Civil asset forfeiture laws let authorities, such as federal marshals or local sheriffs, seize property – cash, a house, a car, a cellphone – that they suspect is involved in criminal activity.

This article discusses the recent White House executive order creating a strategic Bitcoin reserve, to be funded with Bitcoin ...

the Obama-era Justice Department determined that civil asset forfeiture was more about making money than public safety. It then changed the guidelines for asset adoption. Beginning in 2015 ...

In a significant policy shift, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum titled “Ending Regulation By Prosecution,” on April 7, ...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memo (the “Blanche Memo”) announcing the Trump administration’s Department of ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has issued a final forfeiture order against 2,041,087,747 units of Livingtrust Mortgage ...

I first met Spencer Byrd in a Chicago diner one afternoon in 2018. Sitting across from me, he told me an outrageous story ...

A new push by the Trump administration could result in steep financial penalties for the 1.4 million migrants in the U.S. who ...