Modern Bounty Hunters
Police need help to obtain crime information to help them solve the more serious crimes. Crime Stoppers, We-Tip and similar organizations provide monetary incentives to report crime information to local police or to the FBI. That's good. But it doesn't go far enough!
Our Training Manual tells you how Citizen Cops can SUE lawbreakers for personal damages -- and/or to collect much larger rewards (up to $250,000!) for felony crime information from city, county, state and federal governments!
If you have recently been a victim of fraud, SUE the perp's for personal damages or property loss when it involves you personally. Using civil RICO, for example, you can collect up to three times your property loss as well as a generous court award for related medical costs and other losses!
RICO (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations) Criminal and Civil prosecution, is explained in detail in Chapters 14 through 16.
State and Federal RICO laws apply to all felonies that are repetitive in their nature like an ongoing business: not a one-time violation. But most lawbreakers are not one-time violators!
RICO is a powerful legal tool that provides Bounty Hunters with the means to levy HUGE fines in proportion to the crime -- and also triggers In Rem asset forfeiture laws.
"In rem" forfeitures include any asset that facilitated the felony crime.
For example, a $10,000 solid gold Rolex watch was forfeited because it was used to coordinate criminal activity with partners. Automobiles, 4 X 4 vehicles, airplanes, boats, computers, and any equipment used in any way in the crime are automatically forfeited!
Any unexplained cash stash found on or near the suspects or in their bank accounts, can be seized when suspects cannot provide documented proof on how it was legally earned.
Successful crooks usually have a legitimate business they use to launder the "dirty" money. When the business is used to launder crime-related money, the business may also be forfeited!
Whether lawbreakers are convicted or not, they automatically lose title to their seized assets unless they can prove in a separate lawsuit their the assets were NOT used to facilitate the crime. But that opens the door to prosecutors and Bounty Hunters to use interrogatories, depositions and subpoenas to thoroughly grill (as on a hot stove!) the lawbreaker and all of his or her known associates, friends, neighbors and employers. When lawbreakers realize that suing to get their assets back will create a brand new investigation that may "unearth" additional criminal activity that could lead to more criminal charges, they usually won't contest the seizure of their assets.
Asset forfeiture law provides an industrial-strength legal tool for you to collect BIG rewards when government fines are minimal -- or lawbreakers can't pay the cash penalty you ask for! Asset forfeiture law is explained in detail in chapters 9 through 13 in the MBH Manual.
Modern Bounty Hunters
If you weren't the victim but you are the whistle blower who caught the perp's in the act and arrested them, or reported the crime that leads to their felony arrest, you can collect up to $25,000! -- via Title 18, section 3059.
This federal reward law is your unofficial Hunting License. It pays rewards based on an arrest. It is not contingent on a conviction! It even has a "Dead or Alive" clause! It is fully quoted and explained in detail in Chapter 4, in our Modern Bounty Hunter's Training Manual.
Federal government rewards (RICO, DEA, EPA, and other branches of the federal government) pay up to $250,000. City, county and state rewards usually have no upper limit. That's when you can collect 50% of megabuck fines and forfeitures!
Your negotiating leverage for maximum rewards is obtained by offering your City, County, and State District Attorney the evidence for criminal prosecution whereby they get 50% of the fines and forfeitures and the political credit. If they don't agree to pay you 50% (the maximum) you move up the ladder to the next D.A. In effect, you tell them "pay me 50% and you get 50%. Pay nothing and you get nothing." (And you know they desperately need the money to help balance their budgets!)
Chapter 40, "Withholding Crime Information for rewards," explains your legal right to withhold crime information from nosy cops and aggressive D.A.s. If no signed reward agreement is available from someone who is officially authorized to pay the reward, you can legally refuse to provide the "original" information to them. Tell them if they're not interested, you'll offer the information to another agency. (Chapter 40 quotes a few legal precedents and has more information on this important subject.)
Why settle for an "average" reward of $250 from Crime Stoppers, WeTip, or non-profit reward-paying agency? Go for the GOLD!
Government Rewards
When an official monetary reward is offered by any city, county, state, or the federal government for "original" crime information, you can use Qui Tam common law to sue lawbreakers for appropriate criminal penalties on behalf of the government; and you automatically become an official government prosecutor with complete authority and legal standing to negotiate (penalty) plea bargains with lawbreakers -- and you get to keep 50% of the fines and forfeitures!
Learn how bounty hunters play the Good Cop role, and the reasons why lawbreakers will want Bounty Hunters to be the prosecutor -- instead of aggressive, hard-nosed government prosecutors who may also want to impose prison sentences!
Summary Judgment
When a law enforcement agency wants to prosecute a lawbreaker for jail time, file a Qui Tam Complaint before your confidential disclosure to them, to stake a Qui Tam claim to your 50% of the pending fines and forfeitures.
When the lawbreaker makes a plea bargain deal or is convicted you can apply to the court for Summary Judgment. Summary Judgment bypasses a Qui Tam prosecution because the lawbreaker has either admitted guilt in a plea bargain deal or has been convicted. There's no need for a Qui Tam prosecution to prove his guilt.
When Summary Judgment is awarded, you have legal authority to seize the perp's bank accounts, and to seize and sell the lawbreaker's valuable assets to collect 50% of the Qui Tam penalty as your reward.
When the lawbreaker has no money or assets, the court award becomes a lien on future earnings (via wage garnishment) and against his or her future assets. Carry the debt on your accounts receivable that earns 10% interest until it's paid -- or traded for future crime information.
