Want to Rob People for a Living? DHS Will Pay You $106k a Year to Be an "Asset Forfeiture Specialist"
"Do you desire to protect American interests and secure our Nation while building a meaningful and rewarding career?" If so, the Department of Homeland Security is looking for an asset forfeiture specialist to work for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement in its New Orleans office. The job pays between $68,000 and $106,000 a year, depending on how much experience you have legally robbing people.
Here are the "key" requirements:
- You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position
- You must successfully pass a background investigation and drug screen
- Males born after 12/31/59 must certify registration with Selective Service
Those are the most basic requirements for being an "asset forfeiture specialist," or any other type of federal bureaucrat, really. What ICE prefers to see in an applicant is
- knowledge of asset forfeiture programs, policies, processes, and methods
- skill serving as a technical expert on assignments requiring te application of new concepts, practices, and developments as related to the Asset Forfeiture Program
- knowledge of law enforcement intelligence gathering techniques associated with asset forfeiture investigations
- skill developing and recommending alternative solutions to unique and comples [sic] problems associated with the Asset Forfeiture Program
- skill reviewing and analyzing various financial documents and preparing a variety of written reports as related to the Asset Forfeiture Program
I'd like to meet the person who knows that much about asset forfeiture and still wants to facilitate it.
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Is this the post-election "I got nothin" dump?
Was Bernie Madoff entitled to keep his assets?
At least he was convicted *before* they took his assets. Major difference.
His crime also had nothing to do with ICE.
Don't respond to the sockpuppet, dude. Just walk away.
C'mon Epi...it's fun to punch "slam man"!
Democracy! Legitimate use of force!
Democracy! *POPULAR* use of force!
FIFY
I'd like to meet the person who knows that much about asset forfeiture and still wants to facilitate it.
I said it the other day, but I really think this is true: the most effective thing for "us" to do is to all be Ron Swansons. We know about it, but that doesn't mean we have to facilitate it once we're in.
You mean like SuperDuperUberLibertarian Eric Dondero being on his local draft board?
What's up with the Many Faces of nicole, today?
These changing noms de plume are frightening and disturbing to me.
I'm being internet-bullied. I might have to kill myself later.
Would you please broadcast that over your webcam so we can get a new moral panic?
I will, but only as revenge for bitches having called me Nicki/Nikki.
I haz a confuse.
Normally, I wouldn't want y'all to suffer through that kind of moral panic, but people who use such terrible nicknames deserve it.
Hey! My wife calls herself Niki. But would never spell it in one of those stupid ways you list above.
I'd like to meet the person who knows that much about asset forfeiture and still wants to facilitate it.
So you can punch them in the twat/taint, I hope? Because I personally don't like meeting total scumbags.
If I get this job so I can be incompetent, would I be doing a bad thing?
No, my wife is a Federal employee and she knows her job is completely unnecessary. We justify it by assuming we are better stewards of the cushy salary and benefits than some unknown rube.
Duly noted.
When the revolution comes, you and your wife will be the first to swing from a lamppost.
Nothing personal.
The first? Oww.
I thought we were supposed to promise to kill them last. We're not even gonna lie any more?
Sorry. I meant he and his wife will be the first to post in a Hit-n-Run thread.
I always get those confused.
No, no. I also took advantage of the first time homebuyer's credit and I to this day, deduct my mortgage interest.
I probably deserve a flogging before the hanging.
May it be from one of the renters!
Believe me, CPA is onto something. I am surrounded by useless technocrats with do-gooders' disease. Those folks are about a brazillion times worse than CPA's spouse.
Or she could get a job that adds value to the economy, and rid herself of the shame of being a leach.
I would know. I work for a contractor that has been micromanaged into uselessness by a federal committee.
If all goes well by the middle of January I will no longer be posting Daily Fails on the MLs because... I'LL HAVE A REAL FUCKING JOB!
Could we run one of these "cattle calls" like a deadbeat dad sting, and gas everybody who shows up to apply?
Time to bring back tar and feathering.
Radley Balko should totally apply.
Men born 1960 or after have to show proof of Selective Service registration? I remember registering at the post office when I was 18. That was a Very Long Time Ago. I have no idea how I can prove I did it now. Apparently one is issued a card with a number on it. I don't recall ever getting one.
Go here.
Damn, there I am.
...so that I can punch them in the face as hard as I can.
This is a great opportunity for a libertarian mole.
"I'd like to meet the person who knows that much about asset forfeiture and still wants to facilitate it. "
i can think of two people in my agency who work asset forfeiture who DEFINITELY qualify and would want to work this job. thanks, reason. I'll pass the job offer on to them. one of them is a CPA and a total #'s geek.
I hope your last sentence is a joke.