THE WEBSITE
WARRANT
Eight days after Teddy was indicted, the FBI illegally hijacked two of his websites, BearLute.com and TeddyMiller.com, to publicly tell all of his investors and anyone thinking about working with him that he was a scam artist and to get more people to believe their narrative.
Teddy hadn't been convicted, hadn't been to trial, and had proof of his innocence.
Instead of admitting they messed up, they were going to get a conviction one way or another.
WHAT IS A WARRANT?
Think of a warrant like a permission slip from a judge that allows the FBI or police to search or take someone's property.
The police can't just search your private things because they want to. First, they have to explain to a judge what they want to search and why.
They need probable cause, which means real facts giving the judge a good reason to believe a crime happened and that evidence of that crime will probably be found in the place or thing they want to search.
The police have to tell the judge the truth. They aren't allowed to knowingly lie or recklessly give the judge false information to trick the judge into signing the warrant.
Usually, police don't have to warn you before asking for a warrant. But after they use a warrant to search or take property, there are rules requiring notice and paperwork about what they did.
And a warrant isn't supposed to simply say “SEARCH EVERYTHING.” It must describe what can be searched and what police are looking for.
WHAT IS FORFEITURE?
Forfeiture is a legal process where, after someone is convicted of certain crimes, the court can make them permanently give up money or property connected to the crime; the government then keeps that property, and in some cases it can be used to help repay victims.
THEY TOLD THE JUDGE THEY NEEDED TO SEIZE THE WEBSITE BECAUSE TEDDY HAD ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED OF THE CRIME.
Teddy was formally indicted on September 4, 2024. He had not had a trial. No jury had heard the evidence. No jury had found Bear Lute to be fraud. Teddy was actively fighting his case.
Eight days later, Agent Aaron Lee asked a separate, unknowing judge for permission to take BearLute.com and TeddyMiller.com using forfeiture as if Teddy had already been convicted. Despite that not being possible.
But look at the government's own indictment. Its Notice of Forfeiture repeatedly says “UPON CONVICTION.” Teddy had not been convicted. He was sitting in jail fighting the charges.
AGENT LEE TOLD THE JUDGE HE NEEDED TO STOP THE “ONGOING FRAUD.” WHAT FRAUD?
Agent Lee told the judge that taking Teddy's websites was necessary to “prevent the ongoing fraud.”
But what “ongoing fraud”?
Teddy had only been indicted. He had not been convicted. There had been no trial. No jury had heard the evidence, and no jury had ever determined that Bear Lute was fraud.
It wasn't Agent Lee's job to decide Teddy was guilty.
Teddy was supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Instead, Lee was already telling another federal judge that Bear Lute was “an ongoing fraud” and asking for permission to take Teddy's property based on that conclusion.
And Teddy wasn't even out operating Bear Lute. He was locked in a jail cell.
THE FBI KNEW INVESTORS USED THE WEBSITE TO MONITOR THEIR MONEY. THEN THEY LOCKED THEM OUT AND MADE THEM BELIEVE TEDDY SCAMMED THEM.
First, Agent Lee had to convince a judge to let the FBI take the websites.
How did he do it?
Lee told the judge Bear Lute was a fraud. He claimed investors were being lied to, their money wasn't being used as promised, the numbers they saw in their accounts weren't real, and the websites needed to be seized to stop the “ongoing fraud.”
Except Lee made the entire fraud story up.
Nothing had been proven. There had been no trial, no jury had heard the evidence, and Bear Lute had never been determined to be fraud.
But there was something else in Lee's own affidavit that was extremely important.
He knew investors used BearLute.com to monitor their money.
Lee explained that investors could log into the website and track things like their deposits, interest, investment performance, and expected returns.
Then the FBI took that access away.
Imagine being an investor. One day you can log in and monitor your investment. Then suddenly you can't access it at all.
Instead, you see:
And underneath it, the FBI tells you that if you believe you've been a victim of a crime involving Bear Lute, you should report it to law enforcement.
What would you think happened to your money?
You'd think Teddy scammed you.
Except it was the FBI that took away your access. It was the FBI that replaced the website. And it was the FBI telling you that you might be a victim.
WHEN IN FACT, THEY WERE BEING SCAMMED BY THE FBI.
BEARLUTE.COM WASN'T ENOUGH. THE FBI WANTED TEDDY'S ENTIRE AUDIENCE TO SEE THEIR MESSAGE.
Even if Agent Lee could somehow justify taking BearLute.com, what possible reason was there to seize TeddyMiller.com?
