Feds want to garnish prison commissary cash from two NYC sex criminals to pay back victims

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Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are looking to seize thousands of dollars in prison commissary funds from two sex criminals — making the request just as a top Justice Department official urged government attorneys to be more aggressive in collecting restitution from inmates.
In court filings last week, Brooklyn U.S.
Attorney Breon Peace’s office asked to take $4,500 from the commissary account of a Queens man who lured an Australian teen to the U.S. for sex, and more than $11,000 from a Staten Island warehouse manager convicted of child pornography charges.
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace speaks during a press conference at the U.S.