U.S. Attorney’s Office for Eastern District of NY joins in over $2.2B In civil, criminal actions, forefeitures
U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced Friday that the Eastern District of New York, working collaboratively with other offices as well as on its own, collected over $904 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013.
Of this total amount, $725,564,627.70 resulted from cases handled in conjunction with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the Department of Justice. Collections from criminal and civil actions handled solely by the Eastern District of New York totaled $178,848,788.63.
In addition, working with partner agencies and divisions, the Eastern District forfeited another $1,319,038,046 in assets tainted by crime. Forfeited assets are deposited into the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund and the Treasury Forfeiture Fund and are used to restore funds to crime victims and for a variety of law enforcement purposes.