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).
2d 36 (D.D.C. 1999) (ordering forfeiture of all of a large, complex corporation's assets in the United States, permitting the government to continue discovery necessary to identify and trace those assets); United States v. Saccoccia, 898 F. Supp.
53 (D.R.I. 1995) (ordering forfeiture of up to a specified amount of laundered drug proceeds so that the government could continue investigation which led to the discovery and forfeiture of gold bars buried by the defendant in his mother's back yard).
In any civil action involving the registration, trafficking, or use of a domain name under this paragraph, a court may order the forfeiture or cancellation of the domain name or the transfer of the domain name to the owner of the mark.
This statute authorizes a court to order the forfeiture of money that is the proceeds of criminal activity used in a way that constitutes money laundering, like investing the money in a business to promote future crimes.
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.
A more sensible procedure would be for the court, once it (or a jury) determines that property was involved in the criminal offense for which the defendant has been convicted, to order the forfeiture of whatever interest a defendant may have in the property without having to determine exactly what that interest is.
Under this provision, if no one files a claim in the ancillary proceeding, the preliminary order would become the final order of forfeiture, but the court would first have to make an independent finding that at least one of the defendants had an interest in the property such that it was proper to order the forfeiture of the property in a criminal case.
RICO allows the government or a private citizen to file a civil suit requesting the court to order the forfeiture of assets, to impose sanctions, or to provide injunctive relief against an individual or organization involved in a "pattern of racketeering".
But without a medical certificate, the court rejected that claim, issued a warrant for her arrest and ordered the forfeiture of her bail, 30 million Thai baht.
A similar campaign last month secured the removal of another judge who had ordered the forfeiture of General Pinochet's passport in response to an extradition request from an Argentine court.All this suggests that General Pinochet, who spent the week at his holiday home by the sea, remains above the law in Chile, and is unlikely to be tried.
