(You can beat the system by identifying as Somalian and carrying millions out in suitcases.)
If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, Transportation Security Administration agents can fleece you.
TSA has stripped more than 10,000 travelers of their money since 2014, but the supposed “criminals” are almost never charged after their cash is taken.
A class-action federal court case could finally end this outrage.
“TSA has secret policies that tell its screeners that they must seize travelers’ cash,” Dan Alban, the lawyer leading a nationwide class-action suit against the agency, tells me. Alban is with the Institute for Justice, which is fighting to stop airport checkpoints from being Constitution-free zones.
Federal law prohibits travelers from taking more than $10,000 in cash out of or into the United States without filling out an official form.
But traveling inside America with hefty amounts of cash is perfectly legal. That doesn’t stop TSA from plundering passengers on any and every BS pretext.
Alban appeared in federal court this month to argue his case in Pittsburgh with Rebecca Brown, the lead plaintiff.
In August 2019, 57-year-old Brown was flying out of Pittsburgh International Airport carrying her father’s life savings — $82,373 — which he wanted her to deposit in a joint bank account near her Boston home.
A TSA agent noticed the Tupperware loaded with the cash while scanning Brown’s luggage and summoned a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, who speedily announced he was seizing the money.
There was never any allegation Brown came by the money illegally.
After the media publicized a lawsuit challenging the seizure, the TSA returned the money seven months later.
But legions of similar travelers continue to be victimized across the land.
So tsa only fleeced Americans, and let billions go to somalia. They are nothing but government mafia.
ReplyDeleteThis story pisses me off but that's what REALLY pisses off are the stories of Somalians toting suitcases with millions of American dollars through the airports and they said NOTHING ...WTF?
DeleteTSA allowed the Somalis to fly out of the country with billions in cash , no problems.Who got some skim?
ReplyDeleteYes sir. See my comment above. The Somalians were getting rich and some Democrats HAD to be getting a share of the loot ... they've been involved with the massive money-laundering fraud from the beginning.
DeleteIts more like Democrats set the scam up and the Somalis were getting paid. IQ of a Somalis is quoted at 68, so it's improbably they were the ones who set these frauds up.
DeleteYeah, I completely believe that the Democrats set these fraud operations up and in return they were given kickbacks and they were going to get a shitload of votes.
DeleteFirst, the TSA owes someone around $2500 in lost interest that money could have earned but didn't.
ReplyDeleteSecond, that's been a known issue around these parts for over 30+ years, ever since that stupid ass war on drugs bullshit got kicked off. I heard about it early 90's. Get pulled over anywhere in Texas, Louisiana, etc. carrying any large amount of money and the cop holds you until someone else shows up. They then declare you to be a drug mule and seize the cash. No arrests, no charges, just take the money and good luck getting anything back. Flat out fucking theft. Back the blue my dying ass. Fuck them all.
Totally agree with the lost interest.
DeleteI've heard those stories too. I guess I always hoped some of them were false. Then I heard about one where a couple who were carrying their life savings and those on another couple who they had known all their life. They were going to make a land purchase for both couples. A joint retirement house. They argued their case. They had all kind of paperwork. The law brought out a drug sniffing dog and the dog hit on the cash. They seized the cash. I don't know if they ever got it back.
My wife works at a bank. They had a man from some federal agency come to lecture them about money laws, situations, etc., etc. The official told them 95% of all paper money has traces of cocaine and/or fecal matter on it. He said if they confiscated all money that 'could' be linked to drugs, they would just take damn near all of it. He also told them ... wear gloves or wash your hands FREQUENTLY if you handle cash.
Yeah, I've heard the fecal thing too. I don't often handle cash, but yeah I wash my hands afterwards.
DeleteAn acquaintance of mine back then used to work at those Buy Here Pay Here used car lots. He'd travel all over the state going to used car auctions that only dealers go to. He'd carry large amounts of cash cause money talks and bullshit walks, or something like that. He had more than one heated roadside discussion with the cops. So yeah, totally believe it.
I'll bet that your acquaintance encountered more than any one persons share of assholes desperately trying to find a way to strip him of his cash. From as many stories as I heard there for several years I think it was almost epidemic to be a victim of 'highway robbery' ... by the police.
DeleteLOL! Expecting a Feeder judge in a Federal court to tell a Federal agency to stop enriching the Federal government at the expense of us peons is a fools errand.
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