“We don’t have to prove that the person is guilty,” Sean Waite, the agent in charge at the DEA’s Albuquerque’s office, told the Journal. “It’s that the money is presumed to be guilty.”
—Nick Wing, “DEA Steals $16,000 In Cash From Young Black Man, Because He Must Be A Drug Dealer”
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He is professor emeritus of church history and historical theology at Westminster Seminary California, where he taught for 29 years. He also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007 and the Heidelcast since 2009.
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This will get worse as our entitlement payments balloon, the next generation can’t pay them (partially because it wasn’t born), and our government is increasingly strapped for cash. I suspect a lot of forfeited cash is just pocketed by the officer.