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Asset forfeiture or asset seizure is a form of confiscation of assets by the authorities. In the United States, it is a type of criminal-justice financial obligation . It typically applies to the alleged proceeds or instruments of crime.
Although there are accessible statistics of seizures at the federal level, it often happens that the totals of forfeitures from both criminals and innocent owners are combined; for example, one report was that in 2010, government seized $2.5 billion in assets from criminals and innocent owners by forfeiture methods, [15] and the totals of ...
The Department of Justice has been cleared to sell off tens of thousands of Bitcoins acquired as part of the government’s largest-ever seizure of crypto assets. A federal judge denied a motion ...
Confiscation (from the Latin confiscatio "to consign to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury") is a legal form of seizure by a government or other public authority. The word is also used, popularly, of spoliation under legal forms, or of any seizure of property as punishment or in enforcement of the law. [1]
The bill’s language is fairly broad, and says that the president may confiscate “any Russian sovereign assets subject to the jurisdiction of the United States,” and that this seizure ...
The high court agreed that government had violated the "Takings Clause" of the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits the government seizure of private property "without just ...
The domain name seizure process used by Operation In Our Sites was codified in 18 U.S.C. § 981(b)(2), which provides a legal framework for property seizures by the government. Before the seizure, government officials are supposed to investigate suspected websites to find out if they actually purchase or access counterfeit items.
The decree listed securities, stakes in Russian companies, real estate, movable property and property rights among the U.S.-owned assets potentially liable for seizure.