Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judge allows the buildings to be sold at auction, Budd said, the bulk of the proceeds will be divided among federal, state and local law enforcement agencies...
...addition, he said, some of the money would go into a "tipster fund" to encourage drug informants. Under federal law, a person who provides information that leads to the confiscation of drug-related property can receive 10 percent of the proceeds, up to a maximum...
BOSTON--U.S. Marshals seized a tobacco store, an auto body shop and three homes yesterday in a campaign to confiscate inner-city buildings used for drug dealing, law enforcement officials said...
Under that law, passed in 1970 and significantly strengthened in recent years, prosecutors can bring civil lawsuits to confiscate property that is either bought with illegal profits or knowingly used for drug trafficking...
...most of the new chapter sounded decidedly familiar. There was no talk of changing the body of law that lies at the heart of South Africa's apartheid. There was repeated mention of "group rights," a code phrase for continuing white control. The black Congress of South African Trade Unions dismissed the proposal as "old formulas." And despite the announced five-year deadline for reform, De Klerk, who is scheduled to take office in September, admitted, "I would not like to tie myself down to a timetable...