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U.S. Department of Justice

Executive Office for United States Attorneys

United States Attorneys

Annual Statistical Report

Fiscal Year 1999

UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS

ANNUAL STATISTICAL REPORT

FISCAL YEAR 1999

The United States Attorney

is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy,

but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is

as compelling as its obligation to govern at all;

and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that

it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.

As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the

servant of the law, the twofold aim of which

is that guilt shall not escape or innocence suffer.

He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor -- indeed, he should do so.

But, while he may strike hard blows,

he is not at liberty to strike foul ones.

It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods

calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to

use every legitimate means to bring about a just one.

Quoted from the Statement of Mr. Justice Sutherland in

Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 88 (1935)

U.S. Department of Justice

Executive Office for United States Attorneys

Office of the Director Washington, DC 20530

MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

I am pleased to welcome you to the United States Attorneys’ Fiscal Year1999 Annual Statistical Report.

This report provides a brief summary of the work carried out by the United States Attorneys’ offices during the

fiscal year. While this abstract of caseload statistics, program discussions, and case summaries does not fully

impart the work of the United States Attorneys’ offices, it provides a glimpse of the types of cases the offices

are handling, the offices’ commitment and dedication to prosecuting and litigating cases, and the diversity and

complexity of the caseloads and work conducted around the country.

The United States Attorneys, under the direction of the Attorney General, are responsible for

investigating and prosecuting those who violate our nation’s laws, and for asserting and defending the interests

of the United States, its departments and agencies, through the conduct of civil litigation. The United States

Attorneys, appointed to serve in the 94 federal judicial districts throughout the country, are charged with

carrying out these prosecution and litigation responsibilities within their respective districts. Although there

are 94 federal judicial districts, there are only 93 United States Attorneys because one United States Attorney

is appointed to serve in both the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The 93 United States

Attorneys direct and supervise the work of Assistant United States Attorneys and support personnel located in

each district’s headquarters office and, as needed, in staffed branch offices. The United States Attorney system

nationwide consisted of 94 headquarters offices and 123 staffed branch offices as of the end of Fiscal Year

1999.

The United States Attorneys’ offices conduct most of the criminal prosecutions and civil litigation

handled by the Department of Justice. The offices investigate and prosecute a wide range of criminal activities,

from organized drug trafficking and violent crimes, to environmental offenses, to health care frauds, to

corruption by public officials. In the civil arena, the United States Attorneys’ offices defend federal government

agencies, for example, in tort suits brought by those who allege suffering as a result of government actions, or

alleged medical malpractice by federal employees. The United States Attorneys also initiate civil cases against

individuals or businesses to enforce the laws, such as in civil health care fraud cases, or to represent the

government’s interests, such as in bankruptcy actions.

The Executive Office for United States Attorneys provides the United States Attorneys’ offices with

administrative and budget support, provides extensive legal training through the National Advocacy Center to

Assistant United States Attorneys and support staff, and supports the operation of the Attorney General’s

Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys (AGAC). The AGAC consists of 19 United States Attorneys

who are appointed by the Attorney General. The committee, which meets monthly with the Attorney General,

This Annual Statistical Report prepared by:

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represents various judicial districts, office sizes, and geographic locations. The committee advises the Attorney

General and is the voice of the United States Attorneys in Department policy. The AGAC has more than 20

subcommittees and working groups addressing key law enforcement issues.

As an integral part of their prosecution and litigation efforts, the United States Attorneys report to the

Executive Office for United States Attorneys in Washington, D.C., information on the criminal and civil

matters, cases, and appeals that they handle. A centralized computer database containing this information is

maintained by the Executive Office for United States Attorneys. The United States Attorneys Annual Statistical

Report summarizes and presents the matter and case-related information reported by the United States

Attorneys. The Executive Office for United States Attorneys completed the implementation of a new case

management system, the Legal Information Office Network System (LIONS), in all United States Attorneys’

offices during Fiscal Year 1998. This new oracle-based data management software allows United States

Attorneys’ offices to maintain information on pending workloads and to produce a variety of reports based on

that information, and to report information to the centralized computer database maintained by the Executive

Office for United States Attorneys in a more timely manner.

The charts and tables presented in this report reflect a statistical summary of the matters and cases

handled by the United States Attorneys. These charts and tables, however, cannot and do not reflect the quality

and complexity of the criminal prosecutions and civil litigation conducted by the offices. Additionally, the

statistics are woefully inadequate in presenting a realistic picture of the time, effort and skill required to

prosecute and litigate the cases. Some examples of cases handled during the year are included in the text to

illustrate caseload composition and, more importantly, the successful efforts of the many men and women who

work in the United States Attorneys’ offices. Finally, significant liaison work performed by the United States

Attorneys, Assistant United States Attorneys and other members of the staffs with federal, state and local law

enforcement entities, the victims of crime, the local communities, schools, and other organizations cannot be

quantified. Since the role of the United States Attorneys is to see “that justice shall be done,” Berger v.

United States, 295 U.S. 88 (1935), the true and comprehensive accomplishments of the United States Attorneys

cannot be tabulated statistically.

The men and women serving in the United States Attorneys’ offices protect our communities from drug

activities and violence, protect our nation’s and citizens’ financial interests through their enforcement of

government regulations and the pursuit of white collar criminals, and help to keep our borders secure. They

also vigorously represent the United States’ interests in the civil litigation and appellate arenas. It is an honor

to present to you in this report the outstanding work and accomplishments of the United States Attorneys and

their staffs during Fiscal Year 1999.

Mary H. Murguia

Director

March 2000

FISCAL YEAR 1999 STATISTICAL HIGHLIGHTS

OVERALL CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS

• 50,779 cases filed against 71,560 defendants–case filings up seven percent

• 46,423 cases against 64,517 defendants terminated–case terminations up 14 percent

• 57,876 defendants convicted

• 90 percent conviction rate

• 79 percent of convicted defendants sentenced to prison

• 48 percent of prison sentences greater than three years

• 28 percent of prison sentences greater than five years

VIOLENT CRIME

• 7,392 cases filed against 9,175 defendants–case filings up seven percent

• 6,539 cases against 8,404 defendants terminated–case terminations up six percent

• 7,327 defendants convicted

• 87 percent conviction rate

• 89 percent of convicted defendants sentenced to prison

• 69 percent of prison sentences greater than three years

• 47 percent of prison sentences greater than five years

OVERALL NARCOTICS

• 16,617 cases filed against 29,846 defendants–case filings up ten percent

• {17,038 cases filed against 30,682 defendants–case filings up ten percent-- when

drug cases diverted to the Violent Crime and Government Regulatory/Money

Laundering Program Categories are included}

• 14,800 cases against 25,752 defendants terminated–case terminations up 21 percent

• 23,133 defendants convicted

• 90 percent conviction rate

• 91 percent of convicted defendants sentenced to prison

• 61 percent of prison sentences greater than three years

• 38 percent of prison sentences greater than five years

OCDETF

• 3,270 cases filed against 9,222 defendants–case filings up 45 percent

• {3,332 cases filed against 9,345 defendants–case filings up 36 percent--

when drug cases diverted to the Violent Crime Program Category are

included}

• 2,459 cases against 7,011 defendants terminated–case terminations up 55 percent

• 6,232 defendants convicted

• 89 percent conviction rate

• 92 percent of convicted defendants sentenced to prison

• 74 percent of prison sentences greater than three years

• 51 percent of prison sentences greater than five years

NON-OCDETF

• 13,347 cases filed against 20,624 defendants–case filings up four percent

• {13,706 cases filed against 21,337 defendants–case filings up five

percent--when drug cases diverted to the Violent Crime and Government

Regulatory/Money Laundering Program Categories are included}

• 12,341 cases against 18,741 defendants terminated–case terminations up 15

percent

• 16,901 defendants convicted

• 90 percent conviction rate

• 91 percent of convicted defendants sentenced to prison

• 56 percent of prison sentences greater than three years

• 33 percent of prison sentences greater than five years

IMMIGRATION

• 11,580 cases filed against 12,650 defendants–case filings up 15 percent

• 10,769 cases against 11,770 defendants terminated–case terminations up 24 percent

• 11,206 defendants convicted

• 95 percent conviction rate

• 81 percent of convicted defendants sentenced to prison

• 30 percent of prison sentences greater than three years

• 10 percent of prison sentences greater than five years

ORGANIZED CRIME

• 209 cases filed against 429 defendants–case filings up five percent

• {266 cases filed against 566 defendants–case filings down two percent-- when

cases diverted to the Violent Crime Program Category are included}

• 173 cases against 362 defendants terminated–case terminations down 13 percent

• 308 defendants convicted

• 85 percent conviction rate

• 70 percent of convicted defendants sentenced to prison

• 58 percent of prison sentences greater than three years

• 43 percent of prison sentences greater than five years

OFFICIAL CORRUPTION

• 535 cases filed against 738 defendants–case filings up two percent

• 477 cases against 662 defendants terminated–case terminations up three percent

• 580 defendants convicted

• 88 percent conviction rate

• 49 percent of convicted defendants sentenced to prison

• 26 percent of prison sentences greater than three years

• 10 percent of prison sentences greater than five years

With the conversion to the LIONS case management system during FY 1998, data on civil debt collection

cases is now captured in a separate system and, thus, is no longer included in the civil caseload data shown

throughout this report. Therefore, comparisons of data for the overall civil caseload or for the affirmative civil

caseload should not be made between FY 1999 and prior years.

WHITE COLLAR CRIME

• 6,558 cases filed against 8,670 defendants–case filings down two percent

• 6,311 cases against 8,142 defendants terminated–case terminations up four percent

• 7,309 defendants convicted

• 90 percent conviction rate

• 56 percent of convicted defendants sentenced to prison

• 15 percent of prison sentences greater than three years

• six percent of prison sentences greater than five years

ASSET FORFEITURE LITIGATION

C Asset forfeiture counts filed in 1,517 criminal cases–down 16 percent

C A total of 1,954 civil asset forfeiture actions filed–down 5 percent

C Estimated recoveries of over $535,767,852 in forfeited cash and property–up 91 percent

OVERALL CIVIL LITIGATION

• 75,603 cases filed or responded to

• 72,131 cases terminated

• 13,907 judgments, or 81 percent, were in favor of the United States

• 18,656 settlements–26 percent of all cases terminated

AFFIRMATIVE CIVIL LITIGATION

• 7,556 cases filed

• 7,120 cases terminated

• 3,005 judgments, or 97 percent, were in favor of the United States

• 1,840 settlements–26 percent of all cases terminated

AFFIRMATIVE CIVIL ENFORCEMENT

• 2,421 cases filed–case filings down eight percent

• 2,040 cases terminated–case terminations down four percent

• 387 judgments, or 90 percent, were in favor of the United States

• 699 settlements–34 percent of all cases terminated

• More than $1 billion recovered

DEFENSIVE CIVIL LITIGATION

• 50,498 cases responded to–down four percent

• 48,110 cases terminated–up three percent

• 10,568 judgments, or 77 percent, were in favor of the United States

• 7,978 settlements–17 percent of all cases terminated

CIVIL LITIGATION WHERE THE UNITED STATES IS OTHERWISE DESIGNATED

• 17,549 cases filed or responded to–down five percent

• 16,901 cases terminated–down 15 percent

• 334 judgments, or 75 percent, were in favor of the United States

• 8,838 settlements–52 percent of all cases terminated

DEBT COLLECTION

C 173,010 debts opened--up 32 percent

C $5.8 billion in debts opened--up 3 percent

C $2.3 billion in debts collected and property recovered–up 61 percent

C Amount collected equaled 2.03 times the amount of the entire United States Attorneys’

