• After Lazarenko was convicted, Kiritchenko sought restitution under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act. (courthousenews.com)
  • According to the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) passed by Congress in 1996, crime victims who suffer identifiable monetary losses are entitled to "full and timely restitution. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • A Critical Assessment of the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996," noted that while "the MVRA may have led to marginally more compensation for victims of crime, it has decreased victim satisfaction with restitution. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • PHOENIX - A state agency in 2022 assisted Arizona consumers in obtaining over $10 million in restitution. (ktar.com)
  • Sixth Circuit Announces District Court Has Power to Waive Interest on Restitution Post-Sentencing, Resulting in Circuit Split , Jan. 15, 2022. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • In June 2010, the first and largest batch of heirless books (8,363 individual volumes) was handed over to the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, in accordance with the terms of the Art Restitution Act, and then, under subsequent legislation, repurchased at a market price set by an independent expert. (onb.ac.at)
  • In 2006, the Jewish community in Vienna and the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism set up a » database of heirless objects for restitution. (onb.ac.at)
  • In determining whether restitution should be joint and several or equally divided, the court shall consider the interest and circumstances of the victim or victims, the circumstances of the respondents, and the interest of justice. (wa.gov)
  • 2) Regardless of the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the court shall order restitution in all cases where the victim is entitled to benefits under the crime victims' compensation act, chapter 7.68 RCW. (wa.gov)
  • If the court does not order restitution and the victim of the crime has been determined to be entitled to benefits under the crime victims' compensation act, the department of labor and industries, as administrator of the crime victims' compensation program, may petition the court within one year of entry of the disposition order for entry of a restitution order. (wa.gov)
  • 3) If an order includes restitution as one of the monetary assessments, the county clerk shall make disbursements to victims named in the order. (wa.gov)
  • The restitution to victims named in the order shall be paid prior to any payment for other penalties or monetary assessments. (wa.gov)
  • The county clerk shall make restitution disbursements to victims prior to payments to any insurance provider under Title 48 RCW. (wa.gov)
  • While the gathering constitutes an achievement in itself, Jewish officials say the success of the conference ultimately will be measured by its ability to further the process of attaining moral restitution for victims of the Holocaust - specifically, an acknowledgment of all the facts, the wrongdoing and the collective responsibility to find the truth. (jweekly.com)
  • Since the MVRA was enacted, the amount of outstanding federal restitution debt owed to victims nationwide has ballooned from $3.7 billion to more than $44.4 billion in 2008, the most recent year for which statistics are available. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Prosecutors have argued, however, that even if defendants are financially well off and have the means to pay restitution, there is little chance of recovering money for their victims unless their assets are seized before charges are filed. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • The bottom line is that government officials fritter away whatever restitution money is collected rather than using it to repay crime victims. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • In fiscal year 2008, the 94 U.S. Attorneys offices had a collective total of $1.1 billion in asset forfeiture deposits, of which less than 40 percent - $429.4 million - went to crime victims for restitution. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Further, the article found that "mandatory restitution impedes offenders' reintegration into society," and concluded "the MVRA is often an inefficient and impractical method of recompensing victims" that is "detrimental to both victims and offenders. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • The victims due restitution, according to prosecutors, are Legacy Bank, Enterprise Bank and First Federal Bank. (arkansasbusiness.com)
  • Oregon's juvenile delinquency statute calls for restitution that equals the full amount of the victims' injury, loss or damage as determined by the court. (kpbs.org)
  • Two key time periods in this regard are the postwar era and the mid-1990s to the present, when there was a resurgence of interest in asset restitution. (jcpa.org)
  • on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (formed in 1952), together demanded reparations, restitution, and compensation, the latter, as the representative of the Jews in the Diaspora, advanced sums from funds which it received from the German government and took over financial responsibility for the URO. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • This year's TrendsWatch report included a short piece about recent shifts in museum practice with regard to voluntary repatriation, restitution, and reparations. (aam-us.org)
