Policing for profit. They don’t even have to charge you with a crime. It’s common practice in Georgia. It’s understandable in some cases but simple traffic stops they can take everything and leave you stranded on the side of the road, and not even charge you. Don’t get pulled over with a large sum of money, they will consider it has something to do with a crime and you have to prove you earned it legally or they keep it.

white collar guys that were charged in the past (mostly insider trading), and all the Feds need to do is add a RICO count to whatever mixed bag of charges they put in the indictment, and they can freeze all of someone's assets.   For those charged under more common criminal charges, adding a drug-dealing charge will accomplish the same thing.  Both of these tactics ignore the rule of jurisprudence that you are "innocent until proven guilty", and its easy to see what kind of leverage the government has to get you to plead out instead of fighting the charges.  Many flimsy and/or bogus cases end in conviction where the person charged could otherwise have won in a trial, but didn't have the money to hire good attorneys because everything was frozen.