The guy that arrainged for trudOWE to win the last election to prove for all time that ignorant Lefty's cannot be trusted to look out for the country and its taxpayers.
Here is an article illustrating how foolish and irresponsible some people can be about crossing a border! With some comments of my own in brackets):
U.S. customs reportedly took away a man's life savings of $58,000 — even though he was never charged with a crime 20/20
INSIDER June 2/2018
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Rustem Kazazi from Cleveland is suing US Customs and Border Protection after they reportedly took his life savings at the airport.
According to the lawsuit, the agents strip-searched him at the Cleveland airport in October and took more than $58,000 in cash from him without charging him with a crime.
(Oh but LIE-berals do not want to admit that carrying anything over ten thousand dollars in cash over a border IS A CRIME! Cops look at $58 grand as DIRTY MONEY! If it was CLEAN money you would put it in a bank account and keep it SAFE! Only criminals and money launderers carry that much cash- and even a lot of the people listed in the Paradise Papers appear to be laundering money in various ways- at the least they are shuffling cash out of Canada and into Carribean tax havens to hide it from Revenue Canada! So $58 grand in undeclared cash IS AN IMMEDIATE RED FLAG for cops!)
A month later, US customs sent a notice of seizure to Kazazi's house, explaining that they seized his money because of his alleged involvement in smuggling, drug trafficking, and money laundering.
Kazazi denies those allegations and claims that the agency is violating federal law by keeping his money without filing a formal complaint against him.
On Thursday, Albanian immigrant Rusten Kazazi filed a lawsuit against US Customs and Border Protection. In the lawsuit, the 64-year-old claims customs agents at the Cleveland airport seized his life savings in October 2017 without being charged of a crime.
(So the guy is a landed immigrant who owns a house in United States- and yet here he is showing up at Yankee border from Albania carrying his “life savings” with no real explanation of where he got the money, and he is wondering why people assume he is a mule carrying drug money for laundering?
US customs sent a letter to Kazasi two months later, explaining they had seized his money because of his alleged involvement in smuggling, drug trafficking, or money laundering. Kazazi, however, denies all of those allegations and demands that they return his money.
According to the lawsuit, Kazazi brought his life savings with him on a trip to Albania last fall.
(So the idiot likes to keep his money close to him at all times and is wandering across multiple borders with no apparent fear of being ROBBED? Why no fear of robbery or should we assume he travels with gangland protectors to ensure his safety? And shall we ask if he has any coherent explanation of where he got the money to buy the house and to travel back to Albania?)
Currently based in Cleveland, Ohio, Kazazi was born and raised in Albania, where he met his wife and started his family. In 2005, the family received visas through the State Department's lottery program and moved to Cleveland. Five years later, they became US citizens.
Last fall, Kazazi planned a six-month trip to Albania to visit relatives, repair his home, and look into buying a retirement home. In order to facilitate those transactions, Kazazi took out his family's life savings in cash.
(Oh that`s nice- SIX MONTHS of family visits and fun- and when does the guy ever work to earn such money? After all he has only been in United States since 2005! And shall we guess he has never heard how gangster Al Capone was taken down by income tax agents?)
Kazazi told the Washington Post that he took out the money in cash because of safety concerns. "The crime [in Albania] is much worse than it is here," he said. "Other people that have made large withdrawals [from Albanian banks] have had people intercept them and take their money. The exchange rates and fees are [also] excessive."
(So he IS SMUGGLING currency contrary to Albanian law! If the country is so horrible he does not wish to live there then why is he so willing to invest in such a den of thieves?)
According to the lawsuit, Kazazi is "temperamentally detail-oriented and careful with money," so he separated the cash into three stacks and labeled each stack with the amount it contained. He brought a total of $58,100, which he marked on the envelope. When Kazazi went through security at the Cleveland airport on October 24, customs agents took him aside and seized his money.
According to the lawsuit, TSA agents discovered the money in Kazazi's bag as he was going through security at the Cleveland airport. They alerted customs agents, who led Kazazi to a small private room in order to conduct a strip search. Kazazi told the Washington Post that they searched "different areas" of his body, and that he "felt [his] rights violated." However, the strip search did not yield anything.
The customs agents also asked him questions rapidly in English. Kazazi, who allegedly "still has difficulty with English," had trouble understanding what they were saying. According to the lawsuit, he was denied an interpreter and he was also not permitted to contact his family for help.
The customs agents then took the envelope containing his money and gave Kazazi a receipt for an unstated amount of US currency, according to Kazazi, who said he was alarmed that the receipt did not list the dollar value of his cash. "I began to worry that they were trying to steal the money for themselves," he said in his court declaration.
