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Appeals court hears challenge to long-frozen funds in impounded grand jury investigation
Summary
Appellant told the court the Attorney General has held seized funds for more than three years without charging crimes or returning money; the Commonwealth said intervention into a secret grand jury investigation is inappropriate and that forfeiture processes and statute of limitations limit relief.
The Appeals Court heard argument in an impounded matter in which counsel for an appellant asked the court to order return of funds that the Attorney General seized more than three years earlier during a grand jury investigation.
Michael Natola, representing the appellant, said the government has frozen the client’s property “three years, five months and 28 days” without charging him and without explaining when, if ever, a prosecution or forfeiture would be filed. Natola urged the court to recognize limits on how long the Commonwealth may…
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