No, in that case the Feds have the car, as indeed they do, and are selling the car to help make restitution to the defrauded parties. If the fraudster spent the money at a hotel, that’s just considered unrecoverable. The hotel rendered services and were paid for them. But if a wealthy church with millions of dollars in the bank received the money, that’s certainly recoverable. Again, this is not breaking new ground, legally. They are going to have to pay this money back.
“No, in that case the Feds have the car”
What if the car was totaled years ago?
And no car holds it’s value. Does the dealer need to make up the difference.
“But if a wealthy church with millions of dollars in the bank received the money, that’s certainly recoverable.”
Hotel or car dealer may be much richer than the church.
You have no consistent argument.