{"id":57634,"date":"2024-04-19T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57634"},"modified":"2024-04-19T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:53:09","slug":"s-d-n-y-overseas-seizure-of-russian-oligarchs-megayacht-not-governed-by-4a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57634","title":{"rendered":"S.D.N.Y.: Overseas seizure of Russian oligarch&#8217;s megayacht not governed by 4A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This megayacht was seized overseas for Russia sanctions. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensanctions.org\/entities\/Q4502077\/\">Eduard Yurievich Khudainatov<\/a> is the owner, and he\u2019s a Russian oligarch who is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/giacomotognini\/2022\/06\/13\/meet-the-russian-billionaire-whos-the-proxy-owner-of-vladimir-putin-500-million-yacht-eduard-khudainatov\/\">Putin prox<\/a>y (per Forbes)) The claim that the initial seizure may have violated the Fourth Amendment fails because it was seized extraterritorially in Fiji. United States v. M\/Y Amadea, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32845 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 22, 2024). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court credits the officer that there were three ways to check defendant\u2019s speed as he paced defendant: speedometer, GPS, PDA. The speeding justified the stop. United States v. Conner, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68031 (W.D. Tenn. Feb. 16, 2024).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was nexus shown on the totality of circumstances here. Individually, maybe not; collectively, yes. United States v. Lark, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66878 (W.D. Mich. Apr. 10, 2024).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This megayacht was seized overseas for Russia sanctions. (Eduard Yurievich Khudainatov is the owner, and he\u2019s a Russian oligarch who is a Putin proxy (per Forbes)) The claim that the initial seizure may have violated the Fourth Amendment fails because &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57634\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,72,38,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-searches","category-forfeiture","category-nexus","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57635,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57634\/revisions\/57635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}