In my experience, the Government routinely disregards the deadline set by the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act.
So of the seizures, the $242 million that was seized between 2005 and 2012, as I mentioned earlier, $116 million was nev...
What would be incredibly valuable, obviously, to any property owner would be an opportunity to say, Look, sure, there is...
It is also a problem at the State and local level because of the equitable sharing process.
I don't think anybody on this panel actually violated the law. Yet the IRS is pursuing them anyway.
The problem is that the law simply does not provide any penalty for the Government if it disregards those deadlines beca...
No. I don't believe that it is good enough.
I absolutely believe it should be retroactive, yes.
I think that is true. Although I would again emphasize that of the $242 million that was seized by the IRS under the str...
Those local, State and local officers have a financial incentive in the enforcement of the law because under what is cal...
I believe it is from Stefan Cassella, that's the U.S. attorney.