operating budget nationwide, and 2.5 times when asset forfeiture recoveries were

included

C 319,342 debts pending--up 31 percent

C $15.4 billion due in pending debts--up from $13 billion the prior year

CRIMINAL DEBT COLLECTION

C 83,491 debts opened--up 7 percent

C $4 billion in debts opened--up a half percent

C $1.2 billion in debts collected and property recovered--up 146 percent

C $985 million deposited to the Crime Victims Fund

C 172,921 debts pending--up 11 percent

C $13 billion due in pending debts--up from $10.6 billion due the prior year

CIVIL DEBT COLLECTION

C 89,519 debts opened--up 69 percent

C $1.8 billion in debts opened--up 8 percent

C $1.2 billion in debts collected and property recovered--up 20 percent

C 146,421 debts pending--up 67 percent

C $2.3 billion due in pending debts–down from $2.4 billion due the prior year

CRIMINAL AND CIVIL APPEALS

• 15,123 appeals filed–down one percent

• 8,830 criminal appeals filed–up three percent

• 6,293 civil appeals filed–down six percent

• 83 percent of all criminal appeals terminated in favor of the United States

• 78 percent of all civil appeals terminated in favor of the United States

• 6,652 post-sentencing motions filed by incarcerated defendants–down 12 percent

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Message from the Director

Fiscal Year 1999 Statistical Highlights

Table of Contents

Index to Graphical Charts in the Narrative

I. Overview of the United States Attorneys’ Offices 1

Mission and Organization 1

Staffing 1

Supporting Law Enforcement and the Community 3

Law Enforcement Coordinating Committees 3

Helping to Put More Police on the Beat 4

Encouraging the Use of Locality-Based Strategies 5

Guaranteeing the Rights of Victims and Witnesses 6

Victim/Witness Assistance 6

Emergency Witness Assistance Program 6

Promoting Organizational Effectiveness 7

Training 7

Information Technology 8

Paying Their Way 9

II. Criminal Prosecutions 10

United States District Court 10

United States Magistrate Court 20

District of Columbia Superior Court 22

Priority Criminal Prosecution Areas 24

International Crime 24

International and Domestic Terrorism 25

Violent Crime 26

Firearms Prosecutions 28

Violence Against Women 30

Violence Against Juveniles 31

Violent Crime in Indian Country 33

Violent Street Gangs 35

Violence in Public Housing 36

Narcotics Prosecutions 37

OCDETF 38

Non-OCDETF Drugs 41

Immigration 43

Border Enforcement 43

Anti-Smuggling Initiative 44

Detention and Removal of Criminal Aliens 45

Organized Crime 46

Official Corruption 47

Labor Management Offenses 49

White Collar Crime 51

Health Care Fraud 52

Major Financial Institution Fraud 54

Computer Crime 55

Other White Collar Crime 57

Government Regulatory Offenses 59

Environmental Crime 60

Child Support Recovery Act 62

Civil Rights Prosecutions 64

National Church Arson Task Force 66

III. Asset Forfeiture Litigation 68

IV. Civil Litigation 72

Affirmative Civil Litigation 79

Affirmative Civil Enforcement 79

Defensive Civil Litigation 83

Debt Collection 85

Criminal Debt Collection 87

Civil Debt Collection 87

Bankruptcy and Foreclosure 88

Private Counsel Debt Collection Program 88

V. Criminal and Civil Appeals 89

Criminal Appeals 89

Post-Sentencing Motions 91

Civil Appeals 93

VI. Reconciliation of Federal Case Processing Data 95

VII. Conclusion 99

VIII. Detailed Statistical Tables 100

INDEX TO GRAPHICAL CHARTS IN THE NARRATIVE

Chart Page

Number Number

Overview Charts

1 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Personnel 2

2 Court Related Attorney Work Hours 3

Criminal Charts

1 Criminal Matters Received 11

2 Criminal Matters Declined 11

3 Proceedings Before Grand Jury 12

4 Criminal Cases Filed 13

5 Criminal Cases and Defendants Terminated 13

6 Criminal Defendants Disposed of by Trial 14

7 Conviction Rate 14

8 Percentage of Guilty Defendants Sentenced to Prison 15

9 Length of Sentences for Defendants Sentenced to Prison 15

10 Criminal Cases and Defendants Pending 16

11 Age of Pending Criminal Cases 16

12 Criminal Cases Filed by Program Category 18

13 Criminal Cases Pending by Program Category 19

14 Criminal Defendants Filed in U.S. Magistrate Court 20

15 Criminal Defendants Terminated in U.S. Magistrate Court 21

16 Criminal Defendants Disposed of by Trial in U.S. Magistrate Court 21

Asset Forfeiture Charts

1 Criminal and Civil Asset Forfeiture Judgments Obtained 69

2 Criminal and Civil Asset Forfeiture Collections 69

Civil Charts

1 Civil Matters Received 72

2 Civil Cases Filed or Responded to 73

3 Civil Cases Terminated 74

4 Civil Cases Disposed of by Trial 74

5 Civil Cases Pending 75

6 Age of Pending Civil Cases 75

7 Civil Cases Filed or Responded to by Cause of Action 77

8 Civil Cases Pending by Cause of Action 78

Debt Collection Charts

1 Criminal and Civil Debts Collected 86

Appeals Charts

1 Criminal Appeals Filed by or Against the United States 89

2 Criminal Appeals Filed by Program Category 90

3 Post-Sentencing Motions Filed by Incarcerated Defendants 92

4 Civil Appeals Filed by or Against the United States 93

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I. OVERVIEW OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS’ OFFICES

Mission and Organization

The United States Attorneys serve as the chief law enforcement officers within the nation’s

94 federal judicial districts. They are appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate, and

report to the Attorney General through the Deputy Attorney General. Each United States Attorney

is responsible for establishing law enforcement priorities within his or her district. Under general

executive assistance provided by the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, the United States

Attorneys are responsible for: prosecuting criminals for violation of our nation’s laws; representing

the United States as the chief litigator in civil judicial proceedings; and handling criminal and civil

appellate cases before the United States Courts of Appeals. The United States Attorneys also carry

out the important role of liaison with federal, state and local law enforcement officers and members

of the community on various crime reduction programs.

The United States Attorneys continued during Fiscal Year 1999 to aggressively pursue those

individuals who violate federal laws, with an emphasis on the law enforcement programs and

initiatives of the Attorney General. Although violent crime, as reported to the Federal Bureau of

Investigation, has declined in recent years, its continued reduction remains a priority of the Attorney

General and the United States Attorneys. Within the violent crime category, the United States

Attorneys addressed the continuing, illegal use of firearms by those who perpetrate crimes and

accompanying acts of violence in our communities. Drug enforcement continued to be a priority of

the United States Attorneys, with particular emphasis on the operations of large drug organizations.

The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces target these groups, and made significant

progress during Fiscal Year 1999. The United States Attorneys also continue to secure our nation’s

borders. Some of the other special emphasis areas included child abuse and exploitation, securities

fraud, health care fraud, and civil rights violations.

Staffing

The United States Attorneys’ offices varied in size during Fiscal Year 1999 from 8.64

allocated Assistant United States Attorney positions in the District of Guam to 352.58 in the District

of Columbia. In the District of Columbia, the United States Attorney’s office also bears

responsibility for the prosecution of local crimes in the District of Columbia Superior Court. The

staffing levels in the United States Attorneys’ offices nationwide equaled 4,872 full time equivalent

(FTE) attorneys and 5,089 FTE support employees. See Overview Chart 1 below. During Fiscal

Year 1999, the United States Attorneys were authorized an increase of 96 positions, which included

64 attorneys to augment existing narcotics efforts.

Assistant United States Attorneys constituted 52 percent of all Department of Justice

attorneys and about 66 percent of those Department attorneys with prosecution or litigation

responsibilities. Most new Assistant United States Attorneys have prior litigation experience with

a prosecuting attorney’s office, a law firm, or another government agency. In addition to their prior

legal experience, Assistant United States Attorneys nationwide have an average of nine years’

experience in United States Attorneys’ offices.

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While the civil caseload is larger numerically, about 76 percent of attorney personnel were

devoted to criminal prosecutions and 24 percent to civil litigation. Ninety-two percent of all attorney

work hours spent in United States District Court were devoted to criminal prosecutions and eight

percent to civil litigation. See Table 13.

During Fiscal Year 1999, a total of 997,357 attorney work hours were devoted to court-

related activity. This represents a decrease of 28,676, or three percent, in the number of court-related

work hours when compared to Fiscal Year 1998, and is the sixth consecutive year during which

court-related time has decreased. See Overview Chart 2 below, and Table 13. Decreases were seen

in United States District Court for both criminal and civil work hours, reflective of the decreasing

number of cases which are going to trial. The number of work hours devoted to Magistrate Court

increased again during Fiscal Year 1999, reflecting the increased workload handled in the Magistrate

Courts over the past several years.

Of the total court-related work hours, Assistant United States Attorneys spent 510,547 hours,

or 51 percent, of their time in court. Sixty-three percent of this time in court was spent on criminal

cases in United States District Courts, 20 percent in United States Magistrate Courts, five percent

on civil cases in United States District Courts, and seven percent on special hearings. The remaining

five percent of the time was spent in the United States Courts of Appeals, United States Bankruptcy

Courts, and in state courts. Of the other 486,810, or 49 percent, of court-related work hours, 12

percent was spent on grand jury proceedings, 21 percent on court travel time, and 67 percent on

witness preparation.

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Supporting Law Enforcement and the Community

Law Enforcement Coordinating Committees

The Law Enforcement Coordinating Committees (LECC) were created in an effort to move

past territorial and jurisdictional concerns of federal, state, and local law enforcement entities, open

the lines of communication, and make the most efficient use of law enforcement resources. LECC

members represent a broad range of multilevel government law enforcement agencies. In some of

the larger districts, the full LECC may consist of several hundred individuals from federal agencies,

state and local government and police departments, and in some cases, foreign law enforcement

groups. During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys continued to encourage joint

investigations and projects through federal, state, and local task forces and working groups

established to enhance efforts in many areas including violent crime, organized crime drug

enforcement, and health care fraud.

The LECCs are not only responsible for improving communications, but also for providing

training. LECCs have the ability to identify specific training needs within their districts and to

develop and sponsor training to fill those needs. During Fiscal Year 1999, Law Enforcement

Coordinators throughout the country provided training and assistance in Department priority areas

such as Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), Weed and Seed, health care fraud, and the

Violence Against Women Act. For example:

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, in conjunction with the

Armstrong Atlantic State University of Public Safety, hosted two Telecasts from the Federal Law

Enforcement Training Center on Officer Survival in Drug Investigations: Critical Decision-Making

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in Life Threatening Situations. Telecast I was conducted on August 26, 1999, on “The People, The

Problem, and The Process of Drug Enforcement Violence.” Telecast II was conducted on September

21, 1999, on “Risk Management.”

The United States Attorney for the District of Utah hosted a health care fraud symposium,

the theme of which was, “Bridging the Gap Between Law Enforcement and Health Care Providers.”

More than 150 people representing hospitals, physicians, transportation services, home health care

agencies, nurses, insurance companies, military medical (Tricare) representatives, medical offices,

state regulatory agencies, and law enforcement agencies attended the symposium.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys continued to work closely with federal,

state, and local law enforcement agencies to include forfeitures in federal prosecutions. These assets,

which include real and personal property, were judicially deemed to have been the ill-gotten gains

of criminal activity or otherwise used to facilitate that activity. Through equitable sharing, a portion

of the forfeited assets were returned to state and local law enforcement agencies as a means to further

law enforcement efforts.

The United States Attorneys continued to strengthen and expand their roles with non-law

enforcement entities within their districts during Fiscal Year 1999. The United States Attorneys,

their Assistants, LECC and Victim-Witness Coordinators, and other members of their staffs worked

with community, business, and social service representatives to provide assistance to the victims and

witnesses of crime, to identify and address the particular violent crime problems within their local

communities, to develop and implement prosecution and redevelopment strategies for selected

neighborhood sites under the Weed and Seed program, and to encourage and initiate local activities

to deter both drug use and violent crime among America’s children.

Helping to Put More Police on the Beat

The Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program was created in 1994 as an

initiative to advance community policing and add 100,000 officers to the street. As of the end of

September 1999, the COPS Program had awarded $6 billion in grants to 11,300 law enforcement

agencies to fund the addition of more than 100,000 officers. The United States Attorneys, working

with the Department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, continued to play an

important role during Fiscal Year 1999 in promoting the COPS Program at the local level. For

example, in an effort to address firearm crimes among potential juvenile offenders, the New Haven

Department of Police Services and the State Department of Juvenile Probation in the District of

Connecticut began to identify those probationers attending school who are viewed acutely at risk

for criminal behavior, particularly violent behavior. Part of the officers’ regimen is to maintain

regular contact with these students to monitor their conduct.

In the Southern District of Illinois, the United States Attorney addressed over 400 students

at the Scott Elementary School on crime prevention. Students were selected from various classes

and were addressed on topics such as: “Ten Things Kids Can Do To Stop Violence and Youth In

Action – Planning a Successful Crime Prevention Project.”

