A lawyer for the company presented a $4.5 million check Wednesday as a forfeiture of assets in the plea agreement.
Google's $500 million payment was labeled as a forfeiture of the revenue that both the company and the Canadian pharmacies received, not a criminal fine or civil monetary penalty.
Drawing life is a sharp, often darkly funny critique of what he sees as americas forfeiture of its sense of moral judgment, folded into his retelling of a singular, terrifying event: how he, on one morning in june of 1993, was nearly killed by a mail bomb sent to his office by the notorious unabomber.
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But the company maintains cops weren't going after the business for any type of wrongdoing and that instead they just wanted to seize cash through the labyrinthine and punitive legal process known as "civil forfeiture".
It's part of the process in law enforcement known as asset forfeiture, and it has happened a great deal under Obama – although earlier this year the Justice Department did scale the practice back a little.
It's part of the process in law enforcement known as asset forfeiture, and it has happened a great deal under Obama although earlier this year the Justice Department did scale the practice back a little.
"So long as civil forfeiture is encouraging police to pursue cash, sometimes even ahead of crime, you become a target," he said, going on to note that cops aren't the only ones who make carrying large quantities of cash a risky prospect.
You also get less tokens the next you play and you get marked as a forfeiture.
This latest dispute stems from what appears to be a longtime practice of district attorneys' offices using separate accounts to hold money gained from settlements and forfeitures, as well as other sources like state and federal grants.
