Quote from: SomaliRebel on June 12, 2016, 02:52:09 PM

Burt, it may shock you to learn that teenagers getting popped for illegal possession typically spend more time in lockup than you did. Get nailed on Friday, and you've got yourself an all-expense weekend stay at Teh Man's house. A delightful fete, surrounded by fellow freedom fighters, chatting about daring khrymez over tasty baloney & cheese sammiches.

Yes, that is what I said. I was appalled by the entire corporate run human warehousing system from top to bottom. It was much larger and nefarious than I could have imagined without having experienced it - yes for just four day thank God. We are in agreement here. Point of fact, as you stated: they tried to round up all the indicted "Bitcoin criminals" from their "operation avalanche" on Friday so that they could force them to spend the entire weekend in lockup before they could be brought before a judge. I just happened to be out of town on that Friday so they could not arrest me until Monday at my client's office after I got back. This irritated them no end.

Quote from: SomaliRebel on June 12, 2016, 02:52:09 PM

tale of woe and inhuman torment, suburban-dad-cum-money-launderer spends a day in lockup

Homeland Security investigated me and my family for 18 months. At the end of all that investigative effort they still did not know that my wife is an attorney and exactly what my business of 30 years does. Both of these things are very easy to determine. After 18 months of investigation, 4 years of bank records, every text I ever received or sent (including all deleted texts) the best they could come up with for the indictment was 18-1960. I was never charged with money laundering. After 18 months of investigation, undercover operations, placing a tracker on my car, etc. the lead investigator and the AUSA assumed they could add a money laundering charge after they were able to confiscate the millions of dollars in Bitcoins they promised to find during the raid on my house and business. They did not find the millions they promised or the evidence they promised because there wasn't any. The fact there was no money laundering and no huge payoff for their coffers made them hopping mad the day of the raid.