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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.