Sentence examples for forfeited property from inspiring English sources

The only way the dispossessed stand a chance of getting such "forfeited" property back is if they are willing to take on the government in a process where the deck is stacked against them.

The indictment in Mr. Sampson's case outlines a scheme to embezzle money from the sale of forfeited property in Brooklyn where he had been appointed a court referee.

Called civil forfeiture, 43 states allow law enforcement to keep anywhere from 45 to 100% of the proceeds from a "forfeited" property.

However, a successful asset-seizure programme also depends on a much more mundane task: safeguarding the forfeited property until it can be sold off, auctioned or given away to victims of organised crime.

Although federal prosecutors have said they intend to apply "the net proceeds" from forfeited property to compensate victims, there is no statutory requirement that they do so, Joel M. Cohen of the law firm Clifford Chance, said.

Edzell was sold, by the Crown, to the York Buildings Company, a London waterworks company which had branched into the buying and selling of forfeited property.

Through this loophole, local and state law enforcement agencies can partner with a federal agency, move to forfeit property under federal law, and then receive up to 80% of the proceeds.

In 1984, Congress created "a financial incentive for law enforcement to forfeit property," according to the report.

"The report reaffirms what IJ has been saying all along, about how forfeiture laws create this perverse financial incentive to seize and forfeit property".

Salzman predicts controversial seizures like this will continue until laws are reformed and police no longer have clear incentive to forfeit property without evidence.

SB 585 would grant Oklahomans the right to a jury trial before the state can forfeit property, meaning they'd first need to be found guilty of a related crime.