Word: impounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislative leaders, including House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett), said the governor's power to impound money must be challenged...
...drug dealers where it hurts -- in their profits. But the law allows government agencies to carry out "administrative seizures" that do not require the owner to be convicted of any crime. Police and federal agents in New York City and Los Angeles have been using that method to impound the cars of drive-in drug buyers whose purchases would bring merely a misdemeanor charge in court. U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab, who proposed zero tolerance to the White House drug-policy board after a successful pilot program in San Diego, says its purpose is likewise to put pressure...
Soon after the arrests, defense attorneys made a motion to impound the affidavit necessary for the issue of a search warrant, but Samuluk said Cambridge district Court Judge Wendie Gershengorn quashed the motion. The search warrant consequently will become a matter of public record...
Under federal law, the executive branch--of which the OMB is a part--is not permitted to impound appropriations without Congressional approval...
Owners of bikes the police impound will have to show some identification to have their bike freed, and a report will be filed with the University, Fennelly added. He refused to disclose who would receive the reports...