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Sentencing was scheduled for March 1. The major count, racketeering, carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and forfeiture of all illgotten profits. A hearing will be held before a judge to determine how much money must be returned...
Prosecutors are using one new ploy to hamper gangsters' ability to retain legal talent. They are invoking the forfeiture provisions of drug and racketeering laws to seize any attorney fees paid with illgotten gains. In a Colorado case last month, a federal judge disallowed such seizures, saying they violate a defendant's right to the legal representation of his choice. But last week in New York, another federal judge allowed prosecutors to subpoena information about the source of the fee paid to a lawyer in a narcotics case. Said Judge David Edelstein: "In the same manner that a defendant cannot...
Even if these claims are valid, they are not new, especially to Black Americans. They should come as no surprise to any American nor should they because for the cessation of this long overdue remedy. Privilege (illgotten or otherwise) is seldom relinquished without strife...
...with drug profits. Prosecutors must go through a distinct and scrupulous legal process to prove that the gains were specifically illgotten. Says Miami U.S. Attorney Stanley Marcus: "It takes a lot?I mean a lot?to convince a federal judge that $10 million in someone's personal bank account should be taken away from him." Nonetheless, the DEA and other federal agencies last year managed to seize about $100 million in cash, $40 million worth of aircraft, boats and cars, and $20 million in real estate. Local police also seem to get a special kick from seeing cocaine merchants stripped...
...federal district court judge in Virginia, Oren Lewis, granted an injunction barring Snepp from writing anything else about the CIA without clearance; Lewis also ordered Snepp to forfeit his "illgotten gains" from Decent Interval. Last year an appeals court was only slightly more sympathetic to Snepp's pleas. It upheld the injunction and gave its blessing to some form of financial penalty-but not to confiscation of Snepp's earnings. Still not satisfied, Snepp decided to appeal to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the prior-clearance requirement impinged on his First Amendment right of free speech...