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Bank of America Part 2

I requested from the bank the actual letter that the State of California had sent to them ordering the seizure of my property. The bank kept insisting that it was a court order. They told me this three times even though all of the people from the levy department had not actually seen the court order. They told me that they always get court orders. They also agreed with me that if what was in their possession was not a court order then the seizure would not be lawful and that I should get my money back. I knew it wasn't a court order because the guy who wrote the letter, a low life scum who is just an employee of the state and nothing more, admitted to me that it was not a court order. So I was not surprised (relieved a little though) that what I got in the mail from Bank of America was not legal in any way. There is no court order. What the letter was was a "request" from this employee and the only thing official about it was that it was on State of California letterhead. I called the levy department at the bank again and told them that what they had in their possession was not a court order. This time I got someone on the line who actually threw off the facade that the letter was a legal document. "You're right" he said, "It's not a court order but if you read your depositor's statement, which you agreed to when you opened an account, it clearly states that we can seize your funds." I told him that I had read my depositor's agreement and I know what it says but that it didn't make what they had done legal: to take my property without due process and without a court order. Seeing that my efforts to get my money back through this bank representative were pointless, I mentioned that they might want to stop telling their customers, who suffer a similar fate, that they have court orders because that's a lie, they rarely, if ever, do.

So what's next? Well I've petitioned the Tax Board, through their only venue for grievances about my tax return but I've been told that will take another two months. I'm confident that the balance due in question will be resolved and that ultimately I will get the money back. Both the bank and the State have me over a barrel and there isn't much I can do as long as they both are operating outside of the law.

posted by Howie Hardcore @ 12/05/2008 10:49:00 AM