In Re Restraint of Bowman Gaskins Financial Group

MEMORANDUM OPINION

ELLIS, District Judge.

In this ongoing visa fraud, money laundering, and tax evasion investigation of an individual and the company he controls, the government seeks by preindictment process to restrain funds the targeted company paid to the targeted individual’s daughters for the purpose of preserving these funds for future forfeiture. The government claims this money is subject to preindietment restraint, and ultimately to forfeiture, on the grounds (i) that these funds, if not proceeds of visa fraud and money laundering, are subject to preindietment restraint as substitute…