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[QUOTE=speeder;3878811]I respect your morality, so let me pose you a (purely academic) question:

If you knew for a fact that a bag of $$ belonged to Mexican drug dealers or Taiwanese human traffickers, would you feel morally compelled to return it to them? How about Saddam Hussein's sons, if they were still alive?

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It didn't belong to him. He had to give it back.

As for the hypotheticals, illegal money does not belong to the criminal. It is contraband. If found it is to be turned in to the police. It will either be forfited to the state, returned to true owners, or possibly be given to the findee, depending on the situation, state law, and where the money came from. So the principle remains the same: found money gets turned in to the proper authorities.