(OH that`s funny! The thief is worried about being robbed! And if life in Albania is as corrupt as he says then why in hell invest ANYTHING there? Unless of course you ARE laundering money as Border agents allege Kazazi is! His excuses for carrying the money are childlike and foolish!)
According to Kazazi's lawsuit, the agents "did not find any evidence of a crime" and they also "did not give Rustem any indication why they were seizing the money."
In December, Kazazi's family received a letter from US customs explaining that they seized the money because it was "involved in a smuggling/drug trafficking/money laundering operation."
According to the lawsuit, this was the first time that US customs provided an explanation for seizing Kazazi's money at the airport. In the Notice of Seizure sent on December 1, 2017, customs claimed that the money was taken from him because the currency was involved in smuggling, drug trafficking, or money laundering.
The Kazazis told the Washington Post that they were astounded by this allegation, especially since the strip search at the airport had yielded no proof. "This was the most offensive thing I've ever seen," Kazazi's son Erald said. "They provide no evidence. They list three different things without even saying which one it is."
In a statement provided to the Washington Post, US customs claimed that when TSA agents searched Kazazi and his bags, they discovered "artfully concealed US currency." Additionally, customs claimed that Kazazi "provided inconsistent statements regarding the currency, had no verifiable source of income, and possessed evidence of structuring activity."
(Ah- NO VERIFIABLE SOURCE OF INCOME! Yeah- I think we should ask how the guy pays for his house and international travel! And the guy HAS been taken down Al Capone style!)
Wesley Hottot, the Kazazi family's attorney, responded by saying that the inconsistent statements were actually a result of Kazazi's poor English language comprehension. Hottot also denied that Kazazi was trying to conceal the cash, as he had wrapped it in paper and labelled it clearly.
(The lawyer had a month in which to supply honest explanations for where the money came from and FAILED to do so!)
Additionally, the Notice of Seizure stated that the amount taken from Kazazi had been $57,330. However, Kazazi claims that this amount is incorrect, as the customs agents seized the entire envelope containing $58,100. The family told the Washington Post that the cash was all in $100 bills, making it impossible for it to add up to $57,330.
The Kazazis are pursuing a court case because customs still has not returned his money, even after seven months.
In the lawsuit, Kazazi claims it has been more than seven months since the customs agents seized his money. The deadline to seek forfeiture of the money expired on April 17.
Under federal forfeiture law, the government is required to initiate a forfeiture case within 90 days after the Kazazis responded to the seizure notice. If the government fails to do so within that window of time, they will be required to promptly return the money.
(Oh one does have to enjoy the SILLY LIE-beral style word games! Kazazi WAS TOLD within one month of the money seizure that it was being confiscated! And now his hypocrite lawyer is whining they did not institute a court case properly and must give the money back! How old are these whiny children anyway? And is lawyer Hottot being paid by the gang that supplied the $58 grand?)
Since that deadline passed over a month ago on April 17, and customs still has not filed a forfeiture complaint nor returned the money, the Kazazis decided to file a lawsuit instead.
(I get a BIG KICK out of listening to hypocrites nit pick through legal mine fields! If the guys English is that bad then how doe he know whether agents explained the matter to him properly? As for a call for an interpreter- that is the famous last excuse of thieves who have run out of other answers! I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THEY WAIL! Let me do it over with a new set of BETTER lies!)
"We wanted another party like the attorney's office to deal with this case," Erald told the Washington Post. Based on my father's experience it didn't seem like CBP really wanted to help us out."
The Kazazis are remaining optimistic.
(Uh huh- good luck with that! Laundering of drug money is not seen as a serious crime in Canada- so its another source of NAFTA friction between Cdn LIE-berals and Yankees- but Yankees are clearly much more serious about money laundering than Cdn LIE-berals! Cdn LIE-berals do not care that our housing costs are now being largely driven by laundered money from organized crime- with a very large percentage of the money coming from over seas- as CBC has been occasionally reporting on slow news days- for 40 years!)
Erald told the Washington Post that this has been a difficult situation for his family, and it has even affected his father's health. However, he said that his father's high opinion of the US has not wavered.
"He's not going to let the actions of some employees that made a mistake in their duties change his opinion of the country," Erald said.
In related crime news- Fernando Penedo- a Cdn - said hackers drained his bank account of nearly all his money on Tuesday, May 29.
Bank hack left Ont. man with $2.86
(Aint it grand how well LIE-berals guard our security? Oh sure- Penedo the Cdn will get all his money back eventually from a bank insurance fund but aint it grand knowing that our ridiculously HIGH bank fees are enuring that hackers have enough money to live on nicely?)
(Cdn LIE-beral security is now so incredibly lax that Nigerian letter scammers are flying to United States as wealthy tourists and then shuffling across the border into Canada as poverty stricken refugees! And Our idiot Boy cannot understand why Yankees view Canada as a security risk!!!!!!)