Article from Reason by Brian Doherty.
Rustem Kazazi, an American citizen, was just trying to get on a plane to return to his native Albania last October, from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. He was initially flying to Newark where he’d catch a connection to Albania.
He hoped while in Albania for a few months to do some repair work on a home he still owned there, and possibly to look for another home for his family in his old age. Given facts about the Albanian banking and finance system and the advantages of cash there, he chose to turn his life savings into U.S. dollars and bring them with him to cover expenses related to the above house needs and his long stay rather than deal with bank transfers or anything of the sort.
At an American airport, he was the victim of desperadoes who took everything he had.
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They kept his money, without telling him why, then tried to get him to just get on his flight without it. The receipt they handed him made no reference to the specific amount they’d confiscated. When he refused initially to just go on with his day as if he hadn’t just suffered a horrible crime, they escorted him out of the airport. He contacted his wife in shock and she assured him it must all be some mistake and encouraged him to go forward with his travel plans.
Read the entire article at Reason.
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That crap must end. With INDICTMENTS of those ly8ng thieving federal officald
The federal gov is out of control and is a threat to the citizens who created it.
Sounds like a small part of the real story. People are only allowed to carry certain amount of cash when traveling overseas, that is federal law, and has been for many years now. I imagine, if the reporter did any research, they would find that he was in fact told what was happening, and when he got ignorant about it, that’s when he was escorted out of the airport. The officers at the airport have a job to do, and falsely labeling them as thieves without bothering to do research, does not help them make it work smooth. The limit on cash is there to help prevent terrorists from using international flights to move large amounts of cash for their terrorist activities.
You can legally carry $9000.00 i believe without notifying the authorities. Anything over that has to be declared. The Government has to know just how many dollars are outside our borders as it is part of the National Deficit/debt.