United States v. Ninety-Two Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-Two Dollars & Fifty-Seven Cents

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALITO, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of civil forfeiture for funds from a bank account owned by Kim’s Wholesale Distributors, Inc. (“Kim’s”). The complaint claimed that the funds were subject to forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. § 981(a)(1)(A) on the ground that they had been involved in transactions in violation of the money laundering statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1956. Proof supporting the forfeiture was obtained from business records seized from *142Kim’s pursuant to a warrant issued by a United States Magistrate Judge in connection with a wide-scale investigation of…