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50 U.S.C. § 215 — Institution of confiscation proceedings

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The Attorney General, or a U.S. attorney where the property is located, can start court proceedings to confiscate property — if they do, the case benefits the United States alone. A private person can instead file an information with that attorney, and then any recovered proceeds are split evenly between the informer and the United States.

The Attorney General, or the United States attorney for the judicial district where the property currently sits, has the authority to start condemnation proceedings against that property. If the Attorney General or that U.S. attorney brings the case, the proceeds go entirely to the United States. Alternatively, any person can file an information — a formal accusation — with that attorney instead. If a private person does this, the proceeds are split: half goes to that informer, and half goes to the United States.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

The Attorney General, or the United States attorney for any judicial district in which such property may at the time be, may institute the proceedings of condemnation, and in such case they shall be wholly for the benefit of the United States; or any person may file an information with such attorney, in which case the proceedings shall be for the use of such informer and the United States in equal parts.

Source credit: (R.S. § 5311; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 909.)

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  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 646 · 62 Stat. 909

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