[duskwuff]

Tangent: Does anyone know if it's standard practice for these sorts of arrangements to be made if other goods become part of forfeiture proceedings? (For instance, shares of a volatile mutual fund. Or, to take it out of the financial realm entirely, a truckload of perishable vegetables.)

[jnaglick]

I would guess that there has never been a case of a criminal investing their ill-gotten gains into "a truckload of perishable vegetables."

[GabrielF00]

While not really an analogue, there is the delightfully-named United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately...

[rsynnott]

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/garlic-man-begle...

Massive tax fraud case involving Secret Garlic; it happens :)

[einrealist]

If the prosecution loses the case, it can be held liable in a civil case to losses the defendant made. So this is just an agreement between both sides to lower that risk and which does change nothing related to the case (so the judge will agree too). I guess, if there are no objections (even from a third party), this makes totally sense for anything else, too.