Judge finds no rights violations in FBI seizure of Beverly Hills safe-deposit boxes
by Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times
Sep 30, 2022
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge ruled Friday that the FBI's seizure of tens of millions of dollars in cash and valuables from 700 safe-deposit boxes in Beverly Hills did not violate anyone's constitutional rights.
The decision by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner endorsed law-enforcement tactics that tested the limits of how aggressive federal agents can be in seizing money and property in the absence of any evidence that the owner committed a crime.
Klausner agreed
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