She should have taken the plea deal. She wouldn’t have been able to afford to keep this property were it not for her illegal activities. Prosecutors offered to allow her to sell the house and keep most of the proceeds but she declined. She could have thrown all the proceeds into an investment account and let it grow for six years while she was in prison. She could have left prison with several hundred thousand and restarted her life.

Instead she’ll keep racking up attorney fees fighting this forfeiture and likely lose in the end anyway.