This could happen to any business! WAKE UP AMERICA! EXCERPTS:
In criminal court, you are innocent until proven guilty.
It’s a different matter altogether in civil forfeiture, where prosecutors can and do seize the assets of anyone on phony charges. Given there is no recourse or fine, the best the innocent victims can do is get their property back, most likely with a huge delay, if at all.
Consider the plight of Terry Dehko and his daughter Sandy Thomas. They run a small grocery store in Fraser, Michigan. Because their insurance only covers a cash limit of $10,000, they frequently make smaller deposits. One day last January, the government seized $35,000 of their assets, not in the store, but in the store account.
Officials said Dehkos had violated federal money-laundering rules, which forbid people to “structure” their bank deposits so as to avoid the $10,000 threshold that triggers banks to report a transaction to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
There was no evidence of guilt. Dehko was not charged with any crimes, and the IRS supported Dehko’s claim. Nonetheless, Dehko is offered 20% of the amount taken from him.
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