The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York issued a statement on September 14, local time, stating that Deputy Attorney Sean S. Buckley and FBI New York office chief James C. Barnacle Jr. announced that they have filed a civil f

2026-09-15

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York issued a statement on September 14, local time, stating that Deputy Attorney Sean S. Buckley and FBI New York office chief James C. Barnacle Jr. announced that they have filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit seeking to seize approximately $61 million in cryptocurrency. The lawsuit alleges that these funds originated from the black market sale of sanctioned Iranian crude oil and petroleum products and were used to fund the Iranian government and Iranian military entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).