The bad news for Manafort is for at least a certain portion of this case there is no double jeopardy defense at all.

Duncan Levin

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The forfeiture judgment they got is largely symbolic rather than something they could collect on, a lot of the assets are in the name of other people. It's hard to find them, and once you find them, it's hard to get the buy-in of the Mexican government.

The registration of the company itself could be something that the state could seize, all the proceeds could be taken away from( the company) by these laws that were meant to prevent a defendant from making money off their crimes.