from Government Slaves:

The Internal Revenue Service seized $446,000 from the bank accounts of three brothers, Jeffrey, Richard, and Mitch Hirsch in 2012, claiming a “structuring” violation against the owners of Bi-County Distributor Inc. for making multiple bank deposits of less than $10,000.

The government never charged them with a crime, nor gave them a hearing to enable them to contest the seizure, but after intense national media attention to the case, the government returned the funds.

The case was among many that highlighted an abuse by IRS agents known as legal source structuringthat allowed the tax-collection agency to use a law, the Bank Secrecy Act, intended to combat money laundering, to seize assets.

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