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Wage theft is the biggest crime by annual losses (thelemmy.club)

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[-] harmbugler@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago

In the United States, civil forfeiture (also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture) is a process in which law enforcement officers take assets from people who are suspected of involvement with crime or illegal activity without necessarily charging the owners with wrongdoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States#Statistics

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