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return shall be made promptly and shall be accompanied
by a written inventory of any property taken. The
inventory shall be made in the presence of the
applicant for the warrant and the person from whose
possession or premises the property was taken, if they
are present, or in the presence of at least one
credible person other than the applicant for the
warrant or the person from whose possession or premises
the property was taken, and shall be verified by the
officer. The federal magistrate judge shall upon
request deliver a copy of the inventory to the person
from whom or from whose premises the property was taken
and to the applicant for the warrant.
An employee of respondent’s made a detailed inventory of the
items seized pursuant to the warrant (the inventory). Fed. R.
Crim. P. 41(d) requires that, upon request, the Federal
magistrate shall deliver a copy of such inventory to the person
from whom or from whose premises the property was taken. We
assume that person to be AMCOR, with whom petitioner was closely
related (petitioner describes himself as an “AMCOR principal”).
On brief, petitioner states that the inventory was filed under
seal. Even if that were so, petitioner has failed to show any
effort to unseal the inventory and produce it in support of
petitioner’s claim that partnership books and records were seized
pursuant to the warrant. Petitioner does not argue that the
inventory would fail to show whether or not partnership books and
records were seized pursuant to the warrant. Petitioner’s
failure to produce the inventory or any other evidence that
partnership books and records were seized pursuant to the warrant
leads to the inference that either such evidence does not exist
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