https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/epzvpp/fbi-lied-seized-us-private-vaults > During its investigation of a business in California that offers secure deposit boxes to clients, the FBI planned to to use civil forfeiture sell every asset worth over $5,000 in every customer’s box before a judge had even seen an application for a warrant to raid the business, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm that is legally representing people who said the FBI seized their assets in an overly broad operation. > The news provides an extra wrinkle to a case that has alarmed privacy and Fourth Amendment advocates. Although criminals allegedly made use of U.S. Private Vaults, so did ordinary people, who were swept up in the case and would have lost their property to the FBI for no fault of their own.