Feds Raid Home of Woman Over Issue Involving Federal Funds

Feds Mysteriously Raid Home of Woman Over Incident Involving Federal Funds

Posted June 8, 2011 11:25am by HVnews

Tags: California, defaulted student loans, Department of Education, Elliot Mandel, Kenneth Wright, Stockton, Your Government At Work

Everyone knows it’s important to pay back their student loans in time to avoid any unfortunate consequences. The Department of Education has a wide variety of choices to exercise on people who default on their loans, including taking tax refunds, taking federal benefits and filing lawsuits. But that’s for the people that just default on their loans.

For others who engage in criminal activities, there are certain powers that the Department of Education can call upon to bring people to justice. According to News10,

“The Office of the Inspector General is a semi-independent branch of the education department that executes warrants for criminal offenses such as student aid fraud, embezzlement of federal aid and bribery, according to Hamilton. The agency serves 30 to 35 search warrants a year.”

But an incident in Stockton, California has caused confusion among media sources as the initial reports of such a warrant being issued were erroneous.

Kenneth Wright was just hanging out in his boxers at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning when a team of federal agents busted in through his front door looking for Wright’s estranged wife. The officers took Wright outside by his neck and handcuffed him on the lawn. They then proceeded to put him in a patrol car with his three young children, aged 3, 7, and 11. Wright was forced to remain in the back of the patrol car for six hours as the Feds went looking for his wife.

According to Yahoo!:

Education Department Press Secretary Justin Hamilton said in a statement to The Lookout that the department “does not execute search warrants for late loan payments.” Hamilton said the department cannot comment on this particular case until the investigation is over, but did add that the claim the warrant was executed for late loan payment is untrue. The raid was related to a criminal investigation of Wright’s wife.

Though the DOE has the power to exercise search warrants against criminals who tamper with federal aid funds, it doesn’t have the right to traumatize a man and his three young children for the actions of an estranged wife. After being embarrassed on his own lawn and having his kids so pained , Kenneth Wright only wanted an apology and a new door for his house.

No response as of yet if the DOE will be providing Wright with either of the things he’s asked for.

If you didn’t have an incentive to repay those student loans before, remember that the Department of Education has guys that can kick your door in .

Also, check out the Department of Education’s logo — it’s starting to look a bit like a Whomping Willow.

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Posted June 8, 2011 11:25am

http://Website ethan
Oh the hypocrisy! The government fully supports forgiving all those who foreclosed on their homes (or know, didn’t pay back money they borrowed from banks), but use their guns to chase down folks who haven’t paid THEM back.
So the moral is: if you borrow money from a private institution, it’s cool (and in fact encouraged!) to not pay it back (because those banks were mean and greedy!). But if you borrow from the government and don’t pay back, expect (tax-payer funded) SWAT teams to arrive at your door.
Conclusion: when the people with all the guns make all the rules, the rest of us are in big, big trouble.
Sweet system guys!
http://www.reichellaw.com Mark Reichel
I am the attorney for Kenneth Wright and his young children and will be filing suit on their behalf.
Mr. Wright, who is divorced from Mrs. Wright, was at home at 6 a.m. with his 3 children, a daughter aged 3 and two boys just slightly older. Their door was kicked down, Kenneth was dragged wearing only boxer shorts (which ripped during the dragging) to his front lawn and a knee was placed against his neck for 45 minutes. He was not shown a copy of any warrant, nor told much of what was going on. When he saw a patrol car by stretching his neck off the grass, he was pleased to find out it wasn’t some organized crime hit on his family, or a crime gang at the wrong address. His children were then marched downstairs with their hands up at gunpoint. Yes, that happened.
6 hours later, when their tiny house had been thoroughly searched by the 15 SWAT team members, they were told they were looking for Mrs. Wright, who appears to be a suspect for low level student loan fraud. This was news to the Wrights, who would have kindly allowed such a search and would have helped them to find Mrs. Wright, if they could. If they could have the knee off their neck. The 15 armed federal SWAT members were ready just in case Mrs. Wright started throwing phony loan documents at them, some with staples.
Mrs. Wright is not related to Osama Bin Laden. Financial executives who did more harm to this country than the Japanese at Pearl Harbor or Al Qaeda did in New York get charged with stealing billions of dollars and are courteously summoned to appear in court when charged. They are in essence “asked” to appear, on their own, in their best suit, in a limo. She hasn’t been charged, is just under investigation.
Hamilton, Madison, Washington and Jefferson are indeed crying somewhere as they watch what has happened to the people in this country.
Mark Reichel
http://www.reichelplesser.com
concerned
The members of the SWAT Team should be criminally charged for abusing the man and his children. Traumatizing children like this over an unpaid student loan is criminal. Who are these SWAT members who would willingly do something like this? Are they psychopathic?
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