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Future of Bob McDonnell's gifts still cloudy

The two gold Oscar de la Renta dresses. The Louis Vuitton shoes,replica van cleef small earrings, handbag and raincoat. The golf clubs, bags, shirts and shoes.

The Rolex.

These luxury gifts among the thousands of dollars in merchandise that onetime dietary supplement CEO Jonnie Williams purchased for former Gov. Bob McDonnell and first lady Maureen McDonnell and their children were the eye popping centerpieces of the evidence prosecutors used at trial to build a successful corruption case against the former first couple.

Bob McDonnell's sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 6,van cleef magic alhambra earrings replica; Maureen McDonnell's sentencing was rescheduled last week and will now be held Feb. 20. Lawyers for the couple have said they will appeal their convictions.

The sentencings and any future court proceeding could lead to the designer goods taking one more stroll down the legal runway in a courtroom.

A third party can also file a claim seeking the assets, which also must be adjudicated. Marshals take possession of the assets and can liquidate them at their discretion.

In a narcotics prosecution,van earrings replica, for example, any confiscated drugs are destroyed, while assets seized from the dealers cars, houses, jewelry are typically auctioned off.

Charles James, a former federal prosecutor and chief deputy Virginia attorney general, said the circumstances of a case sometimes put the government in the position of owning, albeit briefly, some oddball assets.

He recalled a prosecution of a drug ring in Richmond roughly 10 years ago in which the government ended up briefly assuming ownership of two motels that had been used as drug distribution centers.

"When a defendant's assets aren't liquid, the Marshals Service has to dispose of them, and at times that means everything from running a hotel to owning a ranch to auctioning artwork and luxury cars," James said. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia declined to comment on the gifts and their forfeiture, or potential use or sale going forward. The office even refused to say where the items in question are being stored.

Page 42 of the McDonnells' Jan. 21 federal indictment provides a lengthy list of the items prosecutors contend are subject to forfeiture.

They include three pairs of designer shoes, five dresses, five golf shirts, three golf bags, two sets of golf clubs, assorted jackets,replica van cleef arpels earrings alhambra, coats and sweaters, one silver Rolex watch engraved "71st Governor of Virginia," and 30 boxes of Anatabloc the dietary supplement Williams was trying to influence the McDonnells to promote.

But a number of the items listed in the indictment were, in fact, returned to Williams well before the couple were charged.

In March 2013, Maureen McDonnell returned a box of Williams' gifts to his home shortly after her interview with state police. The box included the dress the former first lady had worn to her daughter's 2011 wedding at the Executive Mansion and another dress she wore to commemorate her 35th wedding anniversary.

And in August 2013, Bob McDonnell and representatives of his legal team said that the former governor had returned to Williams the "tangible" gifts that were still in the governor's possession, including the $6,500 engraved Rolex watch. "As a result Jonnie Williams could be rightfully viewed as the owner of the dress, the watch and other gifts, and the government could be compelled to return the evidence to Williams as the rightful owner, leaving him to decide how best to dispose of them."

So what does a former dietary supplement salesman do with an Oscar De la Renta dress? Or a pair of black Rebecca Minkoff shoes? Or a Rolex inscribed "71st Governor of Virginia?"

Williams could not be reached for comment and his lawyer, former Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, declined to comment.

But during the trial last August, Williams said he had no practical use for the dresses that Maureen McDonnell had returned to him part of an attempt by the first lady, prosecutors successfully argued to obstruct justice by making it look like the garments had been loans, not gifts.

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