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income during the remaining three months of
*   fiscal year 1990."
*
*   In addition, forfeiture activities affect how many federal prosecutors
*   will be allocated to each U.S. Attorney by the Justice Department.
[snip]
*   
*   Says Senator Henry J. Hyde: "The more they seize, the more they get for
*   their own 'official use'. Federal and state officials now have the power
*   to seize your business, home, bank account, records and personal property,
*   all without indictment, hearing, or trial. Everything you have can be
*   taken away at the whim of one or two federal or state officials operating
*   in secret."
*   
*   The so-called War on Drugs, the Congressman continued, "has been
*   perverted too often into a series of frontal attacks on basic
*   American constitutional guarantees --- including due process,
*   the presumption of innocence, and the right to own and enjoy
*   private property."


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*   2 Customs Agents are Facing Charges in Kidnapping Case
*   by David Kocieniewski, The New York Times, 1996
*   
*   Two United States Customs inspectors have been charged with kidnapping
*   and beating someone they suspected was a drug dealer last year while
*   trying to rob him of cash and cocaine, Federal prosecutors said.
*   
*   Three men charged in all put on bullet-proof vests and police badges,
*   according to the complaint, and stopped the victim after identifying
*   themselves as Federal agents. The Federal agents then beat the man,
*   handcuffed him, forced him into their car and drove off, witnesses
*   said.
*   
*   The victim, whom Federal officials refuse to identi