U.S. Attorney's Office Entered Settlements Exceeding $900 Million and Collected Over $70 Million in Civil and Criminal Actions in Fiscal Year 2025

BOSTON - United States Attorney Leah B. Foley announced today that the District of Massachusetts entered settlements with defendants for more than $900 million and collected more than $70 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2025. Of this amount, $30.5 million was collected in criminal actions and $39.6 million was collected in civil actions. The Office also recovered more than $48 million in forfeited assets.

Additionally, the District of Massachusetts worked with other U.S. Attorney's Offices and Department of Justice components to collect more than $557 million in cases pursued jointly by these offices. Of this amount, $556.9 million was collected in civil actions and $75,165 was collected in criminal actions. The remaining amounts will be recovered over time.

"The U.S. Attorney's Office had another a record year. Significant defense contracting and health care fraud settlements will return more than $900 million to the American taxpayers. We also collected more than $70 million in other civil and criminal actions and forfeited over $48 million in criminally derived property. This Office has continued to set the standard for securing and recovering assets for victims, holding wrongdoers accountable and protecting taxpayer dollars. We will continue to aggressively pursue enforcement and collection actions to advance those goals."

In Fiscal Year 2025, the Office's Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit (ACE) entered into settlements with defendants totaling over $900 million. These included the agreement with Raytheon Company to resolve criminal and civil allegations of fraud against the government in numerous defense contracts. Raytheon agreed to pay $147 million to resolve the criminal allegations and $428 million to resolve the civil allegations - making it the second largest government procurement fraud recovery under the False Claims Act (FCA).

The ACE Unit also entered into a $425 million resolution with Teva Pharmaceuticals to resolve allegations that Teva paid kickbacks via two co-pay assistance foundations in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute and FCA. This resolution stands as the largest co-pay assistance settlement to date.

In Fiscal Year 2025, the Asset Recovery Unit (ARU) was responsible for the collection of over $30.6 million in restitution for victims, criminal fines and special assessments, as well as forfeiture of $48.2 million in criminal proceeds or other property involved in crimes. This forfeited amount includes approximately $22.5 million in forfeited cryptocurrency. ARU recovered an additional $7.35 million in an appearance bond enforcement action against a Greenwich Conn., mansion owned by a fugitive.

ARU completed the collection of the entire $48,344,036 in criminal restitution awarded to victims of a health care racketeering conspiracy committed by the founder and six former executives of Insys Therapeutics. Additionally, ARU filed several civil forfeiture cases to recover funds for fraud victims, including victims of cryptocurrency and elder fraud scams, and obtained forfeiture of over $5 million traceable to a business email compromise scheme targeting a Massachusetts workers union. It also filed a civil forfeiture case against seized cryptocurrency alleged to be the property of Iranian national Mohammad Abedini, who was charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

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.

The District of Massachusetts' Civil Division is led by Assistant United States Attorney Abraham R. George, Chief of Civil. Assistant United States Attorney Brian LaMacchia, Chief of the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit, leads the District's efforts in affirmative civil enforcement and Assistant United States Attorney Carol Head, Chief of the Asset Recovery Unit, leads the District's forfeiture and restitution efforts.