Today I got a call back from the DOJ. If anyone else is interested, the office that is running this show is the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. There's a number of the bottom right corner.
https://www.justice.gov/criminal-mlars
The update on my claim is that GCG filed it with the DOJ, but the DOJ for whatever reason has not approved it. I pushed back a bit because I filed two claims (one small, one kinda big) and the small one had been approved. The person I talked to at the DOJ said that my application wasn't being held for an audit or due to some deficiency, just that they haven't gotten to it yet despite me filing almost right away. In addition, they claimed that they have thousands of other claims to process. Not sure what I think about that given that this thread has died down so much and a lot of people seem to have gotten paid.
I was worried in the past that because I was getting rakeback that I was flagged as an 'affiliate' or 'pro' but they specifically say on the website now that rakeback is not a problem and anyone designated as an 'affiliate' or 'pro' would have a balance of 0.00 when they applied.
So it seems like my claim is actually caught up in the bureaucracy on the government side now. Would really like to resolve this after filing over a year ago.
Hopefully this helps someone else.