Sentences with phrase «using asset forfeiture»

Federal investigators are also said to be investigating bonuses paid in Spota's office using asset forfeiture funds.

Spota's office has paid a total of $ 2.7 million in bonuses since 2012 using an asset forfeiture fund, according to documents released this month.

The bill was a reaction to disclosures that $ 3.25 million in bonuses had been paid to district attorney employees since 2012 using asset forfeiture funds.

Disclosure that the Suffolk District Attorney's office paid $ 3.25 million in bonuses since 2012 using asset forfeiture funds spurred Calarco's bill.

They are basically the most direct (and thus low level) agents involved in the election interference, with quite a bit of redundancy because of the Mueller indictments and the fact that Mueller hasn't been shy about using asset forfeiture.

Sini, the Suffolk police commissioner, said in a statement responding to a Newsday question: «As District Attorney, I will not use asset forfeiture to pay bonuses to employees.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone is urging Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to review bonuses paid out by Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota that may have used asset forfeiture funds.

75 years ago, the Federal thugs who use asset forfeiture laws to steal would have been unthinkable.

Not exact matches

In September, after a lengthy investigation by staffers at the Senate Judiciary Committee, chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R - Iowa) blasted the service for using forfeiture funds to pay for perks and luxury items such as «high - end granite countertops and expensive custom artwork,» much of it installed, appropriately enough, at a new Asset Forfeiture Academy in Houston.

Noel DiGerolamo, president of the Suffolk Police Benevolent Association, said Thursday he did not oppose the bill, and that he supported more transparency with how asset forfeiture funds are used.

He said his office will seek to use the pensions as substitute assets to satisfy any forfeiture judgments they get as a result of their illegal schemes.

«My research so far seems to indicate that it's a permissive use of state asset forfeiture funds,» Kennedy said of the district attorney's practice.

Clifford said the use of asset forfeiture funds to pay stipends to assistant district attorneys is allowable under state and federal law.

The probe is also exploring other cases involving investigations into Robert Stricoff, Donald Rodgers and Justin Meyers — figures associated with the administration of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone — and whether the distribution by the district attorney's office of millions of dollars in asset forfeiture money was improperly used by the DA's office as a reward for favorites or for the office's own political benefit.

Long Island's two county police departments ended last year with more than $ 31 million in their coffers from cash and property taken through the use of asset forfeiture — a legal practice that departments have used for a wide range of expenses.

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.

The asset forfeiture fund also has been used to fund police overtime and to provide $ 1.5 million for the East End emergency radio system, DA's spokesman Robert Clifford said.

Asset forfeiture cases have become a very big deal to law enforcement agencies throughout the region, and they will use this tool to take away your property regardless of what ends up happening in your criminal case.

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.