So I'm streaming Season 3 of Ozark, and the following situation arises:
The Protagonists are running a riverboat casino in Missouri (Lake of the Ozark), with the hope that they will be able to launder money for a drug cartel once the business stabilizes. They have only just started flowing dirty money through the poker tables - which it appears is undetectable by audit. Otherwise, everything has been done on the up & up. (The Protagonist is a CPA and knows what he is doing)
An FBI agent has a bug up his ass about the Protagonists and the Casino, because his agent-boyfriend was recently murdered in the area, and he assumes that the Casino operators had something to do with it (they didn't).
The agent shows up with a Search Warrant that purportedly authorizes a "team of FBI forensic accountants" to examine every transaction, every bet, every loss and payout since the opening of the casino (about 6 months). The administrative burden on the new casino would be huge.
Getting such a warrant would require that the FBI provide the judge prima facia evidence of criminal activity, so that it were more likely than not that crimes were being committed - and presumably money laundering is the crime.
My question is this: Is it possible to immediately challenge the warrant in court?
I know that in the course of a later criminal trial, the evidence adduced can be tossed upon a successful challenge to the warrant, but is it possible to challenge the warrant in court immediately?
The Protagonists are running a riverboat casino in Missouri (Lake of the Ozark), with the hope that they will be able to launder money for a drug cartel once the business stabilizes. They have only just started flowing dirty money through the poker tables - which it appears is undetectable by audit. Otherwise, everything has been done on the up & up. (The Protagonist is a CPA and knows what he is doing)
An FBI agent has a bug up his ass about the Protagonists and the Casino, because his agent-boyfriend was recently murdered in the area, and he assumes that the Casino operators had something to do with it (they didn't).
The agent shows up with a Search Warrant that purportedly authorizes a "team of FBI forensic accountants" to examine every transaction, every bet, every loss and payout since the opening of the casino (about 6 months). The administrative burden on the new casino would be huge.
Getting such a warrant would require that the FBI provide the judge prima facia evidence of criminal activity, so that it were more likely than not that crimes were being committed - and presumably money laundering is the crime.
My question is this: Is it possible to immediately challenge the warrant in court?
I know that in the course of a later criminal trial, the evidence adduced can be tossed upon a successful challenge to the warrant, but is it possible to challenge the warrant in court immediately?
