IANAL but my understanding is that there is a law that allows the victim to sue for the proceeds. My understanding is also that if you have sophisticated legal

IANAL but my understanding is that there is a law that allows the victim to sue for the proceeds. My understanding is also that if you have sophisticated legal isolation to protect the funds (say your parents are Stanford lecturer lawyers), it's effectively unenforceable. First amendment means he can speak about it and it would castrate news companies if third party entities could not profit from reporting on crime.