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The Nature of Criminal Forfeiture - Chapter 15 - Asset Forfeiture Law in the United States - 2nd Edition
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Asset Forfeiture in the United States - 2nd Edition - Hardcover
Asset Forfeiture in the United States - 2nd Edition - Electronic
Preview Page § 15-1 Overview
Part III of this book deals with criminal forfeiture. Chapters 16
through 24 canvas criminal forfeiture procedure in detail, beginning
with the indictment and the pretrial restraint of property and
concluding with the issues that arise in the post-trial ancillary
proceeding in which the rights of third parties are adjudicated. In
short, those chapters take the reader through a criminal case in more
or less chronological fashion, discussing the myriad of issues that
arise along the way.
This chapter, in contrast, introduces criminal forfeiture as a
concept. It serves as a bridge between the brief introductory comments
regarding criminal forfeiture in Section 1-4(b) of Chapter 1 and the
detailed discussion of practice and procedure in the remainder of Part
III. It begins with the defining notion that criminal forfeiture is part of
Stefan D. Cassella, as a federal prosecutor, was one of the federal government's leading experts on asset forfeiture law for over thirty years, and now serves as an expert witness and consultant to law enforcement agencies and the financial sector as the CEO of AssetForfeitureLaw, LLC. As a Deputy Chief for the Justice Department's Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section and later as the Chief of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Baltimore, MD, he litigated some of the Government's most significant forfeiture and money laundering cases and drafted many of the federal forfeiture and money laundering statutes. Mr. Cassella handled the forfeiture in one of the largest forfeiture cases 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. 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 or any of its agencies.
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