Free Status Report - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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DANIEL G. KNAUSS 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, DANIEL G.
STATUS REPORT

15 KNAUSS, 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. All of the parties have agreed to the allocation of costs arising from the storage, 18 19 maintenance, repair, and sale of the captioned Lear Jet consistent with the directions set forth 20 in this Court's order of September 8, 2005. Steps are being taken to transfer the $4.4 million 21 in sales proceeds, minus $342,313.37 in storage and maintenance costs, plus interest, into the 22 Registry of the Court as the substitute res in this case. 23 Each of the parties has discussed settlement in a number of telephone calls and several 24 of the parties have met in person to discuss the same. It is unclear at this time whether a 25 26 // 27 28

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1 settlement will be reached but negotiations are still ongoing. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 S/Lisa Roberts LISA ROBERTS Assistant U.S. Attorney DANIEL G. KNAUSS United States Attorney District of Arizona Respectfully submitted this 28th day of September, 2007.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

2 I hereby certify that on September 28, 2007, I electronically transmitted the attached document to the Clerk's 3 Office using the CM/ECF System for filing, and served the attached document by U.S. mail, on the following: 4
MICHAEL E. DAVITT, Deputy Chief Criminal Division

5 Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section 6 U.S. Department of Justice 7 Washington, D.C. 20530
1400 New York Avenue, N.W.

Department of Homeland Security 10 P.O. Box 52-2207 Miami, FL 33152-2207

8 Supervisory Special Agent Robert DelToro 9 United States Customs and Border Protection

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Lawson Pedigo

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

14 Douglas F. Behm 15 Jennings, Strouss & Salom, P.L.C. th
The Collier Center, 11 Floor 16 201 East Washington Street Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2385

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Geoffrey Young

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

20 Cynthia Orr Goldstein 21 Goldstein,Tower Lifeand Hilley Building 29th Floor 22 310 South St. Mary's Street
San Antonio, Texas 78205

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S/Victoria Tiffany

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