Lynch laid out how the U.S. government was seeking to seize more than $1 billion in assets bought with proceeds stolen from 1MDB—the largest corruption case on record—from mansions in New York, Los Angeles, and London, to a stake in EMI, a private jet, and the future proceeds from The Wolf of Wall Street, to name just a few. For maximum publicity, the Justice Department filed its lawsuit—United States v. The Wolf of Wall Street—at the District Court for the Central District of California, where Hollywood is located.
