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Nature of Suit Code: 890
Nature of Suit: Other Statutory Actions
Cause of Action: Civil Miscellaneous Case

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

 Plaintiff,

v.

JOSEPH M. CUELLAR,

 Defendant and Judgment Debtor.

CITIBANK, N.A.,

 Garnishee.

Case No.: 1:15-MC-00021-LJO 

ORDER ON APPLICATION FOR A

FINAL ORDER OF GARNISHMENT 

CRIMINAL CASE. NO.: 1:10-CR-00285-LJO

Pending before the Court is the United States’ application for a final order garnishing defendant 

Joseph M. Cuellar’s interests in various financial accounts he and his spouse, Alicia Cuellar, (the 

Cuellars) maintain at garnishee Citibank, N.A. (the Application). ECF No. 11. The Court denied 

Defendant’s motion to stay the United States’ efforts to collect restitution on July 20, 2015 (ECF No. 

15) and, having reviewed the court files and the Application, and finding good cause therefrom, hereby 

GRANTS the Application. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that:

1. Garnishee Citibank shall DELIVER, within twenty (20) days of the filing of this Order, a 

cashier’s check or money order in a combined amount drawn from the Cuellar’s individual and joint 

Citibank accounts (the Garnishment Amount) as follows: 

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A. The entire account balance in the Cuellar’s joint checking account ending in 

numbers 5986; 

B. The entire account balance in the Cuellar’s joint money market fund ending in 

numbers 2108; 

C. The entire account balance in Defendant’s IRA ending in numbers 9811; 

D. The entire account balance in the Cuellar’s joint checking account ending in 

numbers 4774; and

E. $24,919.66 from Alicia Cuellar’s money market account ending in numbers 6698.

2. Citibank shall make the Garnishment Amount payable to the “Clerk of the Court” at the 

Office of the Clerk, United States District Court, Eastern District of California, 501 I Street, Suite 4-200, 

Sacramento, California 95814. Citibank shall also state the docket number (Case No.: 1:10-CR-00285-

LJO) on the payment instrument and, if it desires a payment receipt, shall include a self-addressed, 

stamped envelope with the payment.

3. Upon Citibank’s payment of the Garnishment Amount to the Clerk of Court as forth above, 

Citibank may RELEASE the hold created by this garnishment proceeding on the Cuellar’s Citibank 

accounts. 

4. This is a final order of garnishment; upon the payment and deposit of the Garnishment 

Amount as set forth above, this writ shall TERMINATE pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 3205(c)(10)(B). 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: July 27, 2015 /s/ Lawrence J. O’Neill 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

 

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