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And finally, the Great Lakes Native American Conference was held in August 1999 in Green

Bay, Wisconsin. The conference was hosted by the United States Attorneys’ offices in the Eastern

and Western Districts of Michigan, the District of Minnesota, and the Eastern and Western

Districts of Wisconsin. The 1999 theme for the conference was “Shattering the Circle of Violence:

Reclaiming our Communities.” The conference provided multi-district victim assistance training

that enables federal, state, local, and tribal agencies to develop and provide multi-disciplinary, and

multi-jurisdictional approaches to medical professionals, social service providers, educators, clergy,

law enforcement, prosecutors, judges and probation personnel.

Encouraging the Use of Locality-Based Strategies

Community partnerships play a vital role in the reduction of crime. Through task forces

comprising federal, state, and local law enforcement agents, United States Attorneys have worked

to develop partnerships between members of law enforcement and the community. During Fiscal

Year 1999, the United States Attorneys continued their work in support of Operation Weed and Seed

by making funding available for local Law Enforcement Coordinating Committees to promote Weed

and Seed Programs through training and the publication of brochures. Operation Weed and Seed

is a multi-agency strategy designed to “weed out” violent crime, gang activity, drug use, and drug

trafficking in targeted high-crime neighborhoods by moving in with a wide range of crime and drug

prevention programs and then to “seed” the target areas by restoring these neighborhoods through

social and economic programs that stimulate revitalization.

The Weed and Seed Program continues to be a success story for the development of

community and law enforcement cooperation. United States Attorneys continued to increase their

involvement with the sites in their districts. As of the end of Fiscal Year 1999, 81 districts had used

the United States Attorneys’ Weed and Seed Fund to assist in the development, training, and

community activities of the programs in their districts. Over $3 million has been allocated to the

fund since 1996, and more than $2.7 million has been expended. Representatives of the

Department’s Office of Justice Programs and the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of United

States Attorneys’ Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee Subcommittee met during Fiscal Year

1999 to discuss how to continue the development of the United States Attorneys’ role in community

efforts such as Weed and Seed.

As evident in the growing number of sites and requests for official recognition, Weed and

Seed has become a cornerstone in the development of community programs to reduce delinquency

and violence in our communities. For example, in the Eastern District of California, as part of the

Weed and Seed initiative, a residential house and real property forfeited in a federal narcotics

prosecution was transferred to a social service agency that will operate the property as a shelter for

women and children who are victims of domestic violence. The residence, at an undisclosed rural

location, has been approved for transfer from the United States to a County Sheriff’s Office, which

investigated the former owners’ extensive, sophisticated drug operation there. The County Sheriff’s

Office will transfer the property to a non-profit agency that will establish and operate the shelter.

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Guaranteeing the Rights of Victims and Witnesses

Victim/Witness Assistance

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys continued their mission of guaranteeing

the rights of all victims of crime through training of Assistant United States Attorneys, enhancing

the services provided to crime victims, and better coordinating efforts to address victim issues. For

example, in the Southern District of Indiana, the United States Attorney’s office designed a

demonstration program to assist the victims of bank fraud, civil rights violations, and environmental

and white collar crimes, and the law enforcement professionals handling these cases. Much of the

program focuses on training and providing resources to the victims and law enforcement officers.

Two hate crimes brochures were developed to address some of the major concerns for victims of hate

crime including the nature and volume of hate crimes and where to go for help. A resource list was

also provided in the brochures. Approximately 100 certified law enforcement trainers attended a

training session on hate crimes which was designed to enhance officers’ ability to identify, respond

to, deter, and investigate hate crimes.

Also, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys began conducting quarterly meetings

with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Community Specialists for Outreach and Victim-

Witness Unit in Washington, D.C. Both offices are involved with community activities and the

quarterly sessions provide information on upcoming events, training, and conferences that can be

disseminated to Victim-Witness Coordinators in all United States Attorneys’ offices. These sessions

have enhanced the relationship between the FBI and United States Attorneys’ offices and strengthen

the effectiveness of federal victim and witness assistance and community outreach initiatives.

Development of the National Victim Notification System for victim assistance continued to

move forward during Fiscal Year 1999. The system will provide a seamless approach to providing

services and information to victims involved in the federal judicial system. One joint notification

system shared among the federal agencies responsible for victim assistance will ensure that

consistent, timely, and accurate information is provided to victims. The executive committee

overseeing the project reached several goals during Fiscal Year 1999, including completing a

requirements, alternatives and system concept analysis and preparing a request for procurement.

Emergency Witness Assistance Program

The Emergency Witness Assistance Program (EWAP) continued to be an asset to the United

States Attorneys’ offices during Fiscal Year 1999. Through the use of this program, the United

States Attorneys have provided services for witnesses to leave their town, city, or state, emergency

phone services, temporary subsistence, child or elderly care, or temporary housing/moving expenses.

The program relieves some of the fear and concerns witnesses may have about assisting the

government and gives them peace of mind which ultimately enhances their ability to testify on the

government’s behalf. Over 500 witnesses have been assisted by the program to date. Improvements

to the program continued during Fiscal Year 1999 and an EWAP manual is currently being

developed. This manual will be distributed to all United States Attorneys’ offices when completed

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and will include current procedures, case scenarios for EWAP, cost reduction strategies, a risk

assessment checklist and a list of prohibited expenses. Future plans include training through video

teleconferencing for new United States Attorneys’ Victim-Witness Coordinators, refresher training

for current users, and updates on program uses.

Promoting Organizational Effectiveness

The Executive Office for United States Attorneys along with the Offices of the United States

Attorneys commenced several new initiatives during Fiscal Year 1999 to pursue more efficient and

effective ways of doing business. Advances are being made in updating information technology,

developing new training courses, and in working towards promoting and achieving greater

organizational effectiveness.

Training

Fiscal Year 1999 marked the first year of operation for the National Advocacy Center (NAC).

The NAC is a state-of-the-art training center located on the campus of the University of South

Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. Approximately 80 percent of the programs at the NAC are

conducted by the Executive Office for United States Attorneys’ Office of Legal Education (OLE)

with the remaining 20 percent conducted by the National District Attorneys Association. The

majority of the students attending OLE classes are Justice Department employees, although other

personnel in legal positions throughout the federal government may also attend, space permitting.

OLE trained nearly 11,000 students in 262 courses during Fiscal Year 1999, and an additional 2,300

students were trained through OLE’s distance education programs. During the year, the Executive

Office for United States Attorneys and the Executive Office for United States Trustees (EOUST)

entered into an agreement to permit EOUST to conduct training courses at the NAC.

OLE also hosted staffs from 24 United States Attorneys’ offices and the Executive Office for

United States Attorneys in Fiscal Year 1999 for Management Team Training. In response to an

earlier request of the Attorney General, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys developed

a management training course for United States Attorneys and their senior managers. A course

curriculum was developed based on the “management team” concept. The course was structured to

focus on management techniques, team building skills, and practical approaches to managing United

States Attorneys’ offices. As of the end of Fiscal Year 1999, all United States Attorneys’ offices had

participated in the OLE-sponsored Management Team Training.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys also provided

ethics, standards of conduct, and employee relations training in more than 84 legal education courses

sponsored by OLE. Presentations emphasized the standards of conduct for Department employees,

and addressed important issues considered by the Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility

and Office of Inspector General. In addition, training was conducted in ethics and employee

relations in a number of United States Attorneys’ offices across the country. The Executive Office

for United States Attorneys received an award from the Office of Government Ethics for outstanding

achievement in developing and managing a meaningful ethics program.

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Also in Fiscal Year 1999, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys developed and

presented a seminar entitled “Train the Trainers for the Prevention of Sexual Harassment.” This

seminar provided information and guidance to employees from the United States Attorneys’ offices

who were nominated to serve as trainers to address the recent United States Supreme Court decisions

on sexual harassment. The trainers, in turn, went back to their offices and presented a prepared

training outline to employees. The Executive Office for United States Attorneys and each United

States Attorney’s office was required to provide this training to all employees to improve education

on sexual harassment issues. The Executive Office for United States Attorneys also initiated the

development of a video on the Prevention of Sexual Harassment. This video will help educate

employees and supervisors on their rights and responsibilities regarding the prevention of sexual

harassment in the federal workplace.

Information Technology

Information technology has become key to the effective management of an organization.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys was involved in a number

of information technology improvement projects to assist the United States Attorneys’ offices in

their work. Representatives from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys continued to

participate in the Justice Performance Review’s Electronic Document Exchange (EDE) Lab and

produced all quarterly reports and briefings for the EDE Lab. The EDE Lab was established to

examine the nature and scope of electronic document exchange in the litigation setting.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys also replaced

13,200 outdated personal computer workstations and trained the same number of United States

Attorney office staff on their new Pentium II workstations. The users are now equipped with

sufficient memory to run current versions of software such as the Corel Legal Suite and on-line legal

research software. Outdated network devices were also replaced with new, faster switches.

Additionally, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys developed a plan to replace 420

servers, the operating system, and an antiquated email system with the Department of Justice JCON

II standard server hardware operating and email systems. The new components will include larger

Compaq servers, the Windows NT server operating system, and Microsoft Exchange/Outlook email

system.

The development of a data warehousing system to facilitate the retrieval of case data entered

by the United States Attorneys’ offices through the LIONS case management system was

commenced in Fiscal Year 1999. Ultimately, this will be the primary system available for

conducting statistical and trends analyses for the United States Attorneys’ civil and criminal

caseloads.

Also, the United States Attorneys’ offices successfully completed a review and update of

their LIONS systems locally to ensure that full statutory citations, down to the numerous and detailed

subsections of Sections 922 and 924 of Title 18 of the United States Code, were included in the

system in all cases where a Section 922 or 924 firearms offense was charged. While information

from the system was already available for these cases, statutory citations down to the numerous and

detailed subsections of Sections 922 and 924 were entered, where needed. The extensive review and

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update process was completed by all United States Attorneys’ offices in mid-October 1999. Even

though the process continued for a brief time at the start of Fiscal Year 2000, only those cases or case

activities which actually occurred in Fiscal Year 1999 were extracted from the systems locally and

included in our Fiscal Year 1999 data. As a result of the successful review process and some system

modifications, case data can now be produced for the numerous and detailed subsections of Sections

922 and 924 starting in Fiscal Year 1999 and for subsequent years.

The Executive Office for United States Attorneys also worked to streamline and modernize

personnel support processes in United States Attorneys’ offices by posting on the Executive Office

for United States Attorneys’ Intranet a variety of procedural documents, a newsletter, and model

position descriptions, recruitment modules, and performance work plans, to foster effective and

efficient hiring, compensation, and performance management.

Paying Their Way

The United States Attorneys’ offices had a direct and positive impact on the federal budget

through their aggressive federal debt collection efforts, affirmative civil enforcement litigation

endeavors, skillful defense of monetary claims filed against the United States and utilization of asset

forfeiture laws. As noted later in the report, the United States Attorneys’ Fiscal Year 1999 civil and

criminal collection efforts alone equaled 2.03 times the amount of the entire United States Attorneys’

operating budget nationwide, and 2.5 times the amount of the entire nationwide budget when

estimated asset forfeiture recoveries are included.

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II. CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS

United States District Court

The United States Attorneys’ offices investigate and prosecute a wide range of criminal activities.

The United States Attorneys are called upon to respond to changing priorities, and to become involved in

various crime reduction programs. During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys continued in their

longstanding commitment to address drug and violent crimes. Within the violent crime category, the

United States Attorneys addressed the continuing, illegal use of firearms by those who perpetrate crimes

and accompanying acts of violence in our communities. Drug prosecutions continued to be a priority of

the United States Attorneys, with particular emphasis on the operations of large drug organizations. The

Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces targeted these groups, and made significant progress

during Fiscal Year 1999. The United States Attorneys also continued to work with other Department

components to secure our nation’s borders. Some of the other special emphasis areas included child abuse

and exploitation, securities fraud, health care fraud, and civil rights violations.

The United States Attorneys’ offices handle most of the criminal cases prosecuted by the

Department of Justice. The United States Attorneys receive most of their criminal referrals, or “matters,”

from federal investigative agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau

of Investigation, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and

Firearms, the United States Customs Service, the United States Secret Service, and others. They may also

receive criminal matters from state and local investigative agencies or become aware of criminal activities

in the course of investigating or prosecuting other cases. Occasionally, criminal violations are reported

to the United States Attorneys by private citizens. After careful consideration of each criminal matter, the

United States Attorney decides the appropriateness of bringing criminal charges and, when deemed

appropriate, initiates prosecution. Except for misdemeanor offenses and instances in which an alleged

offender waives the right to a grand jury indictment, the United States Attorney presents evidence against

an alleged offender to a grand jury. The grand jurors decide whether to return an indictment. If an

indictment is returned, the United States Attorney then presents the criminal charges in open court at the

arraignment of the defendant.

