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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hammer grants the government's motion to intervene and for a stay in this civil action, which alleges the creation of a Ponzi scheme by the founders of a real estate investment company, until the resolution of a parallel criminal case. The government's motion is timely, it has demonstrated a sufficient interest in the action since the issues in the criminal case substantially overlap with the issues in this one, and the government has demonstrated that continued discovery in this case could threaten its interests in the criminal case. Limiting a stay to the two defendants both cases have in common would also raise "difficult Fifth Amendment concerns" for the unindicted civil defendants, and a stay would not prejudice the civil plaintiffs while avoiding prejudice to the civil defendants. The public interest also favors a stay.