Thread: Obama is getting the smackdown today
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Old 09-28-2016, 05:37 PM  
kane
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Originally Posted by Coup View Post
I would assume that any US based assets that belong to the offending party would be subject to civil asset forfeiture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture
Makes sense. It seems to me like that could be big trouble for the US as a nation. If the Saudis lose a few cases and have assets seized to pay they might start thinking about pulling their assets out of the US and that could be ugly for our economy.
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