Although, historically, the majority of criminal defendants enter a plea of guilty prior to trial, the

United States Attorneys must always be prepared to go to trial. Consistent preparation for trial minimizes

the risk of dismissal for noncompliance with the Speedy Trial Act and strengthens the government’s

position in negotiations with defense counsel for a guilty plea. When a guilty plea is not obtainable, a trial

becomes necessary. The United States Attorney then presents factual evidence to convince the jury, or the

judge in a non-jury trial, of the defendant’s guilt. If the defendant is convicted, the United States Attorney

defends the conviction at post-trial hearings and appeals. The United States Attorneys’ offices handle most

criminal appeals at the intermediate appellate level. After filing a brief, the United States Attorney may

be required to participate in oral argument before the United States Court of Appeals. If there is a further

appeal, the United States Attorney may be called upon to assist a Department litigating division and the

Solicitor General in preparing the case for review by the United States Supreme Court.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices received 106,752 criminal matters,

an increase of 7,017, or seven percent, in the number of criminal referrals made by law enforcement

agencies, when compared to the prior year. See Criminal Chart 1 below, and Table 11. Matters received

includes immediate declinations in addition to later declinations and files initiated in any court.

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The offices reviewed and immediately or later declined a total of 35,671 criminal matters during

the year. See Criminal Chart 2 below, and Tables 18 and 19. As reflected on Tables 18 and 19, the reasons

most commonly reported for the declination of these matters included weak or insufficient evidence, the

suspect to be prosecuted by another authority, lack of criminal intent, office policy, no federal offense

committed, agency request, and minimal federal interest.

As of the end of Fiscal Year 1999, a total of 67,608 criminal matters were pending, an increase of

1,435, or two percent, when compared to the prior year. Of these, 8,324, or 12 percent, were matters where

the defendant was a fugitive, was in a Pre-trial Diversion Program, or was unknown. See Table 14. Of

all pending matters, 46,716, or 69 percent, had been pending for 24 months or less, and 54,765, or 81

percent, for 36 months or less, as of the end of the fiscal year.

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The grand jury, a body of 16 to 23 citizens, functions to determine whether there is probable cause

to believe that a person has committed a criminal offense. An Assistant United States Attorney’s

responsibility is to advise the grand jury on the law and to present evidence for the grand jury’s

consideration. The grand jurors decide whether to return an indictment. In instances where more

information is required, the grand jury can issue subpoenas in order to obtain additional evidence. The

United States Attorneys’ offices handled a total of 32,474 criminal matters during Fiscal Year 1999 in

which grand jury proceedings were conducted, an increase of 1,740, or six percent, over the previous year.

See Table 11. This increase in grand jury proceedings continues the reversal of a decline seen in these

proceedings between Fiscal Years 1992 and 1994. Criminal Chart 3 below reflects the number of matters

in which grand jury proceedings were conducted over the past ten years.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices filed 50,779 criminal cases against

71,560 defendants in United States District Court. See Criminal Chart 4 below, and Table 1. This

represents a seven percent increase in cases filed and a seven percent increase in defendants filed when

compared with the prior year, and represents the highest number of cases filed over the past ten years. The

largest increase in the number of cases filed during Fiscal Year 1999 was in the immigration program

category, which showed an increase of 15 percent in the number of cases filed, when compared to the prior

year and an increase of 67 percent over Fiscal Year 1997. Large increases were also observed in the

number of Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) cases filed, which increased by 45

percent over the prior year, and the number of violent crime cases filed, which increased by seven percent,

when compared to the prior year. Cases filings also grew in the areas of health care and securities fraud,

which showed 16 and 22 percent increases respectively.

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See Criminal Chart 12 for a display of criminal cases filed by program category, or case type, for

Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999. Criminal Charts 4 through 12 do not include United States Magistrate Court

or appellate cases.

A total of 46,423 cases against 64,517 defendants were also terminated during Fiscal Year 1999,

representing an increase of 14 percent in the number of cases terminated and 11 percent in the number of

defendants terminated when compared to the prior year. See Criminal Chart 5 below. A total of 4,083,

or six percent, of the terminated defendants were disposed of by trial. See Criminal Chart 6 below, and

Table 2.

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The trend seen over the past several years of an increasing number of defendants pleading guilty, thereby

avoiding trial, continued during Fiscal Year 1999. During the year, 4,083, or six percent of all terminated

defendants, were disposed of by trial, a decrease of three percent when compared to the prior year. The number

and percentage of defendants disposed of by trial during Fiscal Year 1999 represents the lowest number over the

past ten years. Defendants in civil rights prosecutions were the most likely to go to trial, with 25 percent of all

terminated defendants disposed of by trial. This is followed by violent crime defendants, with 12 percent of all

terminated defendants disposed of by trial.

Of the 64,517 defendants terminated during Fiscal Year 1999, 57,876, or 90 percent, either pled guilty or

were found guilty. See Criminal Chart 7 below, and Table 3. This rate of conviction represents more than a one

percent increase over that of Fiscal Year 1998, and represents the highest conviction rate over the past several years.

The highest conviction rate of any program category is seen in immigration cases, where 95 percent of all

defendants terminated during Fiscal Year 1999 were convicted.

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During Fiscal Year 1999, a total of 54,438, or 94 percent, of all convicted defendants pled guilty prior to

or during trial. This represents a one percent increase in the percentage of convicted defendants who pled guilty

when compared to the prior year, and continues the trend of additional defendants pleading guilty and fewer

defendants being disposed of by trial.

Of the 57,876 criminal defendants who either pled or were found guilty during the fiscal year, 45,470, or

79 percent, received prison sentences. This represents the highest number and percentage of guilty defendants to

receive prison sentences over the past several years, and a notable increase over Fiscal Year 1992, when 71 percent

of guilty defendants were sentenced to prison. Significant increases in the percentage of guilty defendants being

sentenced to prison have occurred in the following program areas: official corruption which increased from 43

percent in Fiscal Year 1992 to 49 percent in Fiscal Year 1999; white collar crime which increased from 50 percent

in Fiscal Year 1992 to 56 percent in Fiscal Year 1999; organized crime which increased from 63 percent in Fiscal

Year 1992 to 70 percent in Fiscal Year 1999; and immigration which increased from 65 percent in Fiscal Year 1992

to 81 percent in Fiscal Year 1999. A total of 286 guilty defendants received sentences of life in prison. See

Criminal Charts 8 and 9 below.

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As of the end of Fiscal Year 1999, 52,055 criminal cases against 80,942 defendants were pending.

This represents an increase of five percent in the number of cases pending and four percent in the number

of defendants pending, when compared to the prior year. See Criminal Chart 10 below, and Table 1.

Of the 52,055 pending criminal cases, 31,947, or 61 percent, had been pending for 24 months or

less, and 36,267, or 70 percent, had been pending for 36 months or less. See Table 15. In 27 percent of

pending cases the defendant was a fugitive, was in a mental institution, or was in a Pre-trial Diversion

Program. As Criminal Chart 11 below shows, the percentage of pending cases where the defendant is a

fugitive is greatest in those cases that have remained pending for several years.

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See Criminal Chart 13 below for a display of pending criminal cases by program category, or case

type, as of the end of Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999. Criminal Chart 13 does not include cases pending in

United States Magistrate Court or pending appellate cases.

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All Drugs (31.83%)

Interstate Theft (0.49%)

Labor Management (0.30%)

White Collar Crime (14.11%)

Theft (3.37%)

Indian Offenses (0.28%)

All Other Criminal (6.67%)

Civil Rights Prosecutions (0.18%)

Regulatory Offenses (4.02%)

Internal Security (0.03%)

Immigration (21.32%)

Violent Crime (14.57%)

Official Corruption (1.11%)

Assimilated Crimes (1.32%)

Organized Crime (0.42%)

FY 1998 – Total Cases Filed 47,277

All Drugs (32.72%)

Interstate Theft (0.45%)

Labor Management (0.19%)

White Collar Crime (12.91%)

Theft (3.09%)

Indian Offenses (0.25%)

All Other Criminal (7.16%)

Civil Rights Prosecutions (0.20%)

Regulatory Offenses (3.51%)

Internal Security (0.03%)

Immigration (22.80%)

Violent Crime (14.56%)

Official Corruption (1.05%)

Assimilated Crimes (0.64%)

Organized Crime (0.41%)

FY 1999 – Total Cases Filed 50,779

CRIMINAL CHART 12 – Criminal Cases Filed by Program Category

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All Drugs (39.63%)

White Collar Crime (14.34%)

Theft (2.84%)

Indian Offenses (0.19%)

All Other Criminal (10.82%)

Civil Rights Prosecutions (0.15%)

Regulatory Offenses (4.12%)

Internal Security (0.06%)

Immigration (10.23%)

Labor Management (0.24%)

Interstate Theft (0.65%)

Violent Crime (13.62%)

Official Corruption (1.12%)

Assimilated Crimes (1.20%)

Organized Crime (0.79%)

FY 1998 – Total Cases Pending 49,768

All Drugs (39.72%)

White Collar Crime (13.59%)

Theft (2.80%)

Indian Offenses (0.18%)

All Other Criminal (10.62%)

Civil Rights Prosecutions (0.16%)

Regulatory Offenses (3.87%)

Internal Security (0.06%)

Immigration (11.11%)

Labor Management (0.14%)

Interstate Theft (0.57%)

Violent Crime (14.30%)

Official Corruption (1.11%)

Assimilated Crimes (1.02%)

Organized Crime (0.75%)

FY 1999 – Total Cases Pending 52,055

CRIMINAL CHART 13 – Criminal Cases Pending by Program Category

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United States Magistrate Court

In addition to those criminal cases filed in the United States District Court, the United States

Attorneys also handle a considerable criminal caseload which is filed in the United States Magistrate

Courts. Congress created the judicial office of Federal Magistrate in 1968. The District Court judges of

each district appoint Magistrate judges, who discharge many of the ancillary duties of the District Court

judges. The utilization of Magistrate judges varies from district to district in response to local conditions

and changing caseloads.

Magistrate judges are authorized by statute to perform a variety of judicial duties as assigned by

the District Courts, including misdemeanor trials, conducting preliminary hearings and entering rulings

or recommended dispositions on pretrial motions. Spurred by the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990,

expanding caseloads, and tightening fiscal constraints, the District Courts continue to find new, innovative

ways to use Magistrate judges. The flexibility of the Magistrate judge system was further enhanced in

1996 by the Federal Courts Improvement Act which abolished for certain petty offenses the requirement

that defendants consent to adjudication by a Magistrate judge and allowed defendants in other

misdemeanor cases to give their consent orally. In order to meet the dictates of the Speedy Trial Act,

courts are referring an increasing number of motions, hearings, and conferences in felony cases to

Magistrate judges.

In addition to those cases filed and handled in United States District Court, the United States

Attorneys filed criminal cases against an additional 20,522 defendants in United States Magistrate Courts

during Fiscal Year 1999, an increase of ten percent when compared to the prior year. See Criminal Chart

14 below, and Table 1. A total of 16,964 defendants were also terminated during the year, for an increase

of 20 percent over Fiscal Year 1998. See Criminal Chart 15 below. As of the end of Fiscal Year 1999,

criminal cases against 18,100 defendants were pending in United States Magistrate Courts, an increase of

three percent over the number pending at the end of Fiscal Year 1998. See Table 1. Petty offenses handled

in United States Magistrate Court are not included in this data.

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Of the defendants terminated in Magistrate Courts during Fiscal Year 1999, 1,117, or seven percent,

were terminated after a court or jury trial. See Criminal Chart 16 below, and Table 2A. This represents

an increase of 303 defendants disposed of by trial, or 37 percent, when compared to the prior year, and

continues the sharp reversal of a trend seen in recent years of a decreasing number of trials in Magistrate

Courts.

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District of Columbia Superior Court

As noted earlier, the United States Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia also bears

responsibility for the prosecution of criminal cases in the District of Columbia Superior Court. The

Superior Court Division of the United States Attorney’s office handles the prosecution of criminal

violations of the District of Columbia Code committed by adults and juveniles charged as adults. The

Division began the year with seven sections – Misdemeanor, Grand Jury/Intake, General Felony, Violent

Crime, Homicide, Community Prosecution, Sex Offense -- and the Domestic Violence Unit. During Fiscal

Year 1999, the Division underwent a reorganization in an effort to expand the office’s Community

Prosecution (CP) initiative. The CP concept involves the community, the United States Attorney’s office

and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) working closely together to reduce crime. The Division

combined the resources of the Violent Crime, Homicide and the existing CP Sections to form six District

Sections, one section for each of MPD’s seven districts (the Second and Fourth Districts are combined as

one section) to collectively form the Community Prosecution Major Crimes Section. As a result of the

reorganization, the Violent Crime Section no longer exists and the Homicide Section was downsized.

