U.S. Attorney’s Office Collects More than $1.5 Billion in Criminal and Civil Actions in Fiscal Year 2025, the Most in the Country

NEWARK - The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey announced today that it collected $1,507,147,950.92 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2025-the most of any U.S. Attorney's Office in the country. Of this amount, $1,449,394,479.05 was collected in criminal actions and $57,753,471.87 was collected in civil actions.

The District of New Jersey also worked with other U.S. Attorney's Offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect an additional $154,991,037.56 in cases pursued jointly by these offices. Of this amount, $63,222.72 was collected in criminal actions and $154,927,814.84 was collected in civil actions. In addition, the District of New Jersey, working with partner agencies and divisions, collected $348,488,011 in asset forfeiture actions, the second most in the country.

"In fiscal year 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey outpaced the rest of the country, recovering more than $1.5 billion in criminal and civil actions. The District also recovered more than $348 million in asset forfeiture actions, as well as tens of millions more through other proceedings. As our fiscal year 2025 results demonstrate, the District of New Jersey is dedicated to holding defendants accountable for their wrongdoing, seizing ill-gotten gains from offenders, recovering debts owed to the United States in bankruptcy, and recovering funds for crime victims."

- U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer

Significant recoveries include more than $1.43 billion in fines and more than $328 million in criminal forfeiture from TD Bank, N.A. and TD Bank US Holding Company in connection with the companies' guilty pleas stemming from their pervasive, systemic anti-money laundering failures. TD Bank was the largest bank in U.S. history to plead guilty to Bank Secrecy Act program failures and the first US bank in history to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The District of New Jersey also had significant recoveries in civil forfeiture actions, including a civil forfeiture complaint to forfeit the proceeds of fraudulently obtained Paycheck Protection Program loans. In that civil forfeiture action, the government forfeited nearly $7 million in funds, as well as a residential property with an estimated market value of over $2 million.

With respect to the District of New Jersey's affirmative civil enforcement practice, two Pennsylvania companies and one South Carolina company affiliated with Rema Tip Top of America, Inc. entered into a settlement agreement with the United States resolving allegations that the companies violated the False Claims Act by taking a total of five Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans totaling $13 million to which the companies were not entitled. In addition, Summit BHC New Jersey, LLC, d/b/a Seabrook, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Bridgeton, New Jersey, agreed to pay $19.75 million to resolve allegations that it fraudulently billed for services to veterans that were improperly provided or not provided at all. In addition, the District of New Jersey either recovered or preserved federal claims totaling approximately $80 million in civil bankruptcy proceedings where individuals and businesses owed debts to federal agencies.

The U.S. Attorneys' Offices, along with the department's litigating divisions, are responsible for enforcing and collecting civil and criminal debts owed to the U.S. and criminal debts owed to federal crime victims. The law requires defendants to pay restitution to victims of certain federal crimes who have suffered a physical injury or financial loss. While restitution is paid to the victim, criminal fines and felony assessments are paid to the department's Crime Victims Fund, which distributes the funds collected to federal and state victim compensation and victim assistance programs. Forfeited assets deposited into the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund are used to restore funds to crime victims and for a variety of law enforcement purposes. Recoveries in bankruptcy are returned to the federal agencies that are creditors in the case.

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