United States Eleventh Circuit

Order of forfeiture against defendant, stemming from his role in a fraudulent landswap arrangement that bilked two unwitting investors out of more than $11 million, is affirmed as, where the forfeiture of substitute property is concerned, the federal criminal forfeiture statute preempts the homestead exemption contained in the Florida Constitution and the state's tenancy by the entireties law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/05/2007
• Published 09/05/2007

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES, PRYOR and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Howard Barton Fleet, Fleet, Spencer & Kilpatrick, P.A., Shalimar, FL, for Fleet., John David Roy Atchison, Nancy J. Hess, Asst. U.S. Atty., Pensacola, FL, E. Bryan Wilson, U.S. Atty., Tallahassee, FL, for U.S.