Loading ...A Vancouver, Washington, man is suing to get back more than $120,000 in cash that federal agents seized from him at the Portland airport, but authorities said this week that the traveler waited too long and “lawfully forfeited” the money.
“It’s not illegal to have cash,” said Bill Brandt, traveler Steven Williams’ lawyer, according to KOIN. “They just took the money from him and didn’t charge him with a crime.”
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, representing the federal agents Williams sued in March, asked that a judge dismiss the lawsuit on Monday and wrote in a motion that the “currency was forfeited when he failed to file a timely claim to contest the forfeiture.”
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