United States Eleventh Circuit

In a civil forfeiture action under the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA), court's order of forfeiture is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) the government met its burden of proving that two of the certificates of deposit were subject to forfeiture because they were derived from funds stolen from the Nicaraguan treasury; but 2) with respect to five other certificates, the government failed to meet its burden to present evidence of a connection between those funds and funds stolen from the Nicaraguan treasury.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/06/2008
• Published 08/06/2008

Judges

• BLACK, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BLACK, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• George M. Evans, Law Office of George M. Evans, P.A., Coral Gables, FL, for Claimants-Appellants., Lisette M. Reid, Anne R. Schultz, Asst. U.S. Atty., Stephen Schlessinger, Madeleine R. Shirley, Miami, FL, for U.S.