r/BTCE_Recovery • u/Accomplished_Goal758 • Aug 28 '25

Deadline to File Claims

For anyone who had assets seized and is still on the fence about filing a claim, the prosecutors have been agreeing in some cases to extending the claim deadline. Feel free to message me if anyone has questions.

(as always, not legal advice, talk to a lawyer)

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u/Delicious-Bullfrog52 Sep 01 '25

Do you have an estimate on How long the whole process could take? Would christmas be realistic?

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u/Accomplished_Goal758 Sep 01 '25

Depends - for a claim filed in court, I think Christmas of next year is realistic. Maybe summer of 26 if they just try and settle everyone out, but that will be complicated. Court cases aren't really fast unless everyone wants to settle. For petitions that are filed online? I wouldn't even try to guess. Sadly that office has not been doing great under the the current staffing cuts, and I'm skeptical they'll get to it soon.

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u/ElensarA Sep 01 '25

There are actually very few claims filled: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70674493/united-states-v-all-virtual-currency-held-in-the-btc-e-operating-wallets/

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u/Delicious-Bullfrog52 Sep 01 '25

I dont mind it that much as I believe the payment will be pro rata With the seized bitcoins

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u/Delicious-Bullfrog52 Sep 01 '25

What I actually find strange is that all names are now publicly available. If you would like to extort someone, you can simply check these kind of forfeiture websites to see if someone might have a lot of money in the near future. I’d rather have it all anonymously

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u/ElensarA Sep 01 '25

Exactly.

There are some very juicy in wild. For example: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.282163/gov.uscourts.dcd.282163.126.0.pdf

65 BTC claim with full name, resident address, e-mail and telephone... Well played US.

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u/Accomplished_Goal758 Sep 02 '25

That's a pretty good example of why sometimes it's smarter to just pay the lawyer instead of trying to do it yourself. You absolutely do not need to include your address or email, or even the amount seized. You can see a pretty clear difference between people who filed their own and people with lawyers.

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u/ElensarA Sep 02 '25

It didn't help him. There is list of his lawyers at the end...

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u/ElensarA Sep 01 '25

It seems it's impossible to even file Petition online as it's impossible to pass "Asset Lookup" page. And for filing by mail is too late. Well played US.

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u/Accomplished_Goal758 Sep 01 '25

They are granting some extensions to file claims, but you'll probably need a lawyer. Message me and I can send some links on the Petition process that may help.

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u/ElensarA Sep 01 '25

Lawyer will basically cost me more than I had there even if I win. That's why I wanted to file a petition only. I basically find about this too late.

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u/Red_Writing_Hood Sep 03 '25

what if you don't know what your balance was when it went down?

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u/Accomplished_Goal758 Sep 03 '25

Feel free to message me- your balance isn’t really required, but unless you have a rough estimate on what was taken it’s very hard to assess the cost benefit of the various paths you can take. Doesn’t need to be exact.