Court has granted the govt's motion for forfeiture on those four accounts of Matt's, nobody having made a claim against them during the notice period.
Total amount snatched by the US: ~$270K.
Remaining amount still owed by Matt: ~$4.5M
In contrast, the govt last week asked for & was granted a similar money judgement against Marc Riviello, but for just $107K.
Math: Govt says MR "conducted financial transactions involving $253K which represented a proportion of the fraudulent proceeds"; $146K recovered in the original non-Lambo incident; leaving $107K.
A rather striking difference in treatment. The two admitted to different levels of involvement in the collection of scams, of course, but nevertheless it seems fair to guess that the prosecution hates Matt a whole bunch & MR hardly at all.
Riviello due for sentencing on Aug 11th. A couple of sealed motions filed by govt in lead up. My guess: minimal time, if any.
Joey M probably would have been up for sentencing around now, also, except of course the govt withdrew the charges - IMO almost certainly because Matt was the main witness & he screwed up the case, probably by trying to dump all the blame on Joey. Hence govt's attitude towards him.
