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Feds Off the Hook for Wrecked $750,000 Ferrari

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Josh

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A federal judge in Detroit has dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over the wreck of a $750,000 Ferrari driven by an FBI agent.

Judge Avern Cohn said in his recent decision that the crash of the 1995 F50 sports car was "certainly unfortunate," but cited a law making the government immune to lawsuits when property is in custody of law enforcement.

Michigan-based Motors Insurance believes an agent and a federal prosecutor were out for a joyride in Lexington, Ky., in 2009 when the agent lost control of the Ferrari. The government has refused to pay for the car, which had been stolen and was being kept as part of an investigation.

The insurance company's attorney did not immediately return a message seeking comment Monday

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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011...-750g-ferrari/?intcmp=obnetwork#ixzz1aZudjs6B
 
The owner needs to write a big fat check to his senator... and make the senator bitch slap those agents.
 
I can understand some immunity if the vehicle is impounded and there's a minor scratch or something, but the agent took the damn thing for a joyride (isn't that just saying they stole it?). They should be charged with theft and the government should have to pay the damages. What bull.
 
silverpig said:
I could see the GOVERNMENT not being responsible, but the agents involved should be responsible for sure.
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Seeing as the agents do not have $750,000.. the government would have to foot the bill for the joyride gone wrong.

At the very least these agents should be fired. Not only did the wreck the ferrari on a joyride... but any court case will against the ones who stole it originally might be in jeopardy.

But nothing will come of it.
 
More...
http://news.yahoo.com/feds-off-hook-wreck-ferrari-fbi-agent-221000918.html

... in an email that was released to the insurance company, Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Hamilton Thompson said he was invited for a "short ride" before the Ferrari was to be moved from an impound garage.

The driver, FBI agent Fred Kingston, lost control and the car hit bushes and a small tree, Thompson said.
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The insurance company claimed the Ferrari was not actually in custody because the insurer had granted permission for the government to hold the car. The judge disagreed.

"The government's purpose in holding the vehicle was not to create a status of either consent or punitive coercion. ... Rather, the object was to control and preserve relevant evidence," Cohn said in an 11-page decision on Sept. 27.
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The agent should be arrested and charged with Grand Thief Auto. The Assistant Attorney should be charged with accessory to theft.
But that's in the fantasy world, in this real world, the mafia/fed/police can do whatever they want and any wrongdoings are inconsequential...
 
I would like to point out that the party getting shafted here is the insurance company.

IIRC from what I've heard of this over the last few years:

- Car was stolen
- Insurance co paid out for it
- Car was recovered
- Insurance co now wants the car since they paid for it
- FBI wrecks it
- Insurance co sues FBI

So the owner is probably long since over this, & is on to an Enzo or wherever one goes from an F50.

Viper GTS
 
The people suing were saying that is what they were doing, the joyride, but sounds like they have no proof that was what was being done to begin with.
 
Newbian said:
The people suing were saying that is what they were doing, the joyride, but sounds like they have no proof that was what was being done to begin with.
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is a quote from an Assistant U.S. Attorney not good enough for you?

Assistant U.S. Attorney J. Hamilton Thompson said he was invited for a "short ride" before the Ferrari was to be moved from an impound garage.

The driver, FBI agent Fred Kingston, lost control and the car hit bushes and a small tree, Thompson said.
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rudder said:
Seeing as the agents do not have $750,000.. the government would have to foot the bill for the joyride gone wrong.

At the very least these agents should be fired. Not only did the wreck the ferrari on a joyride... but any court case will against the ones who stole it originally might be in jeopardy.

But nothing will come of it.
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Why? The government didn't do anything wrong. The agents did.
 
silverpig said:
Why? The government didn't do anything wrong. The agents did.
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You can't have things both ways. If a company is responsible for the actions of it's agents(affirmed through thousands of court cases), then the government is responsible for the actions of it's agents.
 
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