Two problems:  the asserts are only frozen in this case.  This is a fraud case, not a drug case, and they&#x27;ve not been subjected to civil asset forfeiture, so this doesn&#x27;t touch on that.<p>The other is that if they can never freeze the assets, someone can simply spend or transfer all of their money after stealing it.  If a thief has $5,000 and they steal $5,000, they can spend the stolen money and then claim the $5,000 they originally had is untouchable because they only spent stolen money.