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Looks like they did do something on those treasury and IRS computers after all.

Do I have to bury my money in the fucking back yard?

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[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago

I highly recommend local credit unions, their version of the FDIC is significantly harder to dissolve.

[–] Matombo@feddit.org 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I smell bank run?

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

From what I understand, they were only able to do this because the funds were still sitting in an intermediary account and had not been moved into an actual NYC account. If the funds had been moved, they would have had to ask for the funds back from NYC instead of just taking them.

I can't remember if my source was an article or a podcast, but I know it was a few days to a week after the incident happened because all of the initial reporting was framed exactly like this.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I hope you're right

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Genuinely suggesting the government might access your bank account and withdraw funds is fear mongering. I'm very aware of the disappointing and alarming things going on in this administration, but this is definitely not something that would happen to a civilian

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

If everything were normal then I think people would like to believe what you're saying. But you know, and we all know, that the White House is full of wild animals who will do anything they feel like for any reason they feel like... So I have to say that your advice is of dubious value, and instead people should hope for the best and plan for the worst.

Or to put it more politely, you were claiming you this definitely isn't going to happen to individual civilians, but you didn't give an argument why. And you didn't give one because there isn't one, not when common sense and decency have been thrown out the window.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago

It's not clear to me what they've done here is not worth fear mongering about. It looks extremely abnormal

[–] qwertilliopasd@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When my dad died ss went into my parents joint bank account and withdrew the amount of his latest payment. It's not just fear mongering. It is possible. I don't think even this administration is ballsy enough to do it, though. The backlash would be enormous, and as another poster mentioned civil asset forfeiture already exists.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that just sounds like direct debit. you sure it wasn't pre-approved?

[–] qwertilliopasd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That's what I thought, but my mom said the money had already cleared and was removed as a separate transfer.

[–] Pizza@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 days ago

Fear to what? Be in charge of your money?

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Jokes on them I have no money

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Y'all understand search and seizure as well before you give more credit to this. There are other avenues for legally emptying bank accounts, some start like this...

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

There are avenues for LEGALLY emptying bank accounts.

This isn't that.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Do I have to bury my money in the fucking back yard?

Might want to go further and look into forms of money that are not USD. In extreme circumstances they could do stuff like declare old cash no longer valid, iirc something like that happened in India.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I can't find any reputable source on this

[–] MacAttak8@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

searching for “ treasury reappropriates nyc funds” yielded over a dozen news articles about this.

Here is a local source: https://abc7ny.com/post/new-york-city-files-lawsuit-trump-administration-80m-money-grab-fema-funds/15943443/

Many other news orgs covered this as well if this isn’t considered reputable.