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White Collar Prosecutions Down More Than 35 Percent

August 13, 2018

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Monthly comparisons of the number of defendants charged with white collar crime-related offenses are down 6.3 percent from the same period one year ago, and more than 35 percent from 2013. The downward trend has accelerated under the Trump DOJ, but dates back well into the Obama years. The largest number of prosecutions for May 2018 was for fraud, broadly defined, with sub-categories like Fraud-Health Care, Fraud-Financial Institution and Fraud-Other Business accounting for many of the 459 new cases opened. The Southern District of New York and the Southern District of Florida (Miami) were the busiest white collar courts. The District of Idaho now ranks third. The federal judicial district which showed the greatest growth in the rate of white collar crime prosecutions compared to one year ago — 124 percent — was Northern District of Georgia (Atlanta). The lead investigative agency for white collar crime prosecutions in May 2018 was the FBI accounting for 25 percent of prosecutions referred. Other agencies with substantial numbers were: Postal, IRS and Health and Human Services.

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