In this feature documentary, the corruption of civil asset forfeiture is brought to light through the stories of those trying to end it.

Federal prosecutors filed a civil forfeiture complaint on July 15 seeking $84.2 million tied to Capstone Ltd., a payments firm alleged to have processed transfers for Tether without a license. Tether acknowledged the banking relationship but denied knowledge of any wrongdoing.

Under civil forfeiture, people can permanently lose their property without a criminal conviction or even charges. This is one of the gravest abuses of power in the country today, and IJ aims to put a ...

Brian Moore and Cristal Starling both lost their money to civil forfeiture, despite neither being charged with a crime. Both of them challenged those forfeitures and both of them got their money back. But only one is being made whole. We're here with ...

B.C.’s Civil Forfeiture Office has initiated proceedings over a 2021 Land Rover and $12,770 seized by Kelowna RCMP on July 5.

I first met Spencer Byrd in a Chicago diner one afternoon in 2018. Sitting across from me, he told me an outrageous story about how he'd been battling the

ARLINGTON, Va.—A study just published in Criminal Justice Review answers an important question for New Mexicans: Did reforming civil forfeiture make them less safe? That […]

A Vancouver man's unusual ATM activity involving 66 bank cards and $39,000 in cash triggered a multi-year RCMP investigation into a nationwide illicit online drug sales network. The probe, aided by FINTRAC, uncovered a complex web of shell companies and accounts used to launder proceeds from cannabis and hallucinogenic mushroom sales. Despite evidence pointing to a 'criminal organization,' no individuals have faced criminal charges yet. Instead, the BC government filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit targeting three account holders accused of laundering over $1.5 million. Surveillance revealed suspects visiting multiple ATMs across Vancouver, while raids uncovered a warehouse with 200 kg of cannabis and psilocybin products. Undercover operations tracked over $1.1 million in transfers to suspect accounts, leading to frozen assets and default judgments against several defendants.

The Institute for Justice's 'Policing for Profit 4' report examines civil forfeiture practices, arguing that it hampers criminal enterprises by removing profits from crime and enhances public safety by redirecting resources, with relevance to ongoing debates on policing and civil liberties in Rhode Island.

- The US military attacked another Palau-flagged tanker , the  Settebello , in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday, two days after a similar attac...