Sentences with phrase «justice seized assets»

Summary: After the Department of Justice seized assets in an alleged misappropriation of public funds scheme, some major American law firms have...

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This summer, the Justice Department took the first public steps toward seizing $ 1 billion in assets that it says were moved to the United States after being taken from 1MDB by family and friends of Mr. Najib, the prime minister.

An attempt by the U.S. Department of Justice to seize assets bought with some of the $ 3.5 billion it says was stolen from 1MDB offer the clearest account yet of the bank's deep relationship with the Malaysian fund.

On 23 June 2013, it was reported that the US Drug Enforcement Administration listed 11.02 bitcoins as a seized asset in a United States Department of Justice seizure notice pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881.

The US Justice Department says at least US$ 4.5 billion was stolen from 1MDB by associates of Najib, and it is working to seize US$ 1.7 billion taken from the fund to buy assets in the US, potentially its largest asset seizure ever.

Within the past decade, banking and insurance companies have hired historical legal experts and spent a lot of time litigation over the US Federal Court system's power to issue equitable remedies such as the Mareva injunction and equitable liens to seize assets in federal litigation; the Alien Torts Act which has been used by international human rights organizations had its breadth restricted by use of 18th century views of the «law of nations» requiring recourse to historic writers like Hugo Grotius, and even administrative law has come under assault by dissents of Justice Thomas arguing that the «Chevron» doctrine of deference to agency interpretations of their own statutes should be set aside as being incompatible with the understanding of the American separation of powers doctrine as it was understood at the time of the country's founding.

In the court below, Mr. Justice Kent finds there is a common issue underlying claims made by Mr. Stallan — namely whether Ms. Lisa Palleson (his former spouse) wrongfully seized control of certain assets and transferred them to her mother to start and operate a new business.

In claiming it was a front for the gambling industry, the Department of Justice was very aggressive in seizing the payment processor's assets in California.

Back in 2015, the Department of Justice limited the situations where local police can use a federal version of asset forfeiture to seize someone's property without evidence of a crime under Attorney General Eric Holder.