FBI victim fights for others' lost savings.
Linda Martin's life savings were seized by the FBI in a 2021 raid on U.S. Private Vaults, a Beverly Hills-based company. Martin and 1,400 other customers' safe deposit boxes were taken, including $40,200 she was saving for a down payment on a home. Martin has not been charged with any crime and is now filing a class-action lawsuit to recover her life savings. The lawsuit seeks to help anyone who has had property taken by a government agency in the last six years and received a deficient forfeiture notice. Civil forfeiture is a process in the United States where law enforcement can take property from people who have never been charged with a crime.