Asset Forfeiture Training Hosted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Districts of Guam and the NMI

          U.S. Attorney Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office hosted an Asset Forfeiture training conducted by Scott Gilbert, Assistant U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Mississippi, and James Curt Bohling, Assistant U.S. Attorney of the Western District of Missouri.  The training was held at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Guam on August 26 and 27, 2015, with a live feed to the Northern Mariana Islands via video teleconference, and was made available to federal and local law enforcement officers and the prosecution team of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.  Approximately 75 participants attended the training.

          The training topics included Forfeiture 101, Financial Investigation and Tracing of Assets, Anticipating Defenses, Forfeiting Real Property, Adoption and Structuring Orders, Equitable Sharing, Building a Federal Case from a Money Seizure, and Ethics.

From left to right: U.S. Attorney’s Office Staff from Guam and the
Northern Mariana Islands with instructors Scott Gilbert and James
Bohling, and attendees from DEA and ATF.