The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles misled the judge who signed a search warrant that led to more than $86 million in cash being seized, a report says.
The FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s office in Los Angeles misled the judge who signed a search warrant that led to more than $86 million in cash being seized, theFBI agents suspected criminal activity at U.S. Private Vaults, a Beverly Hills store with more than 1,000 private safe-deposit boxes. The FBIits investigation into the business after local law enforcement and federal agents spotted suspected drug dealers and purchasers walking in and out of the store.
Despite not backing up their suspicions with any facts, the FBI agents applied for a search warrant to determine the validity of their suspicions. United States Magistrate Judge Steve Kim approved the search warrant, but explicitly limited the scope of the search. In the summer of 2020, she testified, Matthew Moon, then one of the highest-ranking FBI agents in Los Angeles, asked her if her team “was capable of handling a possible large-scale seizure” of safe-deposit boxes at U.S. Private Vaults.
“At no time was a magistrate misled as to the probable cause used to obtain the warrants,” FBI spokesperson Laura EimillerFederal prosecutors similarly claimed the FBI did not have to tell the judge “how later actions, such as criminal investigations against boxholders or forfeiture of box contents, would play out,” acceding to court filings.
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