You&#x27;re mixing things up here.<p>Certainly if she is convicted, then they can take her for everything. But she hasn&#x27;t been convicted yet, she&#x27;s just been charged. They&#x27;re not &#x27;rewarding&#x27; her for spending stolen money first, because in the case of a conviction they&#x27;re going to take her everything and throw her in jail to boot.<p>And it&#x27;s not necessarily true that assets, even monetary ones, are fungible and that you can spend from either pool at whim. My father has to separate his business and personal bank accounts for tax reasons. Criminals have to launder money, this was illustrated to hilarious effect in <i>Breaking Bad</i>. When you&#x27;re dealing with large amounts of money, people pay more attention.