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Oliver also noted how local departments are looking for, keeping and outrageously spending the forfeiture money (margaritas, anyone?) and also aired security footage from a Detroit art gallery’s funk-themed event, which operated without a liquor license and resulted in attendees’ cars being towed, or “the single funkiest shakedown in human history.”
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