But a few, like Cluett, have faced several. When the Civil Forfeiture Act was launched in April 2006 as a tool to take ill-gotten assets from criminals, then solicitor general John Les lauded it.

Under civil asset forfeiture laws, police can seize cash and property suspected of being connected to illegal activity, even if the owner is not charged with a crime. Although the DEA has ended ...

Russia spent almost a quarter of the national wealth fund’s available reserves last year to keep the economy on a war footing and finance its invasion of Ukraine. The National Wellbeing Fund ...

A Washoe County judge ruled that Nevada law enforcement cannot use an "equitable sharing" civil forfeiture program ... law enforcement agencies seize assets—whether cash, cars, or other property ...

Nine years after one of the largest corruption scandals to emerge from Latin America and the Caribbean, the government of Antigua and Barbuda has secured a court-ordered forfeiture of EC $93.8 ...

But they decided that Lara's money was likely drug proceeds, and they coordinated with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to forfeit it through a process called civil asset forfeiture.

Washoe County Second Judicial District Court Judge Connie Steinheimer on Friday ruled that the Nevada Department of Public Safety’s participation in a federal civil asset forfeiture program is ...

"The court recognized that Nevada’s civil forfeiture laws are clear: state police cannot outsource forfeitures to the federal government to make extra money." The case stemmed from the 2021 ...

A DESSERT parlour at Basildon's £25million cinema complex has been forced to close after the council issued a forfeiture notice. Kaspas, on the ground floor of the Vue cinema complex in the ...

Nasri, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the U.S. government must satisfy Due Process requirements before it can seek civil forfeiture of assets located abroad. The 2-1 ...