Re Mortimer

Multi-registered financial analyst, very well informed, and profoundly anti-communist/socialist. If you don't like that, unfollow me and move to Venezuela.

[Re Mortimer @mortimerry]

This bullshit has got to be stopped. We must all refuse to tolerate it any longer. Make every state adopt Maine as the model!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

At 10:15 this morning, a check arrived at the front desk. $1.4 million. Quarterly forfeiture revenue. The captain signed for it.

Somebody said the word "record." Somebody else mentioned the evidence facility renovation. The check was still on the counter when a woman walked in at 10:40 and asked about her car.

I am handing off fourteen open cases. This is the shift briefing.

Case 2026-0847. Silver Honda Civic. 74,000 miles. Seized during a traffic stop on Route 10. The driver had $3,200 in cash in the center console. He was driving to buy a car from a private seller. He had the listing on his phone. He showed it to the deputy. The deputy seized the cash. The driver was released at the scene. He was not arrested. He was not charged. The cash was. The case is titled County of Marion v. $3,200 in U.S. Currency.

The currency is the defendant. The driver is not a party to the case.

I don't seize the property. I process the intake. I have processed intake for six years.

That's procedure.

United States v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency. United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins. State of Texas v. One 2006 Chevrolet Malibu. These are real case names. The property is the defendant. The property cannot enter a plea. The property cannot testify. The property cannot post bail.

We renovated the evidence storage facility last year. New shelving. Climate control. We paid for the renovation with forfeiture funds. We store seized property in a building we bought with seized property. In Row 7 of the evidence locker, there are items that have been here longer than I have.

Through equitable sharing, law enforcement keeps up to 80% of what it seizes. We use the funds for equipment, vehicles, overtime, and facilities. We use what we take to fund the operations that take more. The budget line is called Program Revenue. The $1.4 million check on the counter is Program Revenue. Nobody in the meeting called it anything else.

That's procedure.

Case 2026-0312. A man who owns a bakery. The IRS seized $42,600 from his business account. His crime was depositing his own legal income in amounts under $10,000. That is called structuring. The money was legal. Every dollar. He was not laundering money. He was depositing bread money. He has been fighting for eleven months. His legal fees have exceeded the amount seized. He may get the money back. He will not get the eleven months back.

The woman at 10:40. Her car was seized three months ago. A 2014 Nissan Altima. $9,200 book value. She was not charged. She was not arrested. She was not accused. She took two buses to get here. Her son was at her mother's house.

She asked who was suing her. I told her no one was suing her. The state was suing the car. She asked how the car could be sued. I told her the car was the defendant. She asked if the car needed a lawyer.

I did not know if she was joking. She was not joking. I think she understood the system better than I do. She described it the way a child would. Children describe things accurately.

I told her she could file a claim. Retainer starts at $5,000. Bond is $500. The attorney and the bond together cost more than half the car's value. The hearing is in October. Her rent is due Friday. She needs the car to get to work. She needs work to pay the attorney. She needs the attorney to get the car. Every step requires the step before it. The first step was taken from her on a Tuesday in January.

She left without filing. I typed "Uncontested" into the disposition field. Uncontested means the property stays. It does not mean she agreed. It means she took the bus home. The $1.4 million check was still on the counter. Her case will be in the next quarterly revenue report.

That's procedure.

Since 2000, federal and state governments have forfeited over $82 billion in civil assets. 80% of people whose property is seized are never charged with a crime. They are not defendants. Their property is. In six years, this office has processed 3,200 seizures. 640 owners filed claims. 190 recovered their property. We report the 190 as successful resolutions. The other 2,560 are filed as Uncontested. A closed case is a success.

Maine reformed its forfeiture laws in 2023. They redirected proceeds to the general fund instead of police budgets. Annual forfeitures dropped from $3 million to $26,000. The law did not change what was legal to seize. It changed who kept the money. When police stopped profiting from seizures, they stopped seizing. $3 million to $26,000 is a 99.1% decline. The crime rate did not change. The revenue did.

That's procedure.

My daughter drives a Civic. Silver. I was typing "2014 Nissan Altima" into the vehicle description field when I thought about that and my fingers stopped on the keys for a moment that I do not want to describe to you except to say that I finished the field. I always finish the field.

$3,200 is a seizure. $42,600 is a case. $1.4 million is a check. $82 billion is a program.

I am handing off fourteen open cases. Twelve of the fourteen owners have not been charged with a crime. Their property is in evidence storage. They are somewhere else.

There is a plaque in the lobby. It says Dedicated to Public Safety. It was paid for with forfeiture funds. I pass it every morning. I have never read it out loud.

[Re Mortimer @mortimerry]

THANKS SO MUCH GROK!

[1mZerOCool🍎🎸🤘 @1mZerOCool]

Sydney Powell was destroyed for helping President Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump now Fulton county GA admits to everything she was sued & destroyed for. Give her, her money & reputation back! She should replace Bondi. Trump owes her & we need someone proven that we can trust.

