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United States General Accounting Office
        Washington, D.C. 20548

                            FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                            EXPECTED AT 1:00 p.m.
                            September 16, 1981


           STATEMENT OF

  WILLIAM J. ANDERSON, DIRECTOR

  GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION

            BEFORE THE

      SUBCOMMITTEE ON CRIME

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

          ON IMPROVING

      THE EFFECTIVENESS OF

  CRIMINAL FORFEITURE OF ASSETS


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Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We are pleased to have the opportunity to testify on the

Government's overall efforts to obtain the forfeiture of assets

obtained through criminal activities and, specifically, on bills

H.R. 2646, 2910, and 4110, designed to improve the forfeiture

statutes. Last spring we issued a report entitled Asset For-

feiture--A Seldom Used Tool in Combatting Drug Trafficking

(GGD-81-51, April 10, 1981). Our testimony today is, for the

most part, based upon that report.

     As the title of our report indicates, the Government's record

in attacking crime through the forfeiture of assets is not good.

And the Government's failure is not limited to drug trafficking.


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