| Official Corruption Prosecutions Decline Under Obama |
| (07 Jul 2014)
Recent data from the Justice Department show that 302 individuals have been prosecuted for criminal corruption offenses during the first seven months of FY 2014.
If such prosecutions continue at the current rate, this would represent a decrease of 18.6 percent from the numbers reported for FY 2013, and a drop of 28.5 percent from five years ago.
While the annual average number of referrals for official corruption has remained relatively unchanged from the Bush to the Obama Administration, fewer have proceeded to prosecution under Obama (39.4%) than under Bush (41.6%). And so far this fiscal year, only 34 percent of these referrals have led to prosecution. The most commonly cited lead charge in FY 2014 has been 18 USC 666, involving theft or bribery in programs receiving federal funds, accounting for 22 percent of all official corruption prosecutions. Montana leads all districts with a total of 18 official corruption prosecutions so far this fiscal year, followed by the Southern District of Florida (Miami) with 15. For more details, including a twenty-year timeline of prosecutions and top district rankings, see the report at: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/crim/358/In addition to this fiscal year report on official corruption, TRAC continues to offer free monthly reports on selected government agencies such as the FBI, ATF, DHS and the IRS. TRAC's reports also monitor program categories such as immigration, drugs, weapons, white collar crime and terrorism. For the latest information on prosecutions and convictions through April 2014, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/bulletins/Even more detailed criminal enforcement information for the period from FY 1986 through April 2014 is available to TRACFed subscribers via the Express and Going Deeper tools. Go to http://tracfed.syr.edu for more information. Customized reports for a specific agency, district, program, lead charge or judge are available via the TRAC Data Interpreter, either as part of a TRACFed subscription or on a per-report basis. Go to http://trac.syr.edu/interpreter to start. To keep up with TRAC, follow us on Twitter @tracreports or like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/tracreportsTRAC is self-supporting and depends on foundation grants, individual contributions and subscription fees for the funding needed to obtain, analyze and publish the data we collect on the activities of the US Federal government. To help support TRAC's ongoing efforts, go to: http://trac.syr.edu/sponsor/ |
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