United States v. Four Million Two Hundred & Fifty-Five Thousand, Six Hundred & Twenty-Five Dollars & Thirty-Nine Cents

*316FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

BEER, District Judge.

This matter came on for trial on September 20, 1982, before the court without a jury. Trial continued each working day through September 27, 1982. Thereafter, written briefs were filed and, on the court’s motion, oral argument took place in open court in Miami on October 29, 1982.

To the extent any of the following findings of fact constitute conclusions of law, they are adopted as such. To the extent any conclusions of law constitute findings of fact, they are so adopted.

Findings of Fact

1. These are civil forfeiture actions which the…