QUI TAM LAW
Qui Tam is the first two words of the Latin phrase "qui tam prodomino rege quam pro si ipso in hac parte sequitur." A literal translation is, he who brings the action for the King (Crown, or government) as well as himself. Qui Tam (pronounced "kee tam") is an English common law brought to the United States during colonial days, has been used many times since then, and has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
When anyone is eligible for such a reward, Qui Tam law provides legal standing for that person to sue the lawbreaker in a civil action in his own name; to impose a penalty from which the bounty hunter personally collects the penalty, takes his share according to the reward law provisions, and pays the remainder to the law enforcement agency that offered the reward. That's an overview of Qui Tam law. (Complete details and Qui Tam case law is in Chapter 6, 7 and 8.)
Qui Tam is based on (old) English common law. It's still valid in Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and all former British colonies. If you live in any of these countries it applies to you, too!
Validity and Precedents
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1905: "Statutes providing for actions by a common informer, who himself has no interest whatever in the controversy other than that given by statute, have been in existence in this country since the foundation of our Government."
Justice Black asserted: "Statutes providing for a reward to informers which do not specifically either authorize or forbid the informer to institute the [qui tam] action, are construed as authorizing him to sue." Adams v Woods, 2 Cranch 336, 2 L Ed 297 (1805 US).
Update: Jan 12, 2000, In a 7-2 decision, The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the provisions of the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and other laws that give private citizens authority to SUE violators on behalf of the federal government. The validity of Qui Tam law has been reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court (again) in case there were any doubt as to it being still valid today and to-morrow.
Legal Muscle -- The "Discovery" Procedure
As the name implies, the Discovery procedure is to learn the truth to prove innocence or guilt before "wasting" the Court's time when an out of court settlement could be reached when the prosecutor and defendant realize their strength and weakness in the lawsuit. The tools available to both parties are: interrogatories, depositions, and subpoenas for witnesses and/or a subpoena to deliver to you "evidence" an unwilling third party may have that you need to prove your case!
After you have filed a Qui Tam Complaint, you acquire more legal authority than local police to thoroughly question lawbreakers and to demand truthful answers to specific crime-related questions. When they lie, and it's proven they lied under oath in an interrogatory or deposition, they automatically lose the Qui Tam lawsuit! (They may also be charged with Perjury - a federal offense that includes BIG fines and possible jail time!) This is explained to them in the Interrogatory and Deposition meeting before formal questioning begins.
You also have legal authority to require unwilling third parties to produce evidence they have that may help you obtain a guilty verdict (called "liability" in a civil suit). When you aggressively question a lawbreaker's employer, friends, business associates and neighbors, lawbreakers will almost BEG to plea bargain with the Bounty Hunter. That's your legal muscle to win the Qui Tam lawsuit and collect your reward from lawbreakers instead of from tight-fisted bureaucrats!
Failure to comply with a subpoena demand is considered a Contempt of Court, with huge fines and even prison sentences possible!
When lawbreakers know you have conclusive evidence, and that their friends, employers and neighbors are required to truthfully answer ALL crime-related questions, they'll literally BEG to negotiate an out of court settlement! Reason: The evidence you might "discover" on other crimes may be used by the D.A. to prosecute for additional jail time!
Your continuing investigation using interrogatories, depositions, and subpoenas will definitely encourage lawbreakers to pay you an out-of-court settlement to get you off their backs -- to STOP your investigation that may find additional incriminating evidence!
A detailed explanation of Interrogatories, Depositions and Subpoenas, and how to use them, is in Chapters 15 and 53 in our Training Manual.
Although police may or may not lay charges for a criminal prosecution bounty hunters can still prosecute with a Qui Tam civil suit. In fact, that's the sole purpose of Qui Tam law! When police don't WANT to prosecute, for political, financial or other reasons, or when the evidence is insufficient for a criminal conviction, lawbreakers can be "prosecuted" via a Qui Tam action. The sharing of the penalty imposed on the lawbreaker provides financial incentives to modern bounty hunters.
Criminal prosecutions require evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and an unanimous verdict from all jurors. But civil actions require only a lesser degree of evidence called a Preponderance of Evidence. It may include "qualified" hearsay evidence, and needs only a majority (usually 2/3rds) of the jury to render a verdict of liability. Insufficient evidence for a criminal prosecution may be sufficient for a Qui Tam prosecution!
Rewards -- How Much Can You Get?
A bounty hunter's share of a penalty is according to the percentage stated in the law that was violated and offers a reward. Many state and federal laws have provisions to pay 50% of fines and forfeitures to bounty hunters.
U.S. Customs pay only 25% and the limit is $250,000 -- but it includes 25% of the estimated value of drugs, guns, and contraband seized. For example, a million-dollar border smuggling drug bust or any other smuggled contraband could pay you $250,000 even if the smuggler or dealer has no bank account or valuable assets for big-time fines and forfeitures!
Example: Mexican "mules" backpacking a million-dollar load of marijuana or other drugs and smuggling it across the U.S. border on foot. In that situation it would better to provide the original information to US Customs instead of the DEA or Border Patrol whose rewards are usually based on fines and forfeitures, which in this case are virtually non-existent! Customs would pay 25% of the estimated value, or $250,000 reward. (This is one of the many tips you'll learn on how to collect rewards from various agencies when all of them may be involved and interested in offering a reward. Learn to choose the agency that provides the maximum rewards with minimum hassles!)
Full details on U.S. Customs reward law, and their detailed instructions on How to Find Smugglers, is in Chapter 22.
When rewards are authorized, but no dollar amount or percentage is quoted in the law, it's negotiable. Always ask for 50% of fines and forfeitures!
When a penalty is imposed by the court, it's up to the bounty hunter to collect it. When you do, remember that you owe part of it to the branch of government that offered the reward. They made it possible for you to sue the lawbreaker to get your share. That's how Qui Tam law works.
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