By the end of Fiscal Year 1999, the Superior Court Division consisted of six sections and one unit:

the Homicide, Community Prosecution Major Crimes, and Sex Offense Sections, which are organized to

handle vertical prosecution of their caseloads; the Misdemeanor Trial, Grand Jury/Intake, and General

Felony Sections; and the Domestic Violence Unit. While violent crime and weapon offenses continued

to be the primary focus of the Superior Court Division, the workload of the Division reflects cases brought

as a result of a variety of initiatives including Community Prosecution, Operation Ceasefire, and Domestic

Violence.

The following data details the Superior Court Division’s caseload during Fiscal Year 1999. This

data is not included in the other charts and tables contained in this report.

Cases Filed Cases Terminated

Number

Percent of

Total Number

Percent of

Total

Felony 9,196 37.4% 6,406 34.5%

Misdemeanor 15,397 62.6% 12,138 65.5%

Total 24,593 18,544

Cases Disposed of by Jury Trials

Number of

Trials

Number

Guilty

Percent

Guilty

Number

Not Guilty

Percent Not

Guilty

Number of

Mistrials

Percent of

Mistrials

Felony 383 253 66.1% 123 32.1% 7 1.8%

Misdemeanor 19 8 42.1% 11 57.9% 0 0.0%

Total 402 261 65.0% 134 33.3% 7 1.7%

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Cases Disposed of by Court Trials

Number of

Trials

Number

Guilty

Percent

Guilty

Number

Not Guilty

Percent Not

Guilty

Number of

Mistrials

Percent of

Mistrials

Felony 119 77 64.7% 42 35.3% 0 0.0%

Misdemeanor 923 546 59.2% 377 40.8% 0 0.0%

Total 1,042 623 59.8% 419 40.2% 0 0.0%

Case Dispositions

Number of

Guilty Pleas

Number of

Dismissals

Felony 3,438 2,466

Misdemeanor 4,251 6,945

Total 7,689 9,411

Convictions

Number of

Convictions

Conviction

Rate

Felony 3,768 58.8%

Misdemeanor 4,805 39.6%

Total 8,573 46.2%

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Priority Criminal Prosecution Areas

In carrying out their criminal prosecution responsibilities, the United States Attorneys are guided

by the law enforcement and special prosecution priorities of the Attorney General. Such priorities are

designated by the Attorney General to focus national attention on the prosecution of certain categories of

cases. Some of the Fiscal Year 1999 priority program prosecution areas are addressed separately below.

International Crime

With technological improvements in communication and the increased ease of trans-continental

travel drawing us rapidly into the Twenty-first Century, the possibilities of criminal enterprises expanding

to encompass the world increase dramatically. During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys,

through the Department of Justice, continued to work closely with the Department of State and the

Department of the Treasury in the fight against international crime. In May 1998, the Department assisted

in developing the International Crime Control Strategy, an innovative action plan that provides a

coordinated, effective, long-term attack on international crime. The Strategy includes eight broad goals,

including combating smuggling, countering international financial crime, and responding to emerging

threats like high-tech and computer-related crime.

International crime cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during the year

include:

In the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, YBM Magnex International, Inc., of

Canada, pled guilty to an information charging the corporation with conspiracy to commit

mail and securities fraud, and was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay

a $3 million fine, a $400 special assessment, and restitution. YBM Magnex was created

by Russian organized crime figures working from Budapest, Hungary. They manipulated

the company’s stock price through a series of false reports and misrepresentations about

company profits. The stock was traded on the Alberta and Toronto Stock Exchanges until

August 1998, when Canadian authorities suspended the trading. The company is now

operating under the management of a receiver appointed by the Court of Queen’s Bench,

Calgary, Alberta.

In the District of Rhode Island, a defendant was sentenced to 20 years in prison

for attempting to extort 1,000,000 pesos (approximately $300,000) from Automation

Software, Inc, a Rhode Island-based company which the defendant co-founded. In

February 1994, the defendant murdered the company president while the two were on a

business trip in Queretaro, Mexico. He then flew to Rhode Island and told company

officials that the president had been kidnaped and that he had been told to pay ransom of

1,000,000 pesos or the victim would be killed. However, company officials learned that

the victim's body had already been found in Queretaro. To prove the extortion at trial,

federal prosecutors had to prove the murder as well, thus establishing that the kidnaping

story was a fabrication. The defendant was also sentenced to a 19-year prison term in

Mexico for murder.

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International and Domestic Terrorism

The threat of terrorists, while widely experienced in much of the world, is a relatively new threat

to communities within the United States. The United States Attorneys have made a strong statement in

their vigorous prosecution of those who, through their terrorist acts, threaten the peace and well-being of

American citizens and the security of our nation. Under the Department’s guidance, these individuals have

been brought to justice and the justice meted out has been certain, swift and severe.

At the request of the Attorney General, each United States Attorney designated an experienced

Assistant United States Attorney during Fiscal Year 1996 to serve as a point of contact on domestic

terrorism and to gather information relating to domestic terrorism activity. These focal points in each

district continued to ensure that the Department’s goal of effective investigation and prosecution of

terrorist acts was pursued. Further, senior Assistant United States Attorneys from nearly all United States

Attorneys’ offices have attended Crisis Management training, along with Federal Bureau of Investigation

and state and local emergency response officials.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys’

Domestic Terrorism Subcommittee continued to work closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and

other federal investigative agencies to enhance the effectiveness of task forces comprised of federal, state,

and local law enforcement agents.

International and domestic terrorism cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys

during the year include:

In the Northern District of Illinois, a Puerto Rican independence activist and

former university professor in Chicago and Puerto Rico, was sentenced to four years and

three months in prison for conspiring to plant two pipe bombs outside a military recruiting

center in Chicago in 1992. A co-conspirator disarmed one of the bombs before it was

placed at the center's front door. The second bomb malfunctioned but sparked a fire that

destroyed a military vehicle.

In the Southern District of New York, a defendant was sentenced to eight years

in prison for aiding and abetting his brother to flee the United States after his brother

participated in the February 26, 1993, bombing of the World Trade Center. A jury

convicted the defendant on May 27, 1997, after a one-week trial. According to the

evidence, the defendant drove his brother to JFK Airport on March 2, 1993, for a one-way

flight to Saudi Arabia, knowing that his brother had taken part in the World Trade Center

bombing, which killed six people, injured more than 1,000, and caused more than $500

million in damage.

In the Western District of Washington, a defendant was sentenced to three years

and one month in prison on four felony counts of sending threatening e-mail messages via

the Internet to federal judges and others. The charges were based on death threats the

defendant posted on the Internet naming two federal judges, and on an e-mail threat he sent

directly to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. The conviction and sentence are the

culmination of a two-year investigation into anonymous threats posted on the Internet and

a scheme to assassinate government officials known as "Assassination Politics."

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Violent Crime

The number of violent crimes committed in 1998, as reported by local law enforcement to the

Federal Bureau of Investigation for its Uniform Crime Report, decreased for the sixth year in a row and

was the lowest recorded since 1987. The number of offenses reported during 1998, when compared to

1997, equals a six percent reduction. Comparing 1998 to 1992 yields a 21 percent reduction in violent

crimes. Preliminary information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the first six months of 1999

show an additional ten percent decrease in violent crime when compared to the same period in 1998.

While this is just one measure, it is an indication that federal law enforcement officials working in

cooperation with state and local officials is having a positive result in our nation’s communities. The

United States Attorneys are committed to building upon this success, and to continue to reduce violent

crime with aggressive prosecution of these criminals.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys

continued to prosecute the most violent criminal offenders

under the Attorney General’s Anti-Violent Crime Initiative and

through use of the enhanced criminal provisions of the Violent

Crime Control Act of 1994. The United States Attorneys filed

a total of 7,392 criminal cases against 9,175 violent offenders

during the year, representing a seven percent increase in the

number of cases filed and a five percent increase in the number

of defendants filed when compared to the prior year. The

7,392 violent crime cases filed represented 15 percent of all

criminal cases filed by the United States Attorneys in Fiscal

Year 1999. During the year, 13 percent of all criminal

attorneys across the nation were devoted to violent crime cases.

A total of 6,539 violent crime cases against 8,404 defendants

were also terminated in Fiscal Year 1999, representing a six percent increase in the number of cases

terminated and a six percent increase in the number of defendants terminated when compared to the prior

year. Of those defendants whose cases were terminated during the year, 87 percent were convicted. This

represents the highest conviction rate for violent crime over the last several years. Eighty-nine percent of

all guilty defendants were sentenced to prison. One hundred of the guilty defendants were sentenced to

life in prison.

The Violent Crime program category was established in Fiscal Year 1992, when the Executive

Office for United States Attorneys started classifying case and defendant data by program categories, or

criminal case types. In Fiscal Year 1992, greater emphasis was also placed on the prosecution of violent

crime. This resulted in a change in the way some criminal cases, primarily narcotics cases, were classified

among program categories. Those cases involving narcotics that would otherwise be classified as narcotics

cases based on the statutes charged were classified as violent crime cases if the defendants were also

charged with a firearms offense or other violent crime, such as murder. Thus, beginning in Fiscal Year

1992, some narcotics cases or cases in which narcotics offenses were charged were classified under and

rolled into the Violent Crime program category data.

Beginning in Fiscal Year 1996, in an effort to eliminate confusion and display both violent crime

and narcotics case data, Table 3 of this report was broken out further to display those narcotics cases

included under the Violent Crime program category. This display of the case data allows users of Table

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3 to see all narcotics cases, without double counting cases and without losing information on an equally

important criminal prosecution area, violent crime. As shown on Table 3, a total of 340 cases filed against

716 defendants during Fiscal Year 1999 were classified under the Violent Crime program category, but

included narcotics charges.

The Violent Crime program category consists of the sum of the various violent crime case

categories. Those categories, including the number of cases filed during Fiscal Year 1999 and the

percentage of change from Fiscal Year 1998, are as follows:

Case Category

Cases Filed in

Fiscal Year 1999

Percent Change from

Fiscal Year 1998

Violent Indian Offenses 620 -8.9%

Violent Crime -- Non-OCDETF Drugs 278 57.1%

Violent Crime -- OCDETF Drugs 62 -68.4%

Violent Crime -- Organized Crime 57 -21.9%

Violent Crime -- Financial Institution Fraud 25 0.0%

Violent Crime – Other 6,350 10.7%

Violent Crime Total 7,392 7.3%

Some examples of successful violent crime prosecutions handled by the United States Attorneys

during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the Central District of California, a private investigator hired by defense

attorneys in a capital murder case, pled guilty to being an accessory-after-the-fact in a

federal murder-for-hire conspiracy. The murder defendant, who was awaiting trial in state

court for killing a California Highway Patrol officer, used information the defendant gave

him to conspire from inside a county jail to kill a witness in Texas who had provided

information leading to the murder defendant's arrest. He previously pled guilty to federal

murder-for-hire charges and also agreed to plead guilty to the state murder charge. He was

sentenced to 24 years and five months in federal prison.

In the District of Connecticut, in a second round of prosecutions against leaders

and members of the Almighty Latin King Nation in Bridgeport, New Haven, and Norwalk,

Connecticut, some of the highest ranking gang members were sentenced on racketeering

and related charges. The former president of the New Haven Chapter received five

concurrent life sentences for the murder of an innocent bystander, attempted murder,

Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) charges, RICO conspiracy, and drug

offenses. The former executive crown vice president was sentenced to 33 years in prison

for organizing and directing a drive-by shooting and other crimes. Another defendant was

sentenced to 30 years for his leadership role in the largest Latin Kings’ heroin operation in

the state and for being an accessory to murder. A fourth defendant, who held the third

highest position in the gang, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for planning and executing

acts of violence and retaliation. Thirty-nine Latin Kings have been convicted since March

1997. Thirty-three others were sentenced between 1994 and 1995.

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In the District of New Mexico, a defendant was sentenced to 29 and a half years

in prison for his involvement in the disappearance and murder of a victim from Santa Fe,

New Mexico. The defendant pled guilty to a two-count information charging him with

carjacking resulting in death and commission of a crime of violence with a firearm. He also

pled guilty to two counts of a four-count indictment charging interstate transportation of

a stolen motor vehicle, credit card fraud, and production of false identification documents.