  • California reparations … remission or restitution? (atlantatribune.com)
  • I am on probation and have to pay restitution. (expertlaw.com)
  • Michael Sturms, 78, of Bluffton, was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay almost $3.1 million in restitution to the IRS, according to a Tuesday news release . (yahoo.com)
  • And after 10 years, if the boy successfully completes probation, doesn't commit additional offense and complies with the payment plans, the court can grant full or partial satisfaction of the restitution judgment. (kpbs.org)
  • Can I request jail time or community service instead of paying probation restitution. (freeadvice.com)
  • Home » Ask a Lawyer » Can I request jail time or community service instead of paying probation restitution. (freeadvice.com)
  • According to one GAO report, federal prosecutors use most forfeited assets - which are intended for restitution payments - for other purposes such as providing funds to local and state law enforcement agencies that aid them in prosecutions. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Federal prosecutors want Barber to pay $16.2 million in restitution, but the former northwest Arkansas real estate developer says he should only have to pay $550,000. (arkansasbusiness.com)
  • His defense attorney later asked prosecutors to drop the criminal charges in exchange for paying restitution. (inquirer.com)
  • The boy's attorney, Jack Morris, had argued that the amount the prosecutors requested for restitution was cruel and unusual punishment. (kpbs.org)
  • UNITED RESTITUTION ORGANIZATION (URO) , legal aid society for claimants outside Germany for restitution and compensation. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The United Restitution Organization was founded in 1948 as a legal aid society, to help claimants of limited means, living outside Germany, to recover both in restitution and compensation what was due to them. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • A central office was opened in Frankfurt, and Benjamin Ferencz, an American lawyer and former head of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization, became the first director general, succeeded in 1955 by Kurt May, a German lawyer. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • But Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Restitution Organization, who called for billions of dollars in restitution, made it clear that compensation wasn't simply a matter of money. (jweekly.com)
  • Thanks to this training, I now have a good understanding of how to report SEAH allegations at inter-agency level, and within WHO, and am fully committed to making restitution within my organization, and to supporting women and children through information, education and communication," Maiga adds. (who.int)
  • The court must on either the judgment and sentence or on a subsequent order to pay, designate the total amount of a legal financial obligation and segregate this amount among the separate assessments made for restitution, costs, fines, and other assessments required by law. (wa.gov)
  • The judgment and sentence shall identify the party or entity to whom restitution is owed so that the state, party, or entity may enforce the judgment. (wa.gov)
  • Prior to the expiration of the ten-year period, the juvenile court may extend the judgment for the payment of restitution for an additional ten years. (wa.gov)
  • In addition to trying to process questions of restitution as quickly as possible, in accordance with the 1998 Art Restitution Act, the Austrian National Library today also strives for maximum transparency in relation to its Nazi past. (onb.ac.at)
  • In addition, restitution may be ordered for loss or damage if the offender pleads guilty to a lesser offense or fewer offenses and agrees with the prosecutor's recommendation that the offender be required to pay restitution to a victim of an offense or offenses which, pursuant to a plea agreement, are not prosecuted. (wa.gov)
  • As part of the plea agreement, Barber was ordered to pay restitution, which the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas said should be $16.2 million. (arkansasbusiness.com)
  • The 1998 Federal Law on the Restitution of Works of Art (Federal Law Gazette I, 181/1998) constituted a long overdue legal basis for the process. (onb.ac.at)
  • In December 2003, after careful checking of all its relevant holdings, the Austrian National Library completed its Provenance Report in accordance with the Art Restitution Act 1998 and handed it over to the Commission for Provenance Research. (onb.ac.at)
  • This claim was lodged before the December 31, 1998, cut-off date and complied with the provisions of the Restitution of Land Right Act, 1994. (iol.co.za)
  • The government's policy on restitution so far has been simply to hold on to everything, as the current law defines these objects as compensation for the Soviet Union's wartime losses rather than as spoils of victory. (rferl.org)
  • On Sunday, De Lille said her department's work to release state-owned land across provinces was already in full swing in line with the government's commitment to land restitution, redistribution and tenure. (iol.co.za)
  • After considering all legal options, Arslan's family agreed to pardon the defendants and receive the monetary restitution," the report said. (wnd.com)
  • If the court determines that a juvenile has insufficient funds to pay and upon agreement of the victim, the court may order performance of a number of hours of community restitution in lieu of monetary penalty, at the rate of the then state minimum wage per hour. (wa.gov)
