That Mr. Picower's widow is able to agree to such a large forfeiture reflects her late husband's utterly unheralded career as a private investor on Wall Street, where he amassed a fortune that certainly made him one of the richest men in the country.
Another such exception is "forfeiture by wrongdoing," i.e. where the defendant intends to obtain and obtains the absence of the witness by wrongdoing.
James IV and James V used exceptional one-off revenues, such as the forfeiture of key lands, to establish their power across their kingdom in various ways including constructing grander castles such as Linlithgow, almost invariably by extending and modifying existing fortifications.
That was the year Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani announced a new interpretation of existing state law to allow forfeiture in such cases.
While none of the sheriffs meeting with Trump apparently "understand the other side" of the asset forfeiture story, such ignorance puts them at odds with much of the public and many elected officials.
And as a corollary it implies that there has to be a very good reason indeed for the life, the equality, the liberty or the security of individuals to be abrogated, a reason that will override those rights in the light of some more powerful consideration – such as, for example, their forfeiture by a sufficiently serious criminal act justifying deprivation of an individual's liberty.
This can give proceedings in which forfeiture orders are contested bizarre names such as United States v $10,500 in U.S. Currency or State of New Jersey v One 1990 Ford Thunderbird.
Salzman points out that many victims of asset forfeiture have a much harder time fighting such seizures.
Some may laugh and wave derisive goodbyes to the Old Confederacy; but wholesale forfeiture of the people and resources of such a huge region could spell major, long-term problems for Democratic aspirations regarding the White House and Congress.
For example, Smith pointed toward small municipalities around Los Angeles, such as Pomona and Beverly Hills, that "have dramatically increased their forfeiture efforts to make up for tightened law enforcement budgets".