TeddyMiller.com wasn't the investment portal Lee was accusing of fraud. It was Teddy's personal website.
And the FBI knew exactly how many people Teddy could reach.
Teddy was an influencer with approximately 3 million followers, and his TikTok analytics showed 12.1 million post views from August 21 through September 17. The FBI had already obtained information from his TikTok, and its own affidavit said Teddy had amassed a large following and used TikTok to direct viewers to BearLute.com.
Lee knew TeddyMiller.com wasn't some forgotten website nobody visited.
It was part of Teddy's massive online presence.
So when the FBI seized TeddyMiller.com, everyone who followed Teddy, searched for him, looked into his businesses, or clicked through to his website could now be confronted with the government's message:
Teddy hadn't been convicted. There had been no trial. A jury had never determined that Teddy or Bear Lute had scammed anyone.
But the FBI now had control of the website connected to an audience of millions.
THEY TOOK TEDDYMILLER.COM BECAUSE THEY KNEW EXACTLY HOW MANY PEOPLE WOULD SEE IT.
And every one of those people could now be shown the FBI's version of Teddy before Teddy ever got to show a jury his.
THEY REPLACED BEARLUTE WITH A PAGE TELLING INVESTORS TO REPORT A CRIME.
At this point, BearLute had never been determined to be fraud. There had been no trial. No jury had heard the evidence. No jury had determined BearLute was a scam. Teddy had not been convicted. He was sitting in jail actively fighting the charges.
But when investors went to BearLute.com, the investment website they had previously used was gone.
In its place was an FBI page announcing “THIS WEBSITE HAS BEEN SEIZED” and telling visitors: “If you believe you have been a victim of a crime related to Bear Lute, please file a report…”
LEE SAID TAKING THE ENTIRE WEBSITES WAS NECESSARY.
Lee told the judge that neither a restraining order nor an injunction was enough. He asked for the domains themselves to be seized and redirected to servers controlled by law enforcement.
That raises a simple question: if the goal was merely to preserve the domains so they could not be transferred, why did the FBI also need to control what every investor saw when they visited them?
THEY CONCEALED THE WARRANT FROM TEDDY.
The warrant wasn't sitting openly in Teddy's criminal docket. It had its own case: 2:24-mj-00158.
The warrant was obtained in September 2024. The DOJ letter showing the materials sent to Teddy is dated July 25, 2025 and specifically lists the domain-name seizure warrant among the requested discovery materials.
WHY DOES THAT MATTER?
Because Teddy couldn't challenge what Lee told the judge, challenge the seizure, or fight to get his websites back if the government didn't give him the warrant they used to take them.
And the FBI's own paperwork makes this even worse.
When Lee completed the return for the warrant, the form asked who received a copy of the warrant and inventory.
Lee wrote:
It also asked who was present when the inventory was made.
Again:
The FBI took Teddy's websites in September 2024. Their own paperwork doesn't identify anyone who was given the warrant. Teddy didn't receive it through discovery until July 2025.
For nearly ten months, the government had the websites while Teddy sat in jail without the warrant he needed to see exactly what Lee had told the judge to get them.
THE FBI WROTE “N/A” FOR WHO RECEIVED THE WARRANT.
Look at Agent Lee's own return.
Copy of warrant and inventory left with: N/A.
Inventory made in the presence of: N/A.
Inventory of property taken: “Seized websites.”
Lee certified that return on September 23. The docket copy shown here was filed November 1.
TEDDY ASKED FOR HIS WEBSITES BACK.
After Teddy finally obtained the warrant materials, he went to court himself. He filed a notice asserting a Fourth Amendment violation and separate motions seeking return of TeddyMiller.com and BearLute.com under Rule 41(g).
LOOK AT WHAT JUST HAPPENED.
Eight days after Teddy was indicted, the FBI obtained authority to seize two websites. Teddy was still in jail fighting for bond. BearLute had not been determined by a jury to be fraud. Yet investors visiting BearLute.com were shown an FBI seizure page and directed to report if they believed they were victims of a crime related to Bear Lute.
Agent Lee called it an “ongoing fraud.” The FBI took BearLute.com and TeddyMiller.com. The return says no copy was left with anyone and no one witnessed the inventory. Teddy says he did not receive the warrant materials until months later, after requesting discovery, and he eventually went to court himself demanding the websites back.
AND REMEMBER: THIS IS JUST ONE WARRANT.
Read the documents yourself. Every evidence button should take the reader directly to the underlying document so nobody has to simply take our word for it.