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A Matter of Fact
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1996, page 10
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) collected nearly $550 million in assets from civil forfeiture from "criminals" (many of whom were not convicted of criminal offenses) in 1994, and shared almost $235 million of this booty with state and local law enforcement agencies.In 1994, the secret Foreign Intelligence …
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