BD. OF GOVERNORS FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM v. PHARAON

Docket Nos. 98-6101(L), 98-6121(CON).

169 F.3d 110 (1999)

BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEERAL RESERVE SYSTEM, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. Ghaith R. PHARAON, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, Alanwood Anstalt, as Trustee of the Brookpark Trust, and on behalf of the named beneficiaries of the Brookpark Trust, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided February 24, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Baxter, Jr., New York, N.Y. (Shari D. Leventhal, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, N.Y.; James V. Mattingly, Jr., Richard M. Ashton, Richard A. Small, Federal Reserve System, Wash., D.C., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant-cross-appellee.

Richard F. Lawler, New York, N.Y. (Philip M. Smith, John C. Canoni, Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan, New York, N.Y., on the brief), for defendant-appellee-cross-appellant.

Before: NEWMAN and JACOBS, Circuit Judges and TSOUCALAS, Judge.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents two issues concerning a civil penalty levied by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ("the Board"). The first is whether the Board is entitled to the ten percent surcharge on the penalty authorized by the Federal Debt Collection Procedures Act ("FDCP Act"), 28 U.S.C. §§ 3001-3308 (1994), in certain actions brought by the United States to recover debts. The second is whether the Board is entitled...

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