In re the Seizure of All Funds in Accounts in Names Registry Publishing, Inc.

This motion for a stay pending appeal concerns an order by Judge Spatt releasing over $270,000 seized pursuant to a warrant obtained under Fed.R.Crim.P. 41. Judge Spatt held in a thorough opinion, see 887 F.Supp. 435 (E.D.N.Y.1995), familiarity with which is assumed, that the warrant must be vacated because there is a lack of probable cause for the underlying arrests and prosecution.

*856Under 28 U.S.C. § 1355(c), “the district court or the court of appeals shall issue any order necessary to preserve the right of the appealing party to the full value of the property at issue, including a stay of…