Using Civil Forfeiture to Recover Cryptocurrency
On October 8, 2025, I had the opportunity to give a talk to the National Civil Forfeiture Conference in Edmonton, Alberta on the way the United States has used civil forfeiture to recover funds involved in fraud schemes and other offenses involving cryptocurrency. The following lecture outline contains citations to, and discussions of, twelve recent […]
How the Government Uses Civil Forfeiture
Once a year, I post a list of civil forfeiture cases brought by the Department of Justice that reflect the nature and scope of the situations — all involving criminal offenses — in which the civil forfeiture tool is used. The point is to dispel the notion that civil forfeiture is primarily used in drug […]