United States Ninth Circuit

In an appeal from the district court's order striking claimant's claim to his assets in a civil forfeiture proceeding, the order is affirmed where: 1) 18 U.S.C. section 1956 authorized federal jurisdiction over forfeiture actions for proceeds of a violation of 18 U.S.C. section 1324, if that violation was for financial gain; and 2) 28 U.S.C. section 2466(a), the fugitive disentitlement statute, applied to claimants who were fugitives from state criminal proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/08/2009
• Decided 09/08/2009
• Published 09/08/2009

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:, Before: W. FLETCHER, CARLOS T. BEA and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen R. Sady, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Portland, OR, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Amy Potter, Leslie Jauanna Westphal, Robert David Nesler, Office of the United States Attorney, Portland, OR, for the appellee.