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To: Ish who wrote (99889)	2/11/2005 11:08:37 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793716

sad situation. i expect more horror stories.. but i also expect he would have been convicted even though his property may have been taken up front. did he plead for the four year sentence? I support the taking of property where dealers are found with drugs. It cleans up a lot of these crack houses too. We four or five killings a night in philly maybe taking resources away from them helps the neighborhood.

To: Ish who wrote (99889)	2/11/2005 11:15:24 AM
From: JDN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793716

Surely there is more to this story. How can a man be convicted because a drug dealer used drug money to pay his rent. How could the leassor possibly know where the money came from. There is another problem with the govt grabbing drug assets though. I used to audit a bank in Key West. Key west at the time, dont know now, had a major involvement in smuggling drugs into the USA using fishing, charter and other boats. The bank I audited had made commerical loans to fishing boat captains secured by their boats. As the boats were confiscated the bank LOST ITS COLLATERAL and had to write off the loans. The bank had no involvement whatsoever in the drug deals and knew nothing about them. jdn