NEW: The Justice Department announced a task force to target the assets of Russian oligarchs after Pres. Joe Biden previewed the move in his State of the Union address.
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"The United States Department of Justice is assembling a dedicated task force to go after the crimes of the Russian oligarchs," Biden said."We are joining with European allies to find and seize their yachts, their luxury apartments, their private jets. We're coming for your ill-begotten gains." The department says it will bring"cutting edge" resources from the deputy attorney general's office and will be led by a career prosecutor out of the Southern District of New York.
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