U.S. v. France

Dist. Ct. did not err in finding that entirety of defendant’s disability insurance benefits generated from privately purchased disability insurance policy was subject to garnishment proceeding under Mandatory Victims Restitution Act to satisfy $800,000 restitution order entered in defendant’s criminal mail fraud case. Ct. rejected defendant’s claim that portion of said disability payments was exempt from garnishment and further rejected claim of defendant’s ex-wife, who had previously been awarded child support from said disability payments, that her interest in said payments was superior to government’s restitution lien in said payments.