United States v. Four Hundred Sixty Three Thousand Four Hundred Ninety Seven Dollars & Seventy Two Cents ($463,497.72) in U.S. Currency

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART GOVERNMENT’S MOTION TO STAY PROCEEDINGS

DAVID M. LAWSON, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the government’s motion to stay this forfeiture proceeding. The government seeks this relief pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 981(g)(1), which authorizes a stay where discovery in a civil forfeiture case would adversely affect the government’s ability to investigate or prosecute a related criminal action. The defendant funds belong to two of the claimants in this case, Stacey Hogan Gianoplos and Ronald G. Carson, owners of a pharmacy that was allegedly involved…