John Oliver did a great job explaining the problem this week on his show. Basically, Kane and Nestor might be innocent, but their money is on trial separately, as dumb as that sounds.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._$124,700_in_U....
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(u'The Booming Business of Civil Forfeitures',) - The Wire[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Article_Consis...