[Rise Of Alberta @RiseOfAlberta]

🚨BREAKING: Calgary is packed wall-to-wall for Alberta independence — you can feel the momentum in the room.

#AlbertaIndependence

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“Female prisoners who are virgins must be raped before execution, to prevent them from entering heaven.”

In Iran, under Khomeini and now Khamenei, executing a virgin woman is illegal.

So prison guards are asked to hold a “wedding ceremony” the night before: raping the girls so they can be executed the next morning.

This is the reality for women under the Islamic Republic.

EVERY FEMINIST, EVERYWHERE, MUST STAND WITH IRANIAN WOMEN.

[Daniel Newman @danielnewmanUV]

$NVDA keeps getting cheaper. 🙃👏🏻💪🏻

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

Keir Starmer sat in the Oval Office and said: “We’ve had free speech in the UK for a very, very long time, and it will last for a very, very long time.”

Since then, police have arrested over 12,000 people for social media posts.

That’s not free speech. That’s authoritarianism.

[Gerry @Gerry39464526]

I AM Albertan, Mark Carney does NOT speak for me or hundreds of THOUSANDS of my fellow Albertans. We want nothing to do with China. We are loyal allies to the USA & as soon as we vote for Independence America will see this. We will always choose USA over China. ALWAYS

[Liza Rosen @LizaRosen0000]

BREAKING: The people of Iran are flooding the streets, demanding freedom from Islam and an end to the criminal Ayatollah dictatorship!

Please share! Don’t let anyone ignore their fight for freedom!

[Alberta Independence @albertaseparate]

Albertans were clear prior to the last election:

Elect another Liberal Government and Alberta will Separate

Alberta don’t bluff;
This isn’t a Quebec style negotiation
This isn’t a First Nation funding protest

This is Alberta quietly and peacefully leaving Canada, FAFO

#AlbertaSeparation

[Michael Flynn Jr @realmflynnJR]

NEVER GOWDY…

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Mark Carney: “Our biggest security threat is China.”

Vs.

Prime Minister Carney: “Our partnership with China sets us up well for the New World Order.”

These videos are one year apart.

[Alberta Independence @albertaseparate]

Dear Canada:

You were warned , but you elected another Climate Change Liberal

Alberta will Separate

#AlbertaSeparation

[Arab @YourFellowArab]

I just spent 6 days road-tripping inside Iran 🇮🇷 as an American 🇺🇸

They didn’t know I was an American, if they did I definitely would not have made it out.

That was the most tense country I’ve ever been to.
- 10 secret service pinned me into a corner for filming me eating food. Searched my phones, cameras, & questioned me
- Tehran was dark & depressing especially after the massacre
- Local protestors body counts estimate 20,000+ across the country— unlike what the American media calculates as 2,000.

I had the ability to chat with protestors off camera, 95% of citizens I spoke to hate the government.

The people of Iran were so hospitable & friendly yet the police were all in the streets, also undercover in civilian clothing.

I’ve been to many dark places, this one felt the darkest.

Series drops soon.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Speaker Mike Johnson doesn't own any Stock.

But he's FOR people in Congress owning it.

Even with all the evidence of congressional insider trading.

That must mean Johnson is OWNED by others that DO own stock.

Time for a new Speaker.

I nominate @timburchett.

[Jake Lang - January 6 Political Prisoner 🇺🇸 @JakeLang]

I was just literally LYNCHED by an anti white mob of liberals & illegal immigrants-

I’m at the hospital now getting staples in my skull… 😕

Nearly ripped limb from limb in Minneapolis!!!!

Jacob Frey took the officers at the Minneapolis Police to stand down, so they could watch me eaten live on national television!!!!!

PRESIDENT TRUMP
SEND IN THE NATIONAL GUARD

They are lynching White Christians on the streets!!!!!

Please help support my Hospital bill & Future Security GiveSendGo ✝️

https://t.co/96gDySeIKW

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

WATCH: Conservative Activist Jake Lang was attacked at Minneapolis City Hall today.

A violent mob was allowed to drag him through the streets and he was reportedly also stabbed.

Where was law enforcement?

Time for the Insurrection Act.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇬🇧🇳🇱 UK BANS DUTCH JOURNALIST EVA VLAARDINGERBROEK DAYS AFTER SHE CRITICIZED KEIR STARMER ON X

She called the PM "an evil, despicable man" for allowing migrant rape gangs to operate.

Days later, an email:

"Your presence in the UK is not considered conducive to the public good.

You cannot appeal."

No warning. No due process. No right to appeal.

For a tweet.

She pointed out the obvious: thousands of illegal migrants cross the Channel daily with no questions asked, but a journalist with no criminal record gets banned for criticizing the government.

The UK approved her travel authorization in September within minutes.

Now she's blacklisted.

The only thing that changed was her tweet about Starmer.

Source: @TCNetwork @EvaVlaar

[Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo]

Minneapolis (Jan. 17) — Far-left extremists pursued anti-Islam activist Jake Lang for several city streets with impunity after pulling off a ledge & beating him. Once he got in a car, they refused to let him leave & beat him more. Video by @Julio_Rosas11: