It sounds like you're talking about abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws. Under criminal forfeiture, you have to be found guilty to have your assets seized. However, under civil forfeiture, you don't even have to be charged with a crime to have your cash, car, house and other property seized. And in this situation, you're guilty until you can prove those assets were acquired legally.

The agencies can sell it all off and use the proceeds to pad their own agency budgets.