Government Regulatory Prosecutions for September 2024
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during September 2024 the government reported 79 new government regulatory prosecutions. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this number is up from 66 the previous month.
The comparisons of the number of defendants charged with government regulatory-related offenses are based on case-by-case information obtained by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (see Table 2).
When monthly 2024 prosecutions of this type are compared with those of the same period in the previous year, the number of filings was only slightly down (-0.2%). Prosecutions over the past year are still much lower than they were five years ago. Overall, the data show that prosecutions of this type are down 17.5 percent from levels reported in 2019.
Figure 1. Monthly Trends in Government Regulatory Prosecutions
The decrease from the levels five years ago in government regulatory prosecutions for these matters is shown more clearly in Figure 2. The vertical bars in Figure 2 represent the number of government regulatory prosecutions of this type recorded on a month-to-month basis. Where a prosecution was initially filed in U.S. Magistrate Court and then transferred to the U.S. District Court, the magistrate filing date was used since this provides an earlier indicator of actual trends. The superimposed line on the bars plots the six-month moving average so that natural fluctuations are smoothed out. To view trends year-by-year rather than month-by-month, see TRAC's annual report series for a broader picture.
Number of Defendants in Government Regulatory Cases
Table 2 lists all separate cases with the number of defendants.
Case Defendant # 2024 - Fla, S (Miami) Case: 1 1 Details 2024 - Fla, S (Miami) Case: 1 2 Details 2024 - Fla, S (Miami) Case: 1 3 Details 2024 - N. Y., S (Manhattan) Case: 2 1 Details 2024 - N. Y., S (Manhattan) Case: 2 2 Details 2024 - Texas, S (Houston) Case: 3 1 Details 2024 - Texas, S (Houston) Case: 3 2 Details 2024 - Arizona (Phoenix) Case: 4 1 Details 2024 - D. C. (Washington) Case: 5 1 Details 2024 - D. C. (Washington) Case: 6 1 Details 2024 - D. C. (Washington) Case: 7 1 Details 2024 - D. C. (Washington) Case: 8 1 Details 2024 - Fla, S (Miami) Case: 9 1 Details 2024 - Fla, S (Miami) Case: 10 1 Details 2024 - Ga, N (Atlanta) Case: 11 1 Details 2024 - Ga, N (Atlanta) Case: 12 1 Details 2024 - Ga, N (Atlanta) Case: 13 1 Details 2024 - Ga, N (Atlanta) Case: 14 1 Details 2024 - Iowa, S (Des Moines) Case: 15 1 Details 2024 - Kansas (Topeka) Case: 16 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 17 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 18 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 19 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 20 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 21 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 22 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 23 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 24 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 25 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 26 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 27 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 28 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 29 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 30 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 31 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 32 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 33 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 34 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 35 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 36 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 37 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 38 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 39 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 40 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 41 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 42 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 43 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 44 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 45 1 Details 2024 - La, W (Shreveport) Case: 46 1 Details Table 2. Number of Defendants per Case
Details on 29 more defendants are available and can be viewed using the People (Judge) express list tool in TRACFED.
Report Generated: November 1, 2024
