On Monday, September 16, 2013, following a civil complaint originally filed in 2008 by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York cleared a path for the U.S. government to seize a Manhattan office building located at 650 Fifth Ave., New York, in what U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara called the "largest-ever terrorism-related forfeiture."