If the man is a career thief, then yes they should seize his car and house too. The point is that when someone is a "career criminal", everything they own is i

If the man is a career thief, then yes they should seize his car and house too. The point is that when someone is a "career criminal", everything they own is in one way or another traceable to crime. If I rob a bank and use the money to buy a Dominoes franchise, and then use the money I make off of that to buy a house. It's all ill gotten gains. The reason the feds seize everything, is because they may have to trace your entire fiscal history to find out where money went and came from. What happens if you owned your house for 5 years, and then started using criminal gains to pay your mortgage for the next 10. What happens when ~20% of your house is criminal gains? Do the feds get to come take your garage, or you guest suite? What about your cars new transmission, do they get to just rip that off the vehicle?