The defendant rented a vehicle in New Mexico with a stolen credit card and a fake New

Mexico driver's license he had made from stolen identification documents. The defendant

admitted at his plea hearing that he shot the victim in the head and stole his vehicle. The

victim's body was recovered in Modale, Iowa.

In the Southern District of Ohio, a defendant was sentenced to 25 years in prison

for a carjacking that left the victim with a broken neck and back. The defendant was

convicted after a two-day trial. The defendant had approached the victim outside the

victim's apartment, ordered him at gunpoint to drive to a nearby bank and withdraw cash,

then forced him to drive to a park. The defendant then pushed the victim over the side of

a 50-foot cliff and stole his 1988 Corvette. The sentence was the maximum possible

statutory penalty for carjacking.

In the Eastern District of Virginia, a jury in Norfolk, Virginia, returned a death

sentence against a kingpin of a multi-state crack cocaine ring, for his role in three murders

committed to promote and protect his narcotics operation. During the trial and sentencing,

evidence showed that the defendant used firearms and other weapons and engaged in a

pattern of violent criminal activity, including murders, shootings, and assaults, as well as

threats of violence to collect drug debts, intimidate potential witnesses, and ensure the

continued profitability of the conspiracy. The investigation was conducted by the Norfolk

FBI/Portsmouth Police Department Violent Crimes Task Force, with assistance from the

Suffolk Police Department.

Firearms Prosecutions

Violent crime reduction has been a priority of the Attorney General and the Administration, and

on March 20, 1999, the President issued a Directive to the Attorney General and the Secretary of the

Treasury to build upon the reductions in violent crime of the last six years. The Attorney General and the

Secretary of the Treasury were asked to develop an integrated firearms violence reduction strategy that

incorporates the proven measures and innovative approaches being used throughout the country. In

response to the Directive, United States Attorneys and federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’

Special Agents in Charge are working together to implement plans in response to the Attorney General and

the Secretary of the Treasury’s request. Each action plan will be based on the problem of firearms violence

in the district, the legal tools and firearms-related information resources available in the district, and will

include existing and newly-developed strategies. Each district established a point of contact for the

Integrated Firearms Violence Reduction Strategy.

The United States Attorneys rely on stiff federal penalties and the joint efforts of federal, state and

local law enforcement agencies to prosecute firearms offenders successfully. During Fiscal Year 1999,

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the United States Attorneys charged a total of 7,057 defendants with offenses under 18 U.S.C. 922 or 924

in 5,500 criminal cases. The 7,057 defendants included those charged in cases that were handled by the

United States Attorneys’ offices as purely firearms cases, and defendants charged with firearms offenses

in any other criminal cases, such as narcotics cases, organized crime cases, violent crime in Indian Country

cases, or other violent crime cases such as bank robberies.

The United States Attorneys classify criminal cases in their local case management system by

selecting a “program category” that best defines the overall nature of a case. From Fiscal Year 1992

through Fiscal Year 1998, Table 3 of this report displayed data only for those firearms cases and defendants

that the United States Attorneys classified under one of the three Violent Crime–Project Triggerlock

program categories. This data, however, did not include cases and defendants that were classified under

another criminal program category–such as Drug Offenses, Organized Crime, Violent Crime in Indian

Country–but where the defendant was also charged with a firearms offense. As a result, the data included

on Table 3 of prior year reports under-represented the number of defendants who were charged with

firearms offenses, and the work of the United States Attorneys to enforce our federal firearms laws.

Beginning this year, a new Table 3A has been added to this report, in an effort to present a full accounting

of the volume of defendants charged with firearms offenses. Table 3A displays information on any and

all criminal cases where a defendant was charged with a firearms offense under any provision of the

primary federal firearms statutes, 18 U.S.C. 922 or 924. Also, Table 3 has been modified to eliminate the

separate displays of data for the three Violent Crime–Project Triggerlock program categories. As noted

already, that data under-represents the overall number of defendants charged with firearms offenses. The

Violent Crime–Project Triggerlock program category data has been included in the Other Violent Crime

program categories.

Also, beginning this year, the United States Attorneys’ case management system will be used as

the one source for firearms prosecution data. The separate, manual database that was used by the

Executive Office for United States Attorneys to track firearms prosecution data in the past has been

eliminated. Thus, comparisons of firearms data included in this report should not be made with data from

the separate, manual database that was included in this narrative in prior year reports.

Some examples of successful firearms prosecutions handled by the United States Attorneys during

Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the District of Nevada, following his jury conviction, a career criminal, who had

seven prior felony convictions, was sentenced to 23 years and four months in prison for

being a felon in possession of a firearm. At the time of his arrest by Bureau of Alcohol,

Tobacco and Firearms’ agents, the defendant was under investigation by the Las Vegas

Metropolitan Police Department Repeat Offenders Project for a series of residential

burglaries, including one in which shots were fired at the homeowner. Two of the three

firearms possessed by the defendant were stolen, including a semiautomatic version of the

.45 caliber "Tommy Gun."

In the District of South Carolina, a defendant was sentenced to 52 years and three

months in prison, without parole, for robbing two post offices, using or carrying a firearm

during and in relation to the post office robberies, and being a felon in possession of a

firearm. The defendant was tried in absentia after he escaped from the Anderson City Jail

on the eve of trial. He was later captured in San Diego and is presently awaiting trial on

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escape and carjacking charges.

In the Western District of Tennessee, following a jury conviction, a defendant was

sentenced to life plus a consecutive five years in prison on Hobbs Act robbery and firearms

charges stemming from his robbery of a Loomis Fargo armored car guard. The defendant

ambushed the guard and shot him at point blank range in the back of the head. The guard

survived the shooting but was left a paraplegic. The defendant had eight prior state

convictions for armed robbery and had been on parole less than two months before the

armored car robbery.

Violence Against Women

Domestic violence is a continuing threat to the very fabric of America’s families. The statistics on

domestic violence are staggering. The Department of Justice’s November 1998 study, Prevalence,

Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against

Women Survey, found that of women who reported being raped or physically assaulted since the age of

18, three quarters were victimized by a current or former husband, cohabitating partner, date or boyfriend.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report, husbands or boyfriends were

identified as the murderers of 32 percent of female victims slain in 1998. These statistics and the

devastation brought to the families involved in domestic violence mandate continued vigilance in pursuing

the assailants and bringing them to justice. The Violence Against Women Act, designed to improve the

federal response to domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking, established federal offenses in cases

where an abuser crosses state or tribal lines and commits domestic violence or crosses state or tribal lines

to violate a protection order or to injure, harass, or intimidate another. These federal remedies are

important tools in cases where movement across state lines makes state prosecution difficult and where

state law penalties may not be enough. In addition, amendments to the Gun Control Act that prohibit

firearm possession by a person subject to a qualifying protection order, or by a person convicted of a

qualifying misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, are important tools to ensure that dangerous persons

do not possess firearms.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices continued their aggressive training

and education efforts focusing on the federal domestic violence laws. Districts hosted district-specific and

multi-district conferences to ensure that the federal domestic violence laws are known as an available tool

for local law enforcement officials. These efforts have resulted in over 201 indictments and 140

convictions to date. The partnership between federal, state, local and tribal components remains a critical

element in the effort to stem this nationwide crime problem.

Successful prosecutions handled by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the District of Idaho, a defendant became the first Idahoan sentenced for

interstate travel to commit domestic violence under the 1994 Violence Against Women

Act. The defendant was sentenced to two years and six months in prison, three years of

supervised release, and a $2,000 fine after he pled guilty to charges of battering his

domestic partner and burglary with intent to commit assault with a deadly weapon. The

defendant was charged under the Violence Against Women Act because he crossed Indian

Country boundaries with the intent to commit the battery.

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In the District of the Northern Mariana Islands’ first Mann Act prosecution, two

defendants were each sentenced to two years and nine months in prison following their jury

conviction on charges of international transportation for illegal sexual activity. The

defendants, owners of two karaoke clubs in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern

Mariana Islands (CNMI), were charged with bringing at least six women from China for

purposes of prostitution. Three victims, who were brought back from China for the trial,

testified that they had been hired as waitresses but were told on arrival in the CNMI that

they must also provide sexual services for Japanese tourists. Despite language difficulties,

the victims, with assistance from a local church, contacted the CNMI-FBI task force. The

task force sent in an undercover Japanese-speaking cooperating witness, who was also

solicited.

In the Western District of Texas, a defendant pled guilty to violating the Violence

Against Women Act’s provision prohibiting possession of a firearm by a person subject to

a protective order, and was sentenced to three years and one month in prison. The

defendant agreed that his prison term should be significantly increased to reflect his violent

actions toward his wife and children, and to take into account the dozen firearms he owned

while under the protective order. The defendant also stipulated that he should receive the

stiffest sentence under the appropriate United States Sentencing Guideline’s range. On

November 15, 1998, police arrested the defendant after responding to a domestic

disturbance call and seized a .22 caliber pistol the defendant allegedly used to threaten to

kill his wife. At the time of his arrest, the defendant was under an Agreed Family Violence

Protective Order issued in Kendall County, Texas, on October 22, 1998. The defendant

remains in federal custody pending sentencing.

In the Eastern District of Virginia, a defendant was sentenced to one year and nine

months in prison for possession of a firearm by a person previously convicted of a

misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. The defendant has two domestic violence

convictions, the first in 1995 in Ohio, and the second in Norfolk, Virginia, in March 1998.

It was during the second incident when Norfolk police, responding to a 911 call from the

defendant's wife, seized a semi-automatic pistol and ammunition. The case was referred

for federal prosecution when police discovered the defendant's previous domestic violence

conviction. This prosecution was part of Project Exile, a multi-agency task force operation

targeting criminals for prosecution for possession or use of firearms in violation of federal

law.

Violence Against Juveniles

The United States Attorneys continued to pursue the prosecution of those who harm America’s

children through the commission of criminal acts. The Violent Crime Control Act of 1994 created a new

federal offense allowing incarceration of persons convicted of traveling in interstate or foreign commerce

to sexually molest minors. During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys investigated and

prosecuted those who violated this law as well as other child abuse and pornography statutes.

In June 1999, 47 laptops were distributed to Child Exploitation Points of Contact in United States

Attorneys’ offices at a training conference held at the National Advocacy Center. The intensive computer

training on use of the laptops to prosecute Internet crimes against children used a team approach which

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paired an Assistant United States Attorney with a federal law enforcement agent from each district. The

crimes addressed during the training included distribution and possession of child pornography on the

Internet and using the Internet to lure children across state lines or traveling interstate to sexually molest

children. Also, during Fiscal Year 1999, the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of United States

Attorneys’ Working Group on Child Exploitation matters, consisting of United States Attorneys, Assistant

United States Attorneys, and Department attorneys, met several times to discuss and coordinate efforts to

combat child abuse, child pornography, and other forms of child exploitation.

Some of the cases involving violence against juveniles and child exploitation that were successfully

prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the Northern District of Alabama, a defendant was sentenced on charges of

traveling interstate to engage in a criminal sexual act with a 14 year-old girl and using a

computer in interstate commerce to solicit and entice the girl to engage in a criminal sexual

act. The defendant was sentenced to one year and six months in prison without parole for

his use of a computer online service to solicit the girl for sexual acts and then traveling to

the Anniston, Alabama, area where he met the girl at a skating rink. The defendant was

arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In the Southern District of Alabama, a defendant was sentenced to life in prison

after a jury convicted him of aggravated sexual abuse of a boy under the age of 12 and the

transportation of other young boys with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.

The defendant ran a go-cart shop and recruited young boys to race for him at tracks around

the Southeast. Three of the minors testified that the defendant sodomized them on

overnight trips to various race tracks. After the defendant's conviction, three adult victims

came forward and testified at the sentencing hearing that the defendant had sexually abused

them as long as 33 years ago. The United States District Judge departed upward from the

Sentencing Guideline range to a life sentence based on the number of the defendant's

victims and the number of sexual assaults on each of those victims. The judge also based

the upward departure on the psychological harm caused to the young boys, which, in one

case, resulted in three suicide attempts.

In the District of Connecticut, a former Boy Scout leader was sentenced to five

years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing child

pornography. The judge also ordered special supervised release conditions prohibiting the

defendant from having unsupervised contact with children under age 13 or access to an

Internet service. He will also be required to comply with any applicable sex offender

notification laws. Investigators searching the defendant's residence found hundreds of child

pornography images on computer disks and a computer hard drive. The defendant

acknowledged sleeping with the 12 year-old boy who was visiting his home when agents

arrested him. The defendant also faces state charges including sexual assault and risk of

injury to a minor.

