You know the real estate market has gotten insanely hot when the federal government starts seizing $4 million mansions for itself:
The Department of Justice, pursuant to a court-ordered default judgment and final order of forfeiture entered on May 24, has secured the forfeiture of a Potomac, Maryland, property acquired with approximately $3.5 million in alleged corruption proceeds by the former President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia, through a trust set up by his wife, Zineb Jammeh.
I tell you, find yourself a wife who looks at you the same way that Zineb Jammeh looks at her husband while dropping $3.5 millos in stolen cash on a Capital Region McMansion.
The whole thing is pretty cuckoo:
The judgment is the result of a civil forfeiture complaint filed by the United States in July 2020 seeking the forfeiture of the Maryland property. As alleged in the complaint, Yahya Jammeh corruptly obtained millions of dollars through the misappropriation of stolen public funds and the solicitation of bribes from businesses seeking to obtain monopoly rights over various sectors of the Gambian economy. Jammeh conspired with his family members and close associates to utilize a host of shell companies and overseas trusts to launder his alleged corrupt proceeds throughout the world, including through the purchase of a multimillion-dollar mansion in Potomac, Maryland. With this entry of final judgment, ownership of that Maryland property has now been forfeited to the United States along with all rental income generated by the property since the filing of the amended complaint in August 2020. The United States intends to sell the property, and recommend to the Attorney General that the net proceeds from the sale of the forfeited property be used to benefit the people of The Gambia harmed by former President Jammeh's acts of corruption and abuse of office.
Well, they're gonna return the money to the Gambia. That's actually pretty nice.
In any event, the mansion itself is a reeaaal humdinger:
A movie theater...a pool house...a massive island in the kitchen...what a doozy!
Unfortunately Mr. Jammeh is currently enjoying an indefinite exile in Equatorial Guinea so he won't have the chance to retrieve his things before they're donated to Goodwill!
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