UNITED STATES v. TASKOV (2019)

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Dragomir TASKOV, a.k.a. Drago, Defendant-Appellant.

No. 17-10524

Decided: January 17, 2019

Before: TROTT, TALLMAN, and CALLAHAN, Circuit Judges.

Nicholas Dana Dickinson, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Adam McMeen Flake, Assistant U.S. Attorney, USLV—Office of the U.S. Attorney, Las Vegas, NV, Brian Pugh, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Federal Public Defender's Office Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, Elizabeth Olson White, Esquire, Assistant U.S. Attorney, USRE—Office of the US Attorney-Reno, Reno, NV, for Plaintiff-Appellee Dragomir Taskov, Pro Se

MEMORANDUM **

Dragomir Taskov appeals pro se from the district court's order substituting and forfeiting assets pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 32.2. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291, and we affirm.

Taskov contends that he did not receive notice of the forfeiture or an opportunity to challenge it. He also contends that the property subject to the forfeiture was unconstitutionally seized and that the statutes of conviction in his case do not support forfeiture. Taskov waived these arguments by failing to raise them in his prior appeal from the judgment ordering forfeiture. See United States v. Nagra, 147 F.3d 875, 882 (9th Cir. 1998). To the extent that Taskov challenges the district court's substitution and forfeiture order, the district court properly determined that the government satisfied the requirements of Rule 32.2 and 21 U.S.C. § 853(p).

AFFIRMED.

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