U.S. attorney collects record $3B in forfeitures
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is shown in this undated file photo.
The U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District, which has jurisdiction over Manhattan, in 2012 collected nearly $3 billion in forfeiture funds from criminal cases -- an amount equal to 68 percent of such seizures nationwide, the office said Thursday.
The federal prosecutor last year also collected another $526.7 million in civil actions, and $76.8 million in restitution, criminal fines...
