Legal Opinion
In Re: Trade and Commerce Bank
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 15, 2018No. 17-5154PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Per curiam
In 1999, federal agents seized approximately $6.8 million of allegedly illegal proceeds from a New York bank account in the name of Kesten Development Corporation. Ever since, the United States Attorney General and fourteen federal judges-spanning three district courts and three courts of appeals-have been attempting to resolve competing claims to these funds. The Federative Republic of Brazil, which seeks the funds pursuant to a Brazilian criminal forfeiture order, and the Liquidators of Trade and Commerce Bank, who hold a British Virgin Islands default judgment against Kesten that was…
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