FSA Senior Law Clerks at Forfeiture Support Associates, LLC
If your money is seized by a federal agent, an attorney can help you immediately file a claim for court action to bypass the administrative proceedings. Those administrative proceedings include making an offer in compromise or filing a petition for remission or mitigation for the seizing agency can decide what happens to your property.
To avoid letting the seizing agency decide what happens to your property after a seizure, you must file a verified claim for court action. The rules make it difficult for most people to do that correctly because they might not list all the appropriate information in the claim, verify it properly, or serve it to the right place.
Also, it must be RECEIVED by the appropriate federal employee within the deadline, or it will be DENIED as untimely.
Because the rules are so strict, an experienced civil asset forfeiture attorney can make sure the verified claim is complete and served properly.
The filing of the claim for court action triggers a 90-day deadline for the federal agency that received the claim to send the claim and the civil judicial forfeiture referral to the Asset Forfeiture Unit of the United States Attorney’s Office for the appropriate division of the District court.
After filing the claim, you might receive correspondence from an FSA Senior Law Clerk who might ask:
“Are you amenable to a CAFRA extension to see if the case can be resolved in advance of filing a complaint?”
The civil asset forfeiture attorneys at Sammis Law Firm in Tampa, FL, rarely agree to an extension of the 90 day CAFRA deadline because it rarely works in the client’s best interest.
For more information, call 813-250-0500.
What does FSA Senior Law Clerk do?
The FSA Senior Law Clerk is a government contractor employed by Forfeiture Support Associates, LLC (also known as “FSA Federal”). These employees are assigned to various U.S. Attorney’s Offices across the country.
The FSA Senior Law Clerk is not authorized to provide legal advice on behalf of the United States Attorney’s Office.
To the extent the FSA senior law clerk provides correspondence to the claimant or their attorney, the content of any correspondence should not be considered legal advice from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The attorneys at Sammis Law Firm work with FSA Senior Law Clerks at Forfeiture Support Associates, LLC, on these types of cases throughout the United States.
Is Forfeiture Support Associates, LLC (“FSA Federal”) a government agency?
No, Forfeiture Support Associates, LLC, is not a government agency. FSA is a private government contractor structured as a joint venture owned by SAIC and Amentum.
FSA Federal embeds its personnel across more than sixteen (16) federal law enforcement agencies and homeland security components, across 480 government sites throughout the country Those FSA employees provides legal, investigative, and administrative support services to federal agencies, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), United States Attorney’s Offices (across nearly all 94 U.S. districts), U.S. Marshals Service, ATF, FBI, DEA, and the Department of Homeland Security.
In addition to the FSA Senior Law Clerks, FSA federal hires employees for more than 30 labor categories, including:
- Data Analysts
- Civil Rights Investigators
- Paralegals
- CPAs
- Financial Investigators
Additional Resources
Official Website for Forfeiture Support Associates (FSA) – The official website for Forfeiture Support Associates, LLC (FSA) lists the address of the business as 20110 Ashbrook Place, Suite 220, Ashburn, VA 20147. According to the “about us” page, FSA is a joint venture owned by Amentum, with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) acting as the managing partner. The Board of Directors includes representatives from Amentum and SAIC. FSA employees are involved in complex financial investigations.
This article was last updated on Friday, September 25, 2026.