  • Restitution collected through civil enforcement must be paid through the registry of the court and must be distributed proportionately according to each victim's loss when there is more than one victim. (wa.gov)
  • b) If restitution is ordered pursuant to RCW 9.94A.750 (6) or 9.94A.753 (6) to a victim of rape of a child or a victim's child born from the rape, the Washington state child support registry shall be identified as the party to whom payments must be made. (wa.gov)
  • Restitution obligations arising from the rape of a child in the first, second, or third degree that result in the pregnancy of the victim may be enforced for the time periods provided under RCW 9.94A.750 (6) and 9.94A.753 (6). (wa.gov)
  • For this reason, under restitution (diyat) and an eye-for-an-eye or equal punishment (qisas) laws, the victim or his legal heirs can pardon an otherwise guilty aggressor with or without compensation," the report said. (wnd.com)
  • The court shall allow the victim to determine the nature of the community restitution to be completed when it is practicable and appropriate to do so. (wa.gov)
  • For the purposes of this section, the respondent shall remain under the court's jurisdiction for a maximum term of ten years after the respondent's eighteenth birthday and, during this period, the restitution portion of the dispositional order may be modified as to amount, terms, and conditions at any time. (wa.gov)
  • e) Nothing in this section shall prevent a respondent from petitioning the court pursuant to RCW 13.50.260 if the respondent has paid the full restitution amount stated in the court's order and has met the statutory criteria. (wa.gov)
  • The "BOP's authority to administer the IFRP is independent of the sentencing court's duty to schedule restitution payments," the court held. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • You bring a restitution claim to recover gains that another party has obtained. (reason.com)
  • The 9th Circuit explained that, "as a general rule, a participant in a crime cannot recover restitution," even if Lazarenko extorted him. (courthousenews.com)
  • We hold that, as a general rule, a participant in a crime cannot recover restitution," Judge Susan Graber wrote for the San Francisco-based panel. (courthousenews.com)
  • Due to illness I was not working and made partial restitution payments for two months. (expertlaw.com)
  • g) At any time, the court may determine that the respondent is not required to pay, or may relieve the respondent of the requirement to pay, full or partial restitution to any insurance provider authorized under Title 48 RCW if the respondent reasonably satisfies the court that he or she does not have the means to make full or partial restitution to the insurance provider. (wa.gov)
  • 2 Within the scope of the Restitution, producing companies engaged in the exportation of goods manufactured in the country shall be able to determine the value for purposes of partial or total reimbursement of the federal tax residue existing in the production chain. (bvsalud.org)
  • 2 The coherent modern development of the principles of restitution and unjust enrichment in Australia, as in England, has taken place only in the last 30 to 40 years. (fedcourt.gov.au)
  • 4 Any thorough-going history of restitution must first begin with Roman law [2] which recognised unjust enrichment as a foundation for obligations alongside contract and delict. (fedcourt.gov.au)
  • CN) - Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko won reversal of a $19 million restitution award he was ordered to pay to his co-conspirator in a money-laundering scheme. (courthousenews.com)
  • A federal judge ordered Lazarenko to pay $19 million in restitution, but the 9th Circuit reversed. (courthousenews.com)
  • Pu pled guilty to unlawful possession of a trade secret, received a 36-month prison sentence, and was ordered to pay over $750,000 in restitution based on a finding that he intended to cause his employers a loss of $12 million. (courthousenews.com)
  • Sturms is currently unable to pay the $3 million in restitution fees, but is "eager" to negotiate a final settlement with the IRS, according to sentencing documents. (yahoo.com)
  • In 2006, the Latvian parliament blocked a bill proposing $55 million in restitution for property that once belonged to institutions of Latvia's Jewish community. (jta.org)
  • A case in point is a January 2005 study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) that followed five white collar criminals who owed a combined $568 million in restitution. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Brandon Barber, the high-profile northwest Arkansas developer, said in court papers Friday that his restitution should only be $550,000 - not the $16.2 million the U.S. Attorney's office has calculated. (arkansasbusiness.com)
  • The teenager who threw fireworks into a canyon last year, starting a fire in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge that burned nearly 47,000 acres, has been ordered to pay $36.6 million in restitution - although the judge acknowledges that the boy won't be able to pay it in full. (kpbs.org)
  • From January to July of this year, the Rose Foundation distributed 1.6 million in cy pres and restitution funds. (rosefdn.org)
  • 1)(a) In its dispositional order, the court shall require the respondent to make restitution to any persons who have suffered loss or damage as a result of the offense committed by the respondent. (wa.gov)
