, he said, describing the seizure as an overreach in the first place, and he said the government overestimated the extent of the criminal activity going on at USPV.because they don’t want to be investigated – who’s going to cry over that?" he said.
USPV used high-tech security measures, including biometric scans to access its vaults, but did not require personal identifying information, such as Social Security numbers, which some customers feared could be stolen, according to court documents. It also had 24-hour security from ADT and heat and motion sensors throughout its facility.
Plaintiffs Jennifer Snitko, her husband, Paul Snitko, and Joseph Ruiz, left to right, are shown outside U.S. Private Vaults on May 27, 2021, in Beverly Hills, California. In his judgment last month, Klausner found that while the initial warrant did not give the government authority to perform a criminal search and seizure of the customer’s deposit boxes, it did allow for law enforcement to inspect and document their contents"in an effort to identify their owners in order to notify them so they can claim their property.
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