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29 September, 2014@3:36 pm
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Legendary Chicago rapper Juice has found himself in a bit of hot water. He was arrested earlier this year for “unlawful possession of money,” which allegedly found the police confiscating around $22,000 from him. He now faces a legal battle and does not have the funds fight it, and faces ten years in prison. He’s started a campaign on Indiegogo, hoping fans will help out. Peep the video below for more information.


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  • yungplex says:

    Funny how the laws aint out actually solving any real crimes. Check the real life stats on how they get their Illuminati on thou.
    The Post found:

    There have been 61,998 cash seizures made on highways and elsewhere since 9/11 without search warrants or indictments through the Equitable Sharing Program, totaling more than $2.5 billion. State and local authorities kept more than $1.7 billion of that while Justice, Homeland Security and other federal agencies received $800 million. Half of the seizures were below $8,800.
    Only a sixth of the seizures were legally challenged, in part because of the costs of legal action against the government. But in 41 percent of cases — 4,455 — where there was a challenge, the government agreed to return money. The appeals process took more than a year in 40 percent of those cases and often required owners of the cash to sign agreements not to sue police over the seizures.
    Hundreds of state and local departments and drug task forces appear to rely on seized cash, despite a federal ban on the money to pay salaries or otherwise support budgets. The Post found that 298 departments and 210 task forces have seized the equivalent of 20 percent or more of their annual budgets since 2008.
    Agencies with police known to be participating in the Black Asphalt intelligence network have seen a 32 percent jump in seizures beginning in 2005, three times the rate of other police departments. Desert Snow-trained officers reported more than $427 million in cash seizures during highway stops in just one five-year period, according to company officials. More than 25,000 police have belonged to Black Asphalt, company officials said.
    State law enforcement officials in Iowa and Kansas prohibited the use of the Black Asphalt network because of concerns that it might not be a legal law enforcement tool. A federal prosecutor in Nebraska warned that Black Asphalt reports could violate laws governing civil liberties, the handling of sensitive law enforcement information and the disclosure of pretrial information to defendants. But officials at Justice and Homeland Security continued to use it.
    Justice spokesman Peter Carr said the department had no comment on The Post’s overall findings. But he said the department has a compliance review process in place for the Equitable Sharing Program and attorneys for federal agencies must review the seizures before they are “adopted” for inclusion in the program.

    “Adoptions of state and local seizures — when a state and local law enforcement agency requests a federal seizing agency to adopt a state and local seizure for federal forfeiture — represent an average of only 3 percent of the total forfeiture amount since 2007,” Carr said.

    The Justice Department data released to The Post does not contain information about race. Carr said the department prohibits racial profiling. But in 400 federal court cases examined by The Post where people who challenged seizures and received some money back, the majority were black, Hispanic or another minority.

    A 55-year-old Chinese American restaurateur from Georgia was pulled over for minor speeding on Interstate 10 in Alabama and detained for nearly two hours. He was carrying $75,000 raised from relatives to buy a Chinese restaurant in Lake Charles, La. He got back his money 10 months later but only after spending thousands of dollars on a lawyer and losing out on the restaurant deal.

    A 40-year-old Hispanic carpenter from New Jersey was stopped on Interstate 95 in Virginia for having tinted windows. Police said he appeared nervous and consented to a search. They took $18,000 that he said was meant to buy a used car. He had to hire a lawyer to get back his money.

    Mandrel Stuart, a 35-year-old African American owner of a small barbecue restaurant in Staunton, Va., was stunned when police took $17,550 from him during a stop in 2012 for a minor traffic infraction on Interstate 66 in Fairfax. He rejected a settlement with the government for half of his money and demanded a jury trial. He eventually got his money back but lost his business because he didn’t have the cash to pay his overhead.

    “I paid taxes on that money. I worked for that money,” Stuart said. “Why should I give them my money?”..

  • Atom says:

    Even though I could take the time to dissect everything Youngplex said, let me say this, first off, atleast you acknowledge that the government is corrupt and manages OUR (the taxpayers) money irresponsibly. Yet, I’m guessing most likely that you support a political party that wants MORE government involvement in our lives. You already know they are corrupt.

    Secondly, just because many people who happened to have extreme loads of crash on them happened to be black, does not necessarily mean it was confiscated because of RACISM. There can be other factors for this happening. For instance, there might be reasons African Americans carry large sums of cash more than other races, whether it be because they don’t have bank accounts, or some other cultural issue…or maybe because black people happened to be pulled over more for other crimes. Just because a certain race shows up more in a statistic does NOT mean the direct cause is RACISM. Just because there are no white people in the 100 meter dash in the Olympics isn’t because of racism against white people. It is a joke if you are even minorly suggesting that cops are racially profiling Asian Americans. lol.

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    September 30th, 2014 at 6:18 am