Large amounts of cash, and not even all that large ($10k) have been considered evidence of crime and confiscated by the cops in the US. The laws that enable this have been slowly dying off, but it still happens. No other evidence of a crime is necessary nor do the people need to be convicted of anything, the cops just take the money because it might be used to commit a crime.

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