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What you seize is what you get.
Anonymous
What’s a thousand dollars? Mere chicken feed. A poultry
matter.
Groucho Marx
Forfeiture is really the driving force behind money launder-
ing today. You have to look at it from the crooks’ perspective:
They are hardly inclined to just give away all that money
they worked so hard to steal in the rst place. Their answer
is to devise schemes to protect it from seizure and forfeiture.
Law enforcement, on the other hand, has been getting bet-
ter at nding and seizing, forcing the criminals to become
more sophisticated in response. It is a vicious cycle—one that
probably will not end anytime ...