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\t\t\t\tFederal agents in Texas are playing part in a number of the biggest forfeiture cases<\/a> in the history of US law enforcement. However, the details of cases, which have involved the seizure Caribbean bank accounts, luxury condominiums, and stud racehorses purportedly linked to drug dealers and organized crime, money launderers, and Ponzi scammers, are generally kept secret. Many of the cases are a result of probes that haven’t been revealed in public records or looked at in court. <\/p>\n

Two reasons for the secrecy are strategy and legal purposes. Sources and witnesses are generally kept confidential and protected, property connected to alleged crimes are preserved before public criminal actions are filed, and investigators are provided with the court authority that they need to freeze and trace criminals’ assets. However, civil rights advocates and defense lawyers are asking, does the secrecy surrounding forfeiture cases protect the government from having to reveal mistakes they’ve made in the investigations? <\/p>\n

One of the largest successful forfeiture cases thus far involved Osiel Cardenas Guillen, a Mexican cartel leader. In exchange for a plea agreement with prosecutors in Houston, as part of his sentence the 42-year-old head of the Gulf Cartel agreed to fork over $50 million in assets. <\/p>\n

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