  • b) Restitution may include the costs of counseling reasonably related to the offense. (wa.gov)
  • But Oregon Circuit Court Judge John Olson wrote in his opinion that the "restitution is clearly proportionate to the offense because it does not exceed the financial damages caused by the youth. (kpbs.org)
  • c) The payment of restitution shall be in addition to any punishment which is imposed pursuant to the other provisions of this chapter. (wa.gov)
  • The new top leadership team of the embattled World Jewish Congress will head to Eastern Europe soon to re-energize stalled negotiations over Holocaust-era restitution payments, Michael Schneider, the group's next secretary general, said this week. (jta.org)
  • BRUSSELS (JTA) - Latvian Justice Minister Gaidis Berzins has resigned in protest of plans to offer restitution for Jewish property seized after the Holocaust. (jta.org)
  • In other restitution cases, claims by heirs to property taken from or sold by relatives under duress during World War II sometimes have led to conflicts. (liveauctioneers.com)
  • It took only a week for the defendants to suggest "a payment of approximately $30,000 as restitution to Arslan's family in exchange for a pardon. (wnd.com)
  • Critics - mainly House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. and the criminal defense bar - had argued that the legislation would unfairly harm potential defendants and would not significantly increase the collection of restitution. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Ilja Lenskis, director of the Jews in Latvia Museum, said restitution was a "painful and harsh issue" in the public discourse in Latvia. (jta.org)
  • RCW 9.94A.760: Legal financial obligations-Restitution obligations. (wa.gov)
  • Legal financial obligations - Restitution obligations. (wa.gov)
  • With new revelations coming to the fore regarding Switzerland's role in seizing and failing to restore Holocaust-era assets, a worldwide process of assigning responsibility and pursuing restitution has begun. (jewishpublicaffairs.org)
  • Restitution can also instill true moral guilt in a person, which can lead to genuine repentance and a decision by the perpetrator to make different choices leading to a better life. (chicagotribune.com)
  • This is about justice and the quest not only for material restitution but moral restitution as well. (jweekly.com)
  • Olson also pointed to "safety valves" within the statute, "which serve to ensure that the restitution statute as applied in any particular case, even one as extreme as this one, does not 'shock the moral sense of reasonable people. (kpbs.org)
  • Mark Young, a federal prisoner, filed a motion with his sentencing judge asking that a schedule of restitution payments be set. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Even the highly publicized resurgence of restitution efforts since the mid-1990s resulted in the return of only 3 percent of Holocaust property. (jcpa.org)
  • He added that Roskhrankultura will submit the necessary legislation to the State Duma, as existing legislation requires a separate legal act for each case of restitution. (rferl.org)
  • By the end of 1965 the filing deadlines under the principal restitution and compensation laws expired. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • One problem, critics say, is that the MVRA requires judges to order restitution for the full amount of a victim's losses regardless of the defendant's ability to pay. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • OPB notes that the repayment in this case is far higher than judges have ordered in similar situations elsewhere: "In California, for example, a 13-year-old girl responsible for starting the 2014 Cocos Fire, which destroyed 36 homes, was ordered to pay $40,000 in restitution for the blaze. (kpbs.org)
  • Restitution is an Old Testament concept instituted to remind people that when one harms another person, or steals or destroys property, someone else suffers and deserves reimbursement. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Havok has a per-prim property called 'restitution' whose range is [0,1]. (secondlife.com)
  • What examples from the scriptures can you think of that show how individuals made restitution for their sins? (churchofjesuschrist.org)
  • The restitution was made possible following the SC's civil suit in November 2007 against Powerhouse and its Singaporean executive director and shareholder Tan Kok Kheng. (sc.com.my)
  • There is a large amount of work to do before we'll be ready to provide more liberal restitution settings. (secondlife.com)
  • d) The court may determine the amount, terms, and conditions of the restitution including a payment plan extending up to ten years if the court determines that the respondent does not have the means to make full restitution over a shorter period. (wa.gov)
  • A US court has sentenced Nigerian, Shalom Olumide Ayotunde to 46 months in jail and ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $1,067,000 (N439,113,180). (punchng.com)
  • Hutchinson said that if Barber is slapped with the total amount of restitution that the government is seeking, the banks shouldn't be entitled to any additional amount than the civil judgments. (arkansasbusiness.com)
  • Offenders who are sentenced to prison for financial fraud are typically ordered to pay $100 a month in restitution when they are released. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Yesterday's restitution payment officially settles Powell's debt in connection with the theft and fraud case. (inquirer.com)
