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Oklahoma state Sen. Kyle Loveless (R) has been leading the fight to reform civil asset forfeiture over the past few years, and has faced intense backlash from law enforcement groups that have suggested his efforts are anti-cop and pro-drug dealer (or pro-terrorist).
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The inspector general's report shows some evidence of the DEA pursuing civil forfeiture over-aggressively.
The DEA has used asset forfeiture to take over $3 billion from people without obtaining a criminal conviction since 2007, according to the Office of the Inspector General, and critics of the practice say it's rampantly abused by local law enforcement agencies.
Mr Fastow, the architect of the firm's "special purpose entities", an accounting sleight-of-hand that moved Enron's mounting losses off its balance sheet, agreed to give evidence against his bosses in return for a ten-year sentence and the forfeiture of over $29m.
I've examined at least three hundred civil-forfeiture cases over the last five years that involved no violent crime, and which did not implicate any alleged drug kingpins or sizable players in unlawful operations.
Hartford's city manager, Saundra Kee Borges, said the Police Department was disputing the amount of drug-related forfeitures it must turn over to the state.
That order, signed by Judge Denny Chin of Federal District Court, gave the government's criminal forfeiture laws precedence over the bankruptcy court's process — a ruling at odds with Judge Stanton's decision last week but supported by rulings in other recent cases.
Over the past five years, prosecutors in Marion County alone have brought over 2,700 civil forfeiture cases.
The five cases, which resulted from bank actions from 1995 through 2007, produced forfeitures of $2.3 billion over the last three and a half years.
It established a special fund that turned over proceeds from forfeitures to the law-enforcement agencies responsible for them.
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