United States v. John Bizzell, and Charles Kent Bizzell

JOHN P. MOORE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court denying defendants’ motion to dismiss a criminal indictment on double jeopardy grounds. Defendants, who engaged in real estate transactions in Oklahoma, argue because they have been subjected by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to civil sanctions arising from the same circumstances which predicate the criminal charges, they have already been placed once in jeopardy and the criminal charges are barred. We conclude the civil sanctions visited on defendants were in the nature of restitution…