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...

civil forfeiture (also called civil asset forfeiture or civil judicial forfeiture) is a process in which law enforcement officers take assets from people...

reaction of a drug-sniffing dog would not create probable cause for civil forfeiture. Banknote collecting, or notaphily, is a slowly growing area of numismatics...

(1950). Civil asset forfeiture or occasionally civil seizure, is a controversial legal process in which law enforcement officers take assets from persons...

inaction during riots or mass shootings.[citation needed] Rules on civil asset forfeiture allow law enforcement officers to seize anything which they can plausibly...

Often, police will auction items confiscated via police auction or asset forfeiture and keep the proceeds. Theoretically, it is possible for owners to...

Properties are planted with drugs and then commandeered via civil asset forfeiture. The Gradys, operating under a shell company called White Fish, then...

Supreme Court ruled that the Excessive Fines Clause does apply to civil asset forfeiture actions taken by the federal government, in the specific case, the...

Attorney's Office for New York's Southern District filed a civil asset forfeiture case against Prevezon Holdings Limited, a real estate holding company...

the former head of the police's Crime Intelligence Division. The Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) was established in May 1999, to give effect to certain provisions...

The Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture (TEOAF) is an agency of the United States federal government in the United States Department of the...

in extensive civil asset forfeiture, as the county of less than 18,000 people accounts for a third of all Nebraska civil forfeitures. From 2018 to 2023...

Disgorgement is the act of giving up something on demand or by legal compulsion, for example giving up profits that were obtained illegally. In United...

financing its Cannabis Eradication Program through civil asset forfeiture. Amash took aim at asset forfeiture in a statement, saying the practice allows "innocent...

of NXIVM-related entities and their intellectual property through asset forfeiture. The NXIVM Corporation was based in the New York Capital District and...

candidate or campaign 1 count of making false statements to a congressional committee Penalty 3 years in federal prison; fines; asset forfeiture; disbarment...

In current United States legal practice, in rem suits are primarily asset forfeiture cases, based on drug laws, as in USA v. $124,700 (2006). Defendants...

been taken improperly must be returned within 30 business days. Also, asset forfeiture revenue from traffic stops must be donated to non-profit organizations...

of spending the rest of his life in prison. Prosecutors filed two asset forfeiture pleadings which include lists of valuable real and personal property...

also lost. A ruling involving asset forfeiture law in the United States held that if an offender satisfied a forfeiture judgment, the government is never...

"puts the common law rule of forfeiture on a statutory footing". Historically, forfeiture of a convict's land and other assets followed on from conviction...

unknown owner.[citation needed] The use of this kind of jurisdiction in asset forfeiture cases is controversial because it has been increasingly used in situations...

are distinct from asset forfeiture, the seizing of assets acquired directly as a result of criminal activity. Where asset forfeiture intends to remove...

a 2008 album by Crooked Fingers Asset forfeiture, in law, the confiscation of assets related to a crime Forfeiture (law), deprivation or destruction...

Union on criminal justice reform, specifically in the realm of civil asset forfeiture. The Kochs have also worked to push legislation aiming to adjust federal...

just to do so..." Asset freezing is not a security, nor a means to pressure a judgment debtor, nor is it a type of asset forfeiture since it does not...

Claims, now Supplemental Rules for Admiralty or Maritime Claims and Asset Forfeiture Actions. The FRCP were rewritten with respect to style, effective December...

elections, school vouchers, tax credits for private school tuition, civil asset forfeiture, and residency requirements for liquor license. The organization was...

In July 2020, US Department of Justice prosecutors alleged in an asset forfeiture filing that Khaled Al-Jarrah and two others set up unauthorized accounts...

cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release. Swartz declined a plea bargain...