Entries by Sebastian Rucci

Middle District Of Florida U.S. Attorney’s Office Collects More Than $168 Million In Civil And Criminal Actions In Fiscal Year 2022

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Tampa, FL ― U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg announced today that the Middle District of Florida (MDFL) collected $168,330,189 related to criminal and civil matters in the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022 (FY 2022). Of that amount, $103,089,821 represents total collections in criminal and civil actions. Included in this amount is $43,048,067 recovered in […]

NM End of Civil Asset Forfeiture Didn’t Increase Crime: Study

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In 2015, New Mexico legislators ended most civil asset forfeiture, the process that lets police keep cash or property they seize, even if they never charge the owner with a crime, so long as they suspect that it’s linked to criminal activity. High-profile lawsuits and press attention prompted some states to reexamine their forfeiture laws. […]

Fake Reform Won’t Fix Police Addiction To Forfeiture Cash

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Nursing student and single mom Stephanie Wilson will soon have a date at the Michigan Supreme Court, and she could lose her car in the process. Wayne County law enforcers seized her 2006 Saturn Ion in June 2019 and have been fighting to keep it ever since. When officers took the vehicle, they did not […]

Warrant of arrest issued against seized funds from Bank of Saipan

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DISTRICT Court for the NMI Magistrate Judge Heather Kennedy issued a warrant of arrest in rem Friday against funds seized from two Bank of Saipan accounts in 2019 for wire fraud and money laundering totaling $310,276.26. According to an online legal dictionary, “in rem” is Latin for “against the thing,” and “refers to a lawsuit […]

Feds Expand Forfeiture of Cryptocurrency

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans a dramatic expansion in the federal government’s ability to seize and keep cryptocurrency, often wrongly-assumed impervious to government confiscation, hoping to broaden the most abusive form of civil forfeiture that property owners currently have little protection from, reports Nick Sibilla for Forbes. Crypto is often wrongly-assumed impervious to government […]

How do you protect your assets from seizures and forfeitures?

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Dan Greenberg, deputy general counsel of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, described seizures and forfeitures, how to protect your assets, and how difficult it is for consumers to retrieve their property once it is seized. Copyright © 2023 Federal News Network. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic […]