United States v. Ronald N. Totaro, Adrienne Totaro, Interested Party-Appellant

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• collecting cases that “have rejected state divorce law as the basis for a spouse’s claim to a legal right, title or interest in forfeited property”
• involving forfeiture under 18 U.S.C. Section 1963(a), which permits forfeiture of property “acquired or maintained” in violation of the statute
• implicitly applying federal common law to determine ancillary proceeding standing without referencing the law of the state which it held established the claimant’s legal interest
• implicitly applying federal common law to determine ancillary proceeding standing without referencing the law of the state which it held established the claimant’s legal interest
• wife acquired title from defendant-husband; he represented himself as the owner and used the property as collateral for loans; proceeds from defen- dant’s unlawful activities went into wife’s account from which property-related expenses were paid; applying New York law
• decided under 18 U.S.C. § 1963(l)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).