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Before JONES, Chief Judge, and SMITH and ELROD, Circuit Judges.

Wendy Silette retired her Florida condominium’s mortgage with $328,000 given her by George Hudgins. Unbeknownst to Silette, Hudgins obtained this money by defrauding investors through a Ponzi scheme. A court-appointed receiver in Hudgins’s case petitioned the court to take control of Silette’s condominium in order to sell it and redistribute the funds to Hudgins’s victims. The district court granted the petition, imposed an equitable lien, and ordered Silette to transfer the condominium to the receiver. Silette appeals, arguing that the Florida Constitution’s homestead exemption prevented the court from imposing an equitable lien and that the transfer order was improper. We affirm.

 
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