This week the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to hear the case, which could affect a number of other white-collar cases where the government has frozen assets upon issuing an indictment.

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Massey said the government would normally ask that a defendant be held without bail when he was arrested after arrival from another country but decided not to seek detention because Rajaratnam returned to the United States so soon after hearing of the indictment and knowing he would be arrested upon his arrival.

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