Copr. (C) West 1998 No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works

Copr. (C) West 1998 No Claim to Orig. U.S. Govt. Works Not Reported in F.Supp. (Cite as: 1998 WL 67676 (S.D.N.Y.)) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. Jeffrey E. EPSTEIN and Ivan S. Fisher, Defendants. No. 96 Civ. 8307(DC). United States District Court, S.D. New York. Feb. 19, 1998. Mary Jo White, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, by Serene Nakano, Assistant United States Attorney, New York City, for the United States. Gage & Pavlis, by G. Robert Gage, Jr., Ellen J. Casey, New York City, for Ivan S. Fisher. MEMORANDUM DECISION CHIN, J. *1 In this case, the United States (the "Government") seeks to evict defendants Jeffrey E. Epstein and Ivan S. Fisher from a building formerly used as a residence by the Deputy Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Iran ("Iran"). After diplomatic and consular relations with Iran were severed in 1980, the Office of Foreign Missions ("OFM") of the United States Department of State took possession of the