Steven Kessler, a New York-based attorney and expert on asset forfeiture says that is not unusual.

“It’s now almost become something where you can’t arrest people because you know when they go to trial no one is going to convict them,” Kessler says. “So you say ‘OK, let’s make things miserable for them and take their property and cash and the like.’”

Steven Kessler, a lawyer for Janet Schaberg, said he was “cautiously optimistic” about the case’s ultimate outcome.

“The only issue before the 2nd Circuit was the validity of the injunction,” he said in an interview. “It is now up to the agencies to negate the presumption that the divorce agreement fairly and equitably distributed the marital assets.”

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