  • If DOJ prosecutes you for fraud or false statements, you may be sentenced to prison and required to pay full restitution. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition to whatever legal penalties might result, restitution and shaming should be part of the punishment. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Failing to agree on a uniform law, separate Ordinances on Restitution in each of the occupied zones were enacted, initially by the Americans (1948), and followed two years later by the English and French. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Despite extensive restitution that took place in the immediate post-war years, significant parts of these looted collections remained in the library. (onb.ac.at)
  • A Bluffton man was ordered to pay millions in restitution after pleading guilty to years of tax evasion, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. (yahoo.com)
  • Restitution Press has been wheatpasting in LA and other cities for years, and now it looks like two of their images have one of their images has been stolen and combined with an image by Euthanasia for use in a tshirt by OBEY Clothing . (vandalog.com)
  • Moreover, 88 percent of the restitution money paid out in 2008 came from a single U.S. Attorneys office in upstate New York, while 55 U.S. Attorneys offices did not apply any of their forfeited asset funds to restitution. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • But Powell never paid the restitution. (inquirer.com)
  • Restitution paid through the Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) Inmate Financial Responsibility Program (IRFP) is not subject to judicial scrutiny, U.S. District Judge Rodger C. Hunt held December 11, 2007. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • but if the payment was his idea, so that it might be described as extortion, your restitution claim is likely a good one. (reason.com)
  • f) If the respondent participated in the crime with another person or other persons, the court may either order joint and several restitution or may divide restitution equally among the respondents. (wa.gov)
  • Upon receipt of a petition from the department of labor and industries, the court shall hold a restitution hearing and shall enter a restitution order. (wa.gov)
  • 5) A respondent under obligation to pay restitution may petition the court for modification of the restitution order for good cause shown, including inability to pay. (wa.gov)
  • Powell was scheduled to appear this morning in Northumberland County Court at a contempt hearing for failing to pay restitution. (inquirer.com)
  • In court last week, Morris had said that the slightly higher restitution figure was "absurd" and "absolutely silly," according to The Oregonian . (kpbs.org)
  • Berlin's Free University, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the German Lost Art Foundation and several art museums are contributing to the restitution project by sharing research expertise. (liveauctioneers.com)
  • But in fact they all are cases where your best bet is a restitution claim. (reason.com)
  • Students only hear about restitution as the name of an occasional remedy in contract cases. (reason.com)
  • However, on 16 June, Duma Culture Committee Chairman Iosef Kobson (Unified Russia) told journalists that his committee had approved a bill on Russia's first act of restitution, involving a collection of 16th-century manuscripts belonging to Hungary's Sarospatak Reformed College. (rferl.org)
  • The earliest possible restitution of this material to its legal owners is therefore not only a legal obligation on the Austrian National Library but also a question of morality. (onb.ac.at)
  • State and federal courts have appointed the Rose Foundation as trustee for over 600 cy pres and restitution funds owing to our deep ties to community and environmental resliency organizations. (rosefdn.org)
  • 1 A Special Tax Restitution Regime for Exporting Companies (Restitution) is hereby instituted, for the purpose of refunding amounts associated with residual federal tax costs existing in their production chains. (bvsalud.org)
  • Young complained that he was being forced to pay $50 a month from his prison earnings through the IRFP toward his restitution. (prisonlegalnews.org)
  • Berzins' party believes that offering restitution would place the interests of one minority group over others. (jta.org)
  • Soon after regaining their independence, all occupied countries put in place restitution regulations. (jcpa.org)
  • The allowed restitution of the various materials in SL are kept low for stability purposes. (secondlife.com)
  • De Lille said she had already signed off numerous requests for releasing land under the custodianship of her department for human settlements and restitution purposes over the past 10 months. (iol.co.za)
  • RCW 13.40.190: Disposition order-Restitution for loss or damage-Modification of restitution order. (wa.gov)
  • Disposition order - Restitution for loss or damage - Modification of restitution order. (wa.gov)
  • We cannot give in to claims for restitution like those presented to the English for the Parthenon marbles or the Benin bronzes. (modernghana.com)
  • An offender being indigent as defined in RCW 10.01.160 (3) is not grounds for failing to impose restitution, subject to RCW 9.94A.750 (3) and 9.94A.753 (3). (wa.gov)
  • Last year he wrote to the head of Restitution Press complimenting him on their work. (vandalog.com)