• FuglyDuck
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    3415 days ago

    DOJ special prosecutor, with a complete task force of IRS, FBI, and every other major alphabet soup agency in there. Hell, even the Postal Investigators get a crack. (what? postal investigators have brought down more mobsters than the IRS.)

    • Irremarkable
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      3115 days ago

      USPIS, the United States Postal Inspection Service. They’ve got something like a 98% conviction rate if it goes to trial. You do not fuck with the mail cops.

      • FuglyDuck
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        1715 days ago

        It’s unfortunate that it’s hard to imagine Clarence Thomas doing a little mail fraud.

        Then again, he strikes me as a cheap bastard, so it’s pretty easy to imagine him cheating on postage.

        • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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          They can make federal arrests on people sending anything illegal in the mail I believe. So if an illegal bribe was sent to him via the USPS, they might have jurisdiction to make an arrest without a warrant or subpoena anyone needed. They are a federal law enforcement agency, older than most. Don’t think the FBI were around when they became, and the secret service definitely weren’t.

          • FuglyDuck
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            815 days ago

            If you use the mail service for any kind of crime at all, it’s their bailiwick.

            Which is why they got most the monsters they did- sending checks in the mail for rico, running whatever scams were common “back then”, and that goes a fairly long way back… as you said.

            They also have some interesting caveats on warrant law that makes it absurdly easy for them to drum up a useful reason to search your place

          • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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            215 days ago

            I report it as mail fraud whenever someone sends me any sort of “SeCoNd NoTiCe” without any existing business relationship with me. I like to think they get got.