Free Status Report - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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DIANE J. HUMETEWA United States Attorney District of Arizona LISA ROBERTS Assistant U.S. Attorney Member of New York Bar Two Renaissance Square 40 North Central, Suite 1200 Phoenix, Arizona 85004-4408 Telephone: (602) 514-7500 [email protected]

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF ARIZONA United States of America, CIV-04-363-PHX-JWS Plaintiff, v. 1. Lear Jet, Model 31A, Serial Number 31A-224, U.S. Registration # N224LJ; Defendant. Plaintiff, United States of America, by and through its attorney, DIANE J.
STATUS REPORT

15 HUMETEWA, United States Attorney for the District of Arizona, and Lisa Roberts, Assistant 16 United States Attorney, of counsel, respectfully files this Status Report with regard to the 17 above action. Steps are being taken to expedite the transfer of the $4,057,686.63 in sale proceeds, 18 19 plus interest, into the Registry of the Court as the substitute res in this case. The parties have continued to discuss various settlement proposals. Although 20 21 negotiations are still ongoing, it appears that the parties are closer to a settlement. 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Respectfully submitted this 20th day of December, 2007. DIANE J. HUMETEWA United States Attorney District of Arizona S/Lisa Roberts LISA ROBERTS Assistant U.S. Attorney

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

2 I hereby certify that on December 20th , 2007, I electronically transmitted the attached document to the 3 Clerk's Office using the CM/ECF System for filing, and served the attached document by U.S. mail, on the
following:

4 5 Thomas Pinder
Trial Attorney

6 Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section 7 1400 New York Avenue, NW 8
Washington, DC 20005 US Department of Justice

United States Customs and Border Protection 10 Department of Homeland Security P.O. Box 52-2207 11 Miami, FL 33152-2207

9 Supervisory Special Agent Robert DelToro

12 Lawson Pedigo 13 8401 North Central Expressway, Suite 630 14
Dallas, Texas 75225 Miller, Keffer, & Pedigo

15 Douglas F. Behm

Jennings, Strouss & Salom, P.L.C. th 16 The Collier Center, 11 Floor 201 East Washington Street 17 Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2385

18 Geoffrey Young 19 150 2nd Avenue, Suite 1700 20
St. Petersburg, FL 33701 Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, P.A.

21 Cynthia Orr Goldstein, Goldstein and Hilley
th 22 29 Floor Tower Life Building

310 South St. Mary's Street

23 San Antonio, Texas 78205 24 25 26 S/Victoria Tiffany 27 28

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