Asset Forfeiture Law in the United States

Price: $165.00 950 pages. 1 Hardcover Volume. Index. Published January 2007. CD-Rom.
Cumulative Supplement (ISBN: 978-1-933833-38-5). Published January 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-929446-99-5

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About the Book:
Asset Forfeiture Law in the United States collects in one place all of the law on administrative, civil and criminal forfeiture procedure in the federal courts. This handy one volume treatise - with a supplement updating the case law through 2009 -- serves as resource to anyone needing a comprehensive discussion of any of the recurring and evolving forfeiture issues that arise daily in federal practice.
Asset forfeiture has become a routine part of federal criminal law enforcement. The federal law enforcement agencies, including the DEA, the FBI, the  IRS, and the agencies of the Department of Homeland Security, initiate tens of thousands of administrative forfeiture cases every year, and federal prosecutors file civil and criminal forfeiture actions in federal courts in thousands of cases as well. Overall, in each of the last few fiscal years, the Government has confiscated over a billion dollars in criminally-derived property. This law enforcement activity has naturally generated a deluge of case law from the federal courts. New forfeiture cases are decided every day, making it difficult for the courts themselves, as well as practitioners, to keep current.

This up-to-date treatise includes all of the current case law as well as changes to the statutes and rules effective in 2009.

About the Author:
Stefan D. Cassella is one of the federal Government's leading experts on asset forfeiture law. As a federal prosecutor, he has been litigating asset forfeiture cases since the late 1980's.  For many years he was the Deputy Chief of the Justice Department's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section in Washington, D.C., and is currently the Chief of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section in the District of Maryland. 

Mr. Cassella handled the forfeiture in the largest forfeiture case ever brought by the United States - the forfeiture of $1.2 billion in assets from the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), was the principal author of much of the federal forfeiture legislation, including the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA), and the applicable sections of the Federal Rules of Civil and Criminal Procedure, and is the author of numerous law review articles on asset forfeiture and money laundering. He teaches asset forfeiture procedure at the Federal National Advocacy Center at the University of South Carolina, and has given numerous presentations on the subject at Cambridge University and other institutions. In the 1980s, Mr. Cassella was Senior Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. He has a J.D.from Georgetown University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Physics from Cornell University.

This book was written in the author's private capacity as a lawyer, and the book does not in any way constitute an official statement of the law or policy or otherwise reflect the views of the United States Department of Justice and the Section of Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering.

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