Seizures

Crypto Asset Forfeiture in California: How the Government Seizes Digital Assets, and How Owners Fight Back

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.