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When the government seizes cryptocurrency, the case caption names the coins, not you, and the deadlines decide almost everything. A litigator maps the three forfeiture machines (federal civil, federal criminal, California state), the claim deadlines that can run from a website posting you never saw, and the realistic routes to getting seized crypto back.
Stolen crypto is recoverable where it touches the regulated financial system, and only while it sits there. A California litigator's honest guide to freezes, treble damages under Penal Code section 496, constructive trusts, the FBI lane, and the recovery scams that target victims twice.
The bill most founders name—SB 1047—was vetoed. California's actual frontier-AI law is SB 53, effective January 1, 2026, and most startups fall below its threshold. Here is which California AI law applies to you.
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