Legal Opinion
United States v. $94,000.00 in United States Currency, Along With Any Interest Earned Thereon in First Financial Savings Ass'n Account 79-70063411
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 26, 1993No. 92-1610PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment of forfeiture entered by the district court on the government’s 1990 Complaint for Forfeiture of funds deposited in two Milwaukee bank accounts, pursuant to the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act, 31 U.S.C. § 5317(c) (1988).1 Section 5317 makes the failure to report large sums of money, not the importing or exporting of the money, an illegal act. The accounts were in the name of appellant Zalá Musa Baki Yusuf, a Brazilian businessman. Mr. Yusuf filed a claim for the return of the monies, and the matter was tried before a…
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