[20180605]LSB10071_受害者赔偿：内部调查律师费？.pdf

CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Victim Restitution: Attorneys Fees for Internal Investigations? Updated June 5, 2018 UPDATE, 6/5/2018: On May 29, 2018, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act does not authorize restitution to cover the costs of a victims private investigation conducted before the governments investigation and prosecution of the defendant. The original post from February 6, 2018, is below. Does a statute that requires victim reimbursement for “other expenses incurred during participation in the investigation or prosecution of the victimizing offense” cover “costs that were neither required nor requested by the government, including costs incurred for the victims own purposes and unprompted by any official action?” That is the question that has bedeviled the lower federal courts and that the Supreme Court has agreed to consider in a case styled Lagos v. United States. The case began when Lagos executed a scheme that involved inflating the value of his companys assets in order to maintain and increase a line of credit with General Electric Capital Corporation (GECC). GECC s