United States v. Mosavi

Seyed Ali Mosavi, the defendant below, appeals the denial by the district court of his Fed.R.Civ.P. 60(b) Motion for Relief from Judgment, in which he sought to have set aside a criminal forfeiture imposed as part of a criminal sentence entered on March 29, 1991. The defendant raises two arguments on appeal: (1) that the forfeiture of property from his brother, Seyed Jomeeh Mosavi (“Jo-meeh”), violated the defendant’s Fifth Amendment right to due process because the property forfeited in fact belonged to the defendant and not his brother, and (2) that no legitimate basis exists for the…