In the District of North Dakota, a defendant who was serving 30 years in prison

for murdering his 4 year-old daughter in a 1995 house fire, will serve an additional ten

years in prison for trafficking in child pornography. The defendant was sentenced on the

federal charge to 15 years and eight months, with five years and eight months to be served

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concurrent with the murder sentence and the remaining ten years to be served consecutively

because multiple victims were involved in the pornography trafficking. A search of the

defendant's computer disclosed hundreds of images of children engaged in sexual acts and

evidence that the defendant was a frequent visitor of Internet chat rooms for pedophiles.

The court also sentenced the defendant to three years of supervised release and ordered him

to perform 200 hours of community service.

Violent Crime in Indian Country

The United States Attorneys have worked since 1997 to assist tribal governments with law

enforcement efforts in Indian Country. Although violent crime, as well as the total crime index, has been

dropping overall, crime in Indian Country continues. In addition to assigning resources to prosecute cases

in Indian Country, the United States Attorneys have attempted to bring together relevant parties to discuss

crime problems, and to educate each other on how the problems should be addressed.

In September 1997, as requested by the President and the Attorney General, the United States

Attorneys held listening conferences with tribal leaders around the country to determine the adequacy of

law enforcement resources in Indian Country. The consultations identified a glaring problem of

insufficient law enforcement resources. An Executive Committee was formed to make recommendations

to the President and the Attorney General based on the conversations with the tribes which resulted in the

President’s Indian Country Law Enforcement Initiative. The Initiative joined the Department of Justice

with the Department of the Interior to work together to improve public safety in Indian Country. As a

result of the recommendations, the entire structure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ (BIA) law enforcement

operation was reorganized. Line authority for BIA law enforcement officers was transferred to BIA’s

Office of Legal Services in February 1999.

Congress appropriated $109 million in grant funds in Fiscal Year 1999 for the President’s Indian

Country Law Enforcement Initiative for the first year of a four-year program. The funds provided for new

FBI agents to be assigned to Indian Country divisions and additional funds for BIA law enforcement. In

February 1999, the Attorney General initiated a review of the issues of common concern to the Department

of Justice’s law enforcement components. As a part of the review, the Attorney General asked a

committee, composed of representatives from the Department’s law enforcement and other components,

including representatives from the Native American Issues Subcommittee of the Attorney General’s

Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys, to make recommendations on how the Department could

improve its law enforcement efforts in Indian Country. The Committee made recommendations to the

Attorney General encompassing the entire criminal justice system.

In addition to responding to violent crimes in Indian Country, the United States Attorneys were

involved in programs to prevent such crime. For example:

The Great Lakes Native American Conference was held August 9-11, 1999, in Green Bay,

Wisconsin. The conference theme was “Shattering the Circle of Violence: Reclaiming our Communities.”

The conference was hosted by the United States Attorneys’ Victim-Witness Coordinators in the Eastern

and Western Districts of Michigan, the District of Minnesota, and the Eastern and Western Districts

of Wisconsin. The conference provided multi-district victim assistance training that enables federal, state,

local, and tribal agencies to develop skills, expand resources, and develop multi-disciplinary and multi-

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jurisdictional approaches to medical professionals, social services, educators, clergy, victim assistance

services, law enforcement, prosecutors, judges and probation personnel.

The United States Attorney’s office in the District of Nevada co-hosted the fifth annual state-wide

Native American Conference in Winnemucca on June 16-18, 1999. This year’s theme was “No Family

Violence: A World of Hope for the New Century.” The conference focused on issues that included family

violence, crisis intervention, gang resistance, elder abuse, and cooperative law enforcement in Indian

Country. The response for this conference was overwhelming. Participants included representatives from

the district’s Native American tribes, federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement, court personnel,

service providers, educators, and victim assistance program administrators.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys

filed a total of 620 cases charging 691 defendants with violent

crimes in Indian Country, representing a decrease of nine

percent in the number of cases filed and nine percent in the

number of defendants filed when compared to the prior year.

In addition, 632 cases against 690 defendants were terminated,

or an increase of seven percent in the number of both cases

and defendants terminated when compared to the prior year.

Eighty-seven percent of the defendants whose cases were

terminated during the year were convicted. Seventy-six

percent of all convicted defendants were sentenced to prison,

with 147, or 32 percent, of all defendants sentenced to terms

of more than five years, including two life sentences.

Cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the District of Arizona, a defendant was sentenced to ten years in prison on two

counts of aggravated sexual assault. The defendant, a White Mountain Apache Indian,

previously pled guilty, admitting that on May 9, 1998, he entered the home of a woman and

forcibly engaged in sexual intercourse with her. He also admitted that on May 24, 1998,

he entered the home of a school teacher who lived on the property of the community school

and committed the same act.

In the District of Idaho, following their guilty pleas to voluntary manslaughter, two

defendants were sentenced for a murder on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. The victim,

a tribe member, was found lying in a patch of snow on December 16, 1997. An autopsy

revealed that the victim suffered at least 33 separate injuries, including bruises, lacerations,

broken ribs, and missing teeth. Although none of the injuries was fatal, the victim died of

environmental hypothermia due to blunt injuries of the head and body and alcoholic

intoxication. The defendants and a third individual beat the victim to helplessness and left

him lying in the snow and rain. Noting the defendants' deliberate cruelty, the judge

sentenced one defendant to six years and six months in prison and the other to six years in

prison.

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In the Western District of Oklahoma, a defendant, a member of the Seminole

Nation, was sentenced to 21 years and eight months in prison for sexual abuse of a minor

between the ages of 12 and 16. The incident occurred on Indian country lands of the Ponca

Tribe in the Western District of Oklahoma. The defendant, a relative of the victim, used

force to engage in a sexual act with the minor female child and threatened to kill her if she

told of the abuse. The defendant is a repeat child sexual abuse offender who was

previously charged for a similar incident in state court. The judge ordered the defendant

to pay restitution for the victim's future counseling. The defendant was also ordered to

undergo a sexual assault assessment and treatment as a condition of his five-year term of

supervised release.

Violent Street Gangs

Street gangs have been part of America’s urban landscape for most of the country’s history.

However, historically, most street gangs were small groups involved in delinquent acts or relatively minor

crimes. Increasingly today, there are different types of street gangs. Individual members, gang cliques,

or entire gang organizations traffic in drugs, commit shootings, assaults, robbery, extortion, and other

felonies, and terrorize neighborhoods. Some of the most ambitious gangs have spread out from their home

jurisdictions to other cities and states. An increasing number of gangs are supported by the sale of cocaine,

heroin, and other illegal drugs, and they have access to more firepower than the average police officer.

According to the National Institute of Justice, research on the relationship between gangs and

delinquency has shown that gang members have significantly higher levels of delinquency than other

youths and that law enforcement focus on gang-related crime and delinquency has consistently increased

over the past two decades. Gangs, by their very nature, foster criminal behavior, especially violence. One

national survey found that the most commonly reported criminal activity for gangs was violence. Other

research suggests that increases in gang violence are the result of a “contagion” effect, subsequent acts of

violence -- usually in retaliation -- following an initial act of violence. The United States Attorneys, along

with other prosecutors throughout the country, are striving to give communities relief from these violent

gangs by building strong cases that remove violent gang members from the streets. The United States

Attorneys have successfully prosecuted violent gang members, and have seen harsh sentences handed

down. Prosecutions handled during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the District of Columbia, a defendant, the reputed leader of a violent drug

trafficking gang generally known as the "L Street Crew," and his cousin, a crew member,

were each sentenced to life imprisonment plus a consecutive 120 years and consecutive 25

years in prison, respectively. The two were convicted following a jury trial of narcotics and

RICO conspiracy, first-degree sexual assault while armed, kidnaping, attempted murder in

aid of racketeering, and numerous firearms violations. The defendant was also convicted

of money laundering. According to evidence presented during the seven-week trial, the

defendant's organization distributed large quantities of marijuana, crack cocaine, and PCP

in the Greenleaf Gardens housing complex for the past seven years. To protect and

promote the organization's drug trafficking activity, the gang engaged in a pattern of

violence against rival drug crews, including a brutal, retaliatory kidnaping, a gang rape, and

the shooting of a young woman who was suspected of setting up a drive-by at the

defendant's residence. The prosecution was the result of a long-term investigation by the

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Safe Streets Task Force. More than two dozen members or associates of the defendant's

gang have now been convicted as a result of this investigation.

In the District of Columbia, three defendant’s were each sentenced to prison terms

of 30 years to life in prison for their roles in the murder of a young man who came to the

aid of a homeless man the defendants and others were assaulting. The defendants,

members of a gang called "Mara R," were convicted of first-degree murder and related

charges stemming from a March 15, 1998, incident that began after the defendants and

fellow gang members were thrown out of a nightclub. The gang members then came upon

and attacked a homeless person. A theology student, home on spring break, happened to

be driving by, stopped, and attempted to intervene in the attack. The gang members turned

on him and chased him for several blocks before catching and surrounding him. They

kicked, beat, and stabbed the victim mercilessly, administering injuries that were ultimately

fatal.

In the District of New Jersey, the leader of Newark's notorious "Zoo Crew," a high-

volume drug gang that passed itself off as a civic organization, was sentenced to 30 years

and five months in prison on drug charges. The defendant pled guilty in June 1998 to drug-

trafficking conspiracy, admitting that he was the leader of an organization that distributed

more than 150 kilograms of cocaine and heroin. The defendant was among the last of the

“Zoo Crew” defendants to be sentenced. Fourteen co-defendants have received sentences

ranging from 11 months to 16 years for their participation in the drug ring. Operating

behind ostensibly legitimate retail businesses including sportswear, florist, fast food, and

auto parts operations, the “Zoo Crew” conspired in a heroin and cocaine trafficking

enterprise that purchased drugs in New York for sale in New Jersey, North Carolina, and

elsewhere. The defendant and others portrayed themselves as businessmen trying to

improve the lives of everyday people in Newark.

In the Southern District of Texas, a violent youth gang leader was sentenced to life

in prison and a consecutive 25 years in prison following his conviction on charges relating

to a series of carjackings. The defendant, a member of the “Latin Brown Kings,” was 18

at the time of the offenses. A jury found him guilty of murder, carjacking, and related

firearms offenses. In October 1996, the defendant and other gang members committed

three separate carjackings. In one, the victim was shot six times in front of his home and

in view of his wife, and in another instance, a 21 year-old driver was shot to death despite

offering no resistance. The victims were selected on the basis of unique wheel rims on their

cars. This case was the first to be prosecuted in the district under the federal carjacking

statute.

Violence in Public Housing

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys continued their implementation of an

agreement between the Attorney General and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to combat

violence in public housing. The agreement has resulted in the development of model anti-crime and

violence reduction programs in numerous cities. Representatives from United States Attorneys’ offices

continued to meet with housing authorities and local police to develop strong management programs to

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certify residents and to enforce leasing agreements. In addition, several cities designated attorneys to

prosecute all targeted area offenses, including the eviction of tenants who are involved in drug or violent

crimes.

Other activities have focused on youth violence, particularly youths and guns. Federal, state and

local task forces were established by several United States Attorneys’ offices to combat gang-related crime

and narcotics trafficking. One particular United States Attorney’s office is focusing efforts on employment

development for public housing residents in the hope of developing job training opportunities that will

address the residents’ needs and provide jobs to those residents. Finally, community oriented policing and

Weed and Seed activities were expanded in many of the cities. These initiatives have had a direct impact

on public safety in public housing facilities. The United States Attorneys will continue to provide

leadership in this important area and work with the participants to implement the agreement. An example

of a successful prosecution by a United States Attorney under the public housing initiative includes:

In the Northern District of Indiana, a defendant was sentenced to life

imprisonment for his involvement in a drug conspiracy and other drug-related convictions,

plus a consecutive 30-year sentence for carrying a firearm equipped with a silencer in

relation to the drug conspiracy. The defendant was part of an organization that operated

out of the Delany Housing Complex and other areas of Gary, Indiana, from approximately

January 1993 until the summer of 1997. It is estimated that the organization distributed

more than 300 kilograms of cocaine, mostly crack cocaine. During one period, the

organization distributed as much as four kilograms daily. In addition to narcotics

distribution, the organization commonly employed guns and used violence to protect its

interests. In late 1995, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ Violent Crimes Task

Force, working with the Drug Enforcement Administration, began to investigate the

organization in the OCDETF-designated "Operation Knockout." As a result of the

investigation, nine organization members were indicted. This is the defendant's second

drug conviction. He was on federal probation during much of the time he was involved in

the organization, and after his 1998 conviction, his probation was revoked.

