The FIB broke the law? GASP!!!

I hadn't heard that detail. An illegal seizure without a warrant should allow the victims to sue the agents in their individual capacity for a 14th Amendment "under color of law" violation. If it survives the FBI's inevitable challenge, the agency wouldn't be able to pay the legal bills of the agents.

Even if they don't expect to win, putting a dozen FBI agents in the position of having to pay for their own defense, potentially losing their savings and home in the process, should prompt the FBI to reconsider releasing the seized property.

Seems to be their historical behavior. Loot it all, let the courts sort it out. The merchandise and anything valuable will never be recovered, but the taxpayers will write you an insurance check minus deductible.

And the judge let them keep it.

2nd link is paywalled. Try this: https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Fcalifornia%2Fstory%2F2022-09-30%2Fjudge-backs-fbi-beverly-hills-safe-deposit-box-raid

The warrant request omitted a central part of the FBI’s plan: permanent confiscation of everything inside any box containing at least $5,000 in cash or goods, a senior FBI agent recently testified.

So that's called perjury on the part of the agent that swore out the warrant application. But that's OK because:

The omission had no bearing on whether Kim found probable cause to seize the company’s business equipment, so it was “immaterial” to the warrant request, Klausner found.

So, fucking idiot judge says it's OK that the FBI lied to a different judge about what it planned to seize and why, because there warrant was valid for the search they said they were going to conduct (but did something else instead).

Honestly the solution to this violates forum rules, but it's an effective and permanent way to stop evil people from doing evil things.