Subject: [REMINDER] RE: Forfeiture Funding Requests for Next Year¶
Reminder to please send me your unit requests today. Thanks to all who have already sent theirs.¶
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Subject: Forfeiture Funding Requests for Next Year¶
Chiefs,¶
As discussed yesterday at the Crim unit chiefs meeting, each year we obtain a substantial amount of funding for case expenses from forfeiture funds allocated by EOUSA. I will be compiling the Office’s requests for such funding for FY20 (September ’20 to September ’21), which are due to EOUSA on April 12.¶
Below is a description of the types of expenses covered, and attached are (1) requests submitted by all your units for last year as a starting point; and (2) a spreadsheet of all the requests by unit to make it easier to pull yours out; and (3) the FY20 Template Form to fill out for each case. Please complete (or have your AUSAs complete) the Form for each case where there could be significant expenses, and email them to me and Andrew by the end of next Monday, April 8. If you have line AUSAs fill the forms out, please gather them all together to send us in one batch, and make sure they do NOT send them direct to EOUSA via the email listed on the form.¶
We can request funds to cover all manner of non-routine expenses, such as:¶
(1) Outside vendors for financial analysis/tracing, document review and discovery support, forensic analysis, etc.¶
(2) Expert consultants (but NOT expert witnesses for actual testimony, which comes from a different fund)¶
(3) Data- or document-hosting¶
(4) Large translation expenses¶
(5) Foreign travel¶
This is not an exhaustive list and we have been able to use this funding for a wide variety of expenses in the past, so you should consider anything you think may be helpful to an investigation. Any questions, just let us know.¶
Thanks!¶
United States Attorney’s Office¶
Southern District of New York¶
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