Any district court of the United States which has jurisdiction under section 1861 d) of this title shall have jurisdiction, upon application by the Attorney General on behalf of the United States, to order any forfeiture authorized under subsection (a) and any action provided for under subsection (d).
After the indictment, Jill Sung said, the district attorney's office told the bank it would seek a temporary restraining order along with a forfeiture action, essentially freezing the bank's assets.
In that case the court is authorized to issue a forfeiture order describing the property in "general" terms, which order may be amended pursuant to Rule 32.2 e)(1) when additional specific property is identified.
A forfeiture order would be relatively subjective, depending on the definition of profits.
In pleading guilty, Peter Madoff has agreed to a 10-year sentence and a forfeiture order of $143 billion.
For example, in 2009, a judge issued a forfeiture order of more than $170 billion against the Ponzi-scheming financier, Bernard L. Madoff.
Federal attorneys in the US have been run into difficulty after signing a forfeiture order for bitcoins worth more than £15 million ($25m) seized the servers of the closed Silk Road website.
Ulbricht's bitcoins remain in the care of the FBI, but a judge signed a forfeiture order on the Silk Road coins - which had no nominated owner, and were judged to be "proceeds of crime".
If the agency turns down the appeal, it will issue a forfeiture order to the network, and ABC will have to pay the U.S. Treasury or appeal the case in court.
Citing a recent D.C. circuit appeals court ruling, the judge said he was required to limit a forfeiture order to a "very conservative" dollar amount, calculated based on 28 tons of cocaine shipped that an eyewitness directly linked to Beltrán-Leyva.
Picard has won court approval to recover an additional $7.2 billion from the estate of Florida investor Jeffry Picower, but said actual recovery of that sum has been delayed by an appeal and an objection to a forfeiture order.
