ERISA doesn’t bar garnishment of 401(k) to satisfy restitution order – Virginia Lawyers Weekly

September 9, 2021

The court joined two other circuits in holding that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, doesn’t prevent the government from garnishing the retirement assets of a defendant in order to satisfy a criminal restitution order under the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996, or MVRA.
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