Sentences with phrase «under asset forfeiture»
Under asset forfeiture laws, agencies such as Nassau and Suffolk police can take cash, cars, homes and other property linked to local and federal probes and then sell them at auction.
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Clifford said the use of asset forfeiture funds to pay stipends to assistant district attorneys is allowable under state and federal law.
Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan district attorney, announced a program on Wednesday under which $ 35 million in civil forfeiture assets will be used to help other cities and states tackle their own (rape - kit) backlogs, which, nationally, total in the hundreds of thousands.
In addition to the Burke - Loeb case, Newsday has reported that the comprehensive federal scrutiny of Spota's office has included whether there was anything unlawful in the handling of the investigation into the shooting of Huntington Station taxi driver Thomas Moroughan by an off - duty Nassau County police officer; the circumstances under which former Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy gave up a $ 4.1 - million - dollar campaign chest to the district attorney's office, and also agreed not to run for re-election; the legality of a wiretap placed on the phone of former Suffolk detective John Oliva; the resolution of the criminal case against well - known Suffolk criminal lawyer Robert Macedonio; the office's distribution of asset - forfeiture money; and the investigation into a number of political associates of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.
Under the legal doctrine of civil asset forfeiture, your money can be accused of a crime, seized, and tried separately from its owner.
It could be fraudulent and be reversed months or years down the line, it could be funds from a criminal enterprise that will be seized under civil asset forfeiture later, etc..
A conviction under the state's version of the federal RICO statute, known as the New York Enterprise Corruption Law, can result in a sentence of up to 25 years in state prison, not to mention significant fines and asset forfeiture to make restitution.
In fact, a conviction under the New York Enterprise Corruption Law — the state's version of the federal RICO statute, can result in a state prison sentence of up to 25 years, significant fines, asset forfeiture, restitution and more.
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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.