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Criminals and burglars in the United States have nothing on authorities and attorneys these days.

Between the years 1989 and 2010, the government seized approximately $12.6 billion as part of asset forfeiture cases. But it doesn’t stop there.

In 2014, the government seized $4.5 billion, which represents about one-third of the entire number of assets stolen, er, attained between that 21-year period. What makes this even more interesting is that the total number of property elements stolen by criminals in the same year is estimated to be $3.9 billion.

Simply put: the government is stealing more assets than criminals. That is truly disgusting.

Essentially, the government can take your things if they suspect it’s part of a crime. John Oliver did a great bit about this in October (see below).