A Bizarre Forfeiture
According to an AP story, a Maine man sold some drugs to the cops, then bought a winning lottery ticket with the proceeds. He was busted a few minutes later, and the ticket confiscated. In this case, there can be no doubt that the ticket was bought with ill-gotten gains, and the court will most likely order ticket forfeited. Do you think the cops will then rip it up, thereby refunding the money to the taxpayers, or cash it and spend the money?
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Date: December 6, 2007, 1:30 pm
[...] with this post at Green Mountain Daily, it spread in our local blogsphere, such as TrueVermont and found its way on to the national blogsphere at the Huffington Post, as all this has caused [...]