Vol. 30 No. 2 – FEDS IMPLEMENT MAJOR CHANGE TO ASSET FORFEITURE RULES
FEDS IMPLEMENT MAJOR CHANGE TO ASSET FORFEITURE RULES On January 16, 2015, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that “effective immediately, the Justice Department is taking an important step to prohibit federal agency adoptions of state and local seizures, except for public safety reasons. . . .” The Justice Department’s civil asset forfeiture program, called Equitable Sharing, […]