United States v. $321,470.00, United States Currency, Appeal of Michael Cambeletta, Movant-Appellant

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• providing that claim of possession, standing alone, is gen- erally insufficient to confer standing
• finding a courier carrying cash from an unknown owner to an unknown recipient (raising inference of a mule of drug traffickers) must be prepared to demonstrate a lawful possessory interest
• finding that where claimant is unwilling or unable to provide any evidence supporting his assertion that he has a lawful possessory interest in the money seized then he has failed to carry his burden of proof that he has standing to claim the seized property or contest the forfeiture
• two grams of cocaine “indicates that [participant] ... had access to drug dealers — a small thing but one not without relevance.”
• “No one can question the standing of a bailee or agent to attack a forfeiture of property subject to a lawful or even color-ably lawful bailment or agency.”
• “In narcotics, money is bundled in $1,000 and $5,000 bundles primarily . . . .”

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