Civil Division

The Civil Division’s responsibility is to represent the United States in all civil actions brought by or against the United States. It is comprised of multiple attorneys (known as Assistant United States Attorneys or “AUSA’s,”), legal assistants and a fraud investigator. It is supervised by the Civil Chief.

The Civil Division defends the federal government agencies that have been sued as permitted by law including tort suits, judicial appeals of administrative decisions denying applications for Social Security disability benefits and suits by federal prisoners. The Civil Division protects the interest of federal government agencies which are owed money by those filing bankruptcy.

The Civil Division also works proactively in cases involving theft, waste and abuse of government resources, including numerous fraud cases involving the False Claims Act.  The Division annually collects millions of dollars that have been stolen from taxpayers and returns that money to the federal government.

The FLU (“Financial Litigation Unit”) is also a part of the Civil Division. FLU is responsible for reducing judgment to a variety of civil debts owed to various federal agencies and takes the appropriate steps to collect those judgments. Additionally, the FLU does the collection of assessments, fines and restitution imposed on defendants in federal criminal cases. 

The Civil and Criminal Divisions work closely together to coordinate parallel investigations and cases arising from the same or related circumstances including asset forfeiture provisions which strip criminals of the fruit of their criminal activity.

In Fiscal Year 2025, our office collected over $5.29 million, and our asset forfeiture division collected over $1.1 million in FY25.