Criminal Division’s Fraud Section Announces Historic Year of Accomplishments

The Fraud Section today released its 2025 Year in Review (YIR) detailing the Section’s record-setting accomplishments, cutting-edge initiatives, and successes in priority areas.

“The outstanding results reflected in this year’s Year in Review are a testament to the extraordinary skill, dedication, hard work, and professionalism of our prosectors and staff in the Fraud Section,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “The importance of this work cannot be overstated. The cases brought by this Section secured punishment for criminals who swindled from businesses, exploited and abused government-funded programs, engaged in corrupt conduct, put the health and safety of Americans at risk, evaded tariffs, and preyed on private citizens – often robbing some of our most vulnerable of their life savings. Equally important, the tireless efforts of these dedicated public servants secured justice and restitution for victims and, ultimately, returned significant funds to the tax-paying public. As we start 2026, the achievements of the past year motivate us to continue the Section’s long and storied history of investigating and prosecuting the most sophisticated and most harmful economic crimes.”

The YIR provides a comprehensive overview of the Section and its units’ roles in combatting new and emerging threats and re-affirms its position as the leader in the fight against white-collar crime. As detailed in the YIR, the Fraud Section had a record-setting 2025, including the largest ever Health Care Fraud Takedown in Department of Justice history, charging defendants with a record amount of intended loss of more than $14.6 billion. The Section also continued to lead the Department’s corporate enforcement efforts with 15 corporate enforcement actions, including indictments against three companies, marking the Section’s first corporate indictments in over 15 years and the most corporate indictments in a single year.

Furthermore,  through its innovative and proactive use of data analytics, the Section secured key achievements in priority areas, such as fraud associated with foreign issuers listed on U.S. exchanges, including variable interest entities and trade and tariff fraud. The Section prosecuted impactful Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases against companies and individuals, consistent with the Deputy Attorney General’s June 2025 Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the FCPA. In total, the Section charged over 260 defendants for various economic crime schemes, conducted 25 trials, and had 15 corporate enforcement actions — including four involving health care fraud, a record — with a total global monetary amount of over $1 billion.

The YIR also highlights the Fraud Section’s historic expansion through the integration of the Consumer Protection Branch. Now, with more than 200 attorneys, the Section has strengthened its capacity to prosecute serious, sophisticated white-collar offenses across multiple priority areas, including those impacting health and safety.

The Fraud Section remains laser-focused on its ongoing efforts to prosecute fraud in every form, from customs and tariff fraud, bribery and corruption, health care fraud, procurement fraud, and other crimes impacting the interests of the United States. Seventy years after the Fraud Section’s creation, the YIR illustrates the many ways in which the Section continues to meet the challenges of the moment and innovate to successfully investigate and prosecute the ever-changing landscape of white-collar crime.

The YIR can be accessed here: https://www.justice.gov/criminal/media/1425226/dl.