Arizona allegedly submitted at least 140 subpoenas illegally to obtain millions of financial records as part of one of the largest government financial surveillance programs in recent history, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
The ACLU filed a public records request in March 2022 after Sen. Ron Wyden requested an investigation into a secret surveillance program that collected millions of money transfers from people sending money to or from the Southwest United States and Mexico.
The program traces back to 2006, when the office of Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard tried to identify money transfers related to illegal activity and issued subpoenas to Western Union, asking for all money transfers above $300 to or from"a particular state in Mexico," the ACLU said. A state appellate court held in 2006 that the subpoenas violated state law and expanded the statute that the subpoenas were filed under.
After the request for an investigation from Wyden, the Department of Homeland Security responded, stating that it would no longer use its authority to request the financial records.
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