Government,
Civil Litigation
Sep. 27, 2022
DOJ denies it misled court in seizure of safe deposit box contents
The claims stem from a case involving U.S. Private Vault, a Beverly Hills facility that provided safety deposit boxes to anonymous clients. An amended complaint filed in June 2021 on behalf of box holders alleged that FBI agents seized contents from hundreds of boxes without charging their users with any crime.
Federal prosecutors are denying claims the FBI misled a magistrate judge to get a warrant to search and seize private property from safety deposit boxes at a facility in Beverly Hills.
“We did not mislead the court,” said Thom Mrozek, director of media relations for the U.S. Attorney’s Los Angeles office, in a phone call on Monday.
Mrozek called media reports making the claim “unfair and premature.”
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