Originally Posted by
David A. Rowe
Absolutely any agency not at the federal level. I've seen more than enough first and second hand accounts of the federal juggernaut cart crush people (completely outside of my careers). Firstly, they take exception to you and your business, in particular. Most likely because you're in competition, somehow, in any capacity with those in the club. Then, they either pass new or utilize extant law that begat some regulatory point, and they throw the entire weight of the process against you leveraging down on that one point. Your business will be dissolved, your wealth largely subsumed, your family destroyed and your reputation in tatters -- not that it will matter while you serve several years in a federal prison for your high crimes. That's the option where you cooperate.
I even know of one man who was called in front of the bureaucrats, lawyers, and agents. He was told flatly that he had the choice between the option I mentioned or to fight it, and by fighting it he would only extend his suffering because they would break him financially and psychologically before he arrived at the same fate. He committed suicide after prison.
The FBI doesn't shoot you because they're monsters separated by several orders of magnitude from merely corrupt or incompetent officers.