UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS THIRD CIRCUIT _____________

No. 13-3592 _____________

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

v.

MAURICE PHILLIPS, Appellant _____________

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Crim. No. 2-07-cr-00549-001) District Judge: Hon. J. Curtis Joyner _____________

Submitted Pursuant to Third Circuit LAR 34.1 (a) (July 22, 2014) ______________

BEFORE: McKEE, Chief Judge, CHAGARES, Circuit Judge, and THOMPSON, District Judge.

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JUDGMENT ORDER ______________

After considering the contentions raised by appellant, to-wit, that the District

Court erred abused its discretion in denying Appellant’s emergency motion to stay

enforcement of the court’s preliminary order of forfeiture for substitute asset.

 The Honorable Anne E. Thompson, Senior District Judge of New Jersey, sitting by designation. On consideration whereof and in light of our disposition of United States v.

Phillips,

(3d Cir. 2014) cert. denied,

(2015), it is now

here ORDERED AND ADJUDGED by this Court that the judgment of the said District

Court entered July 25, 2013, be, and the same is hereby affirmed.

By the Court,

s/Theodore A. McKee Circuit Judge

Attest:

s/Marcia M. Waldron Clerk

Dated: January 26, 2016