Narcotics Prosecutions

Today, 6.4 percent of Americans use illegal drugs, down more than 50 percent from 17.5 percent

of the population in 1979 according to the 1999 National Drug Control Strategy, Office of National Drug

Control Policy. While the drop in percentage of users is encouraging, it belies the depth of the problem

in the United States. We must remain vigilant in our fight to keep drugs out of our communities and, most

importantly, away from our children. In fact, according to data included in the 1998 Sourcebook of

Criminal Justice Statistics, published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 39 percent of teenagers surveyed

responded that drugs were the biggest problem facing people their age today. Drugs are a major factor in

the commission of violent crimes, and a burden on our healthcare system.

The United States Attorneys’ drug strategy is to target and prosecute significant drug traffickers

and highly structured drug organizations. Task forces are utilized throughout the country to benefit from

the expertise and criminal intelligence of federal, state, and local law enforcement officials. The Organized

Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) are an integral element of the United States Attorneys’

drug enforcement effort and focus attention on significant drug traffickers and organizations, including

violent drug offenders, organized gangs, money laundering organizations, and corrupt public officials.

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In response to a Congressional mandate, each United States Attorney developed a local Drug

Control Strategic Plan during Fiscal Year 1998 in conjunction with state, local and federal law enforcement

agencies. The Drug Control Strategic Plans summarize local drug problems and present a counter-drug

strategy to address identified problems. The Department used this information to promote OCDETF

coordination at the regional level and to refine and update the Department’s National Strategic Plan.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys

again directed substantial resources to the prosecution of

narcotics and OCDETF cases. These cases represented 33

percent of all criminal cases filed during the year, an

increase over the 32 percent of all criminal cases filed during

the prior fiscal year. During Fiscal Year 1999, a total of

16,617 cases were filed against 29,846 drug defendants and

classified under the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (Non-

OCDETF) and the OCDETF program categories. See Table

3. This represents an increase of ten percent in the number

of cases filed and 11 percent in the number of defendants

filed when compared to the prior year, and the highest

number of drug cases and defendants filed over the past

eight years. A total of 14,800 cases against 25,752

defendants were also terminated, representing increases of 21 percent in the number of cases terminated

and 13 percent in the number of defendants terminated when compared to the prior year. Ninety percent

of all terminated defendants were convicted, the highest narcotics conviction rate seen over the last several

years. Of the convicted defendants, 21,092, or 91 percent, were sentenced to prison. Of the defendants

sentenced to prison, 7,933, or 38 percent, were sentenced to terms of five or more years in prison.

As noted in the Violent Crime section, beginning in Fiscal Year 1996 Table 3 was broken out

further to display those narcotics cases that are classified under the Violent Crime and the Government

Regulatory Offense/Money Laundering program categories. Of the cases falling under these two program

categories during Fiscal Year 1999, 421 cases filed against 836 defendants were narcotics cases.

OCDETF

The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) align the United States

Attorneys’ offices, federal agents and support staff, and state and local law enforcement officials to meet

the goals of the National Drug Control Strategy and the Department’s Strategic Plan. OCDETFs target

foreign and domestic trafficking organizations, money laundering activities, gangs, and public corruption.

A typical task force consists of the United States Attorney, agents and support staff from other federal

agencies, and participating state and local law enforcement agencies. Task forces have been established

across the country, in both urban and rural areas, focusing on drug-trafficking networks.

In Fiscal Year 1997, the Department, in conjunction with the United States Attorneys, initiated an

OCDETF regional restructuring designed to respond more effectively to current and emerging drug

trafficking patterns, to cluster districts with common drug trafficking problems, and to enhance

communications and coordination within and among OCDETF regions. Consistent with the Department’s

Strategic Plan and the National Drug Control Strategy, the number of OCDETF regions was reduced from

13 to nine. In Fiscal Year 1998, the new OCDETF regions became operational, and focused greater

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attention, expertise, and resources on those criminal organizations that are responsible for the greatest

volume of drugs and violence in our country, and has borne significant results in the battle against drug

traffickers.

The United States Attorneys filed 3,270 OCDETF

cases against 9,222 defendants during Fiscal Year 1999, an

increase of 45 percent in the number of cases filed and a 47

percent increase in the number of defendants filed, when

compared to the prior year. In addition, 2,459 cases against

7,011 defendants were terminated. Eighty-nine percent of

the defendants whose cases were terminated during Fiscal

Year 1999 were convicted. Ninety-two percent of the

convicted defendants were sentenced to prison, the highest

percentage seen over the last several years. Of the

defendants sentenced to prison, 2,930, or 51 percent, were

sentenced to terms of five years or more, including 100 life

sentences. During Fiscal Year 1999, the OCDETF program

initiated 1,484 new investigations. This represents an

increase of nine percent over the prior year, and is the

greatest number of investigations initiated since the

OCDETF program began 17 years ago.

As noted in the section on Violent Crime, during Fiscal Year 1996 Table 3 was broken out further

to display those narcotics cases that are classified under the Violent Crime and the Government Regulatory

Offense/Money Laundering program categories. This display of the data allows users of Table 3 to see all

narcotics cases, without double counting cases. As shown on Table 3, an additional 62 OCDETF cases

were filed against 123 defendants during Fiscal Year 1999, but were classified under the Violent Crime

program category.

OCDETF drug cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year

1999 include:

In the Northern District of California, a defendant was sentenced to 24 years and

four months in prison for operating a Continuing Criminal Enterprise. The defendant, a

Nigerian national living in Oakland California, used a sophisticated network of couriers to

transport heroin into, and cocaine out of, the United States. The defendant also distributed

heroin to an undercover agent. The defendant was indicted along with 14 other defendants

in January 1994 on charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine, heroin

distribution, interstate travel in aid of racketeering, and using a telephone to conduct

narcotics transactions. Charged with the defendant were his international heroin suppliers

from Thailand, Pakistan, England, and the Netherlands. The conviction followed a two-

month jury trial.

In the Southern District of Florida, a North Miami Middle School Assistant

Principal was sentenced to 30 years and five months in prison following his conviction for

orchestrating drug deals in his school office. The 22-year school district veteran, who was

in charge of meting out discipline to students, conducted a 30-kilogram cocaine buy

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through meetings with a Drug Enforcement Administration undercover agent in his school

office and parking lot. In tape recorded conversations over his office telephone, the

defendant indicated that his job as Assistant Principal provided good cover for his cocaine

trafficking. The judge imposed sentence enhancements for use of a nine millimeter pistol

during the offense and perjurious trial testimony, as well as an upward departure for abuse

of a position of trust. The defendant testified at trial that he had intended to take the 30

kilograms of cocaine immediately to a nearby police station to turn it in when he was

arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administrator. The case arose from an OCDETF

investigation.

In the Northern District of Mississippi, a defendant was sentenced to life in prison

without the possibility of parole on drug trafficking charges. The defendant was convicted

of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of marijuana with

intent to distribute, possession of firearms as a convicted felon, possession of a firearm with

an obliterated serial number, and eight counts of money laundering. The defendant's

conviction and sentencing marked the culmination of a four-year OCDETF investigation

in the Mississippi Delta. The joint investigation included the Central Delta Drug Task

Force, the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division, the Drug

Enforcement Administration, the Washington and Bolivar County Sheriffs' Departments,

the Greenville Police Department's Special Operations Unit, the Mississippi Bureau of

Narcotics, the Mississippi Department of Corrections, and the Los Angeles, California,

Police Department.

In the District of Montana, a career offender was sentenced to life imprisonment

without parole in an OCDETF case in which he and 11 others were charged with importing

hundreds of kilos of marijuana from Mexico and Arizona into Montana. The sentence was

enhanced as a result of the defendant's two previous drug felony convictions. The

defendant’s history also included violent assaults on those he perceived as informers, or

those who failed to pay. The defendant directed much of the drug smuggling operation

while in custody awaiting trial on another charge through collect phone calls to his wife,

who, in turn, connected the defendant with other co-conspirator's through a three-way

calling feature. A portion of the marijuana and some methamphetamine were "body

packed" into Montana State Prison for inmate sale and use. The conspiracy lasted from

1992 to the end of 1997. The other 11 defendants were previously convicted and received

sentences ranging from ten to 20 years in prison. The defendants also forfeited

approximately $125,000 in real and personal property. Agencies participating in the case

were the Internal Revenue Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Montana

Narcotics Investigation Bureau.

In the Northern District of Ohio, a defendant became the 42nd defendant to be

sentenced in connection with a year-long OCDETF investigation dubbed "Operation

Roadkill." The defendant received a 20 year prison term. Fifty individuals were originally

indicted on charges of cocaine conspiracies and money laundering. Eight defendants

remain fugitives. Six of the defendants sentenced prior to the defendant had previous

convictions for homicides, attempted murder, aggravated robberies, aggravated burglaries,

and kidnapings. Nine of those sentenced earlier received terms ranging from ten years to

21 years and ten months in prison. The drug conspiracies were responsible for multi-

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kilograms of cocaine being shipped to the greater Cleveland area from New York City and

southern Florida. The bulk of the evidence presented was the result of approximately three

months of wiretap interceptions. Seized or forfeited were 35 weapons, 46.5 kilograms of

cocaine, and $435,000. The case was investigated by the collocated FBI/Caribbean Gang

Task Force, which has assisted in the development of numerous OCDETF cases.

In the Eastern District of Texas, two defendants, both of Stockton, California,

were each sentenced to life in prison for their roles in a high-volume cocaine trafficking

enterprise and on various other charges. Two other cooperating defendants, were sentenced

to nine years and 13 months in prison, respectively. The four defendants were part of a

drug trafficking enterprise that moved into the North Texas area in 1993 and smuggled

large quantities of cocaine from Stockton to Dallas, Tyler, and Paris, Texas. In 1995, the

drug enterprise turned violent when another defendant tried to settle debts by plotting to rob

and kill four suspected drug dealers from Oklahoma. In February 1995, police found two

bodies, which led to the discovery of the wide-ranging criminal enterprise. Of the seven

people originally indicted, four pled guilty. Three were convicted during a two-week trial.

In the District of the Virgin Islands, a defendant was sentenced to 20 years in

prison and ten years of supervised release after his conviction for possession of cocaine and

crack cocaine with intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school. The defendant was the

tenant of a guest house that officers of the Virgin Islands Safe Street Task Force entered to

execute a search warrant on an unrelated case. In the defendant's room, the officers found

in plain view drugs and drug paraphernalia. The defendant, who was not home at the time,

was later stopped in his vehicle and was found in possession of more than $11,000 in cash.

The defendant was convicted after a four day jury trial. The $11,000 seized from him was

administratively forfeited by the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Non-OCDETF Drugs

In addition to OCDETF cases, a total of 13,347 cases

were filed by the United States Attorneys against 20,624

non-OCDETF drug defendants during Fiscal Year 1999 and

classified under the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (Non-

OCDETF) program category. This represents an increase of

four percent in the number of cases filed and a decrease of

less than one percent in the number of defendants filed when

compared to the prior year. A total of 12,341 cases against

18,741 defendants were also terminated, representing an

increase of 15 percent in the number of cases terminated and

a seven percent increase in the number of defendants

terminated. Ninety percent of all terminated defendants were

convicted, with 91 percent of the convicted defendants

sentenced to prison. Of the 15,363 guilty defendants who

were sentenced to prison, 5,003 or 33 percent, were sentenced to prison terms of more than five years,

including 71 defendants who were sentenced to life in prison.

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As noted in both the Violent Crime and OCDETF sections, beginning in Fiscal Year 1996 Table

3 was broken out further to display those narcotics cases that are classified under the Violent Crime and

the Government Regulatory Offense/Money Laundering program categories. Of the cases falling under

these two program categories during Fiscal Year 1999, 359 cases filed against 713 defendants were non-

OCDETF drug cases.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys continued work to implement the Midwest

Methamphetamine Strategy. The Attorney General announced the Midwest Methamphetamine Strategy

in Fiscal Year 1996 to augment the National Methamphetamine Strategy. The goal of both the National

and Midwest strategies is to develop a partnership among all levels of law enforcement, educators,

treatment professionals, and the community to deter the growth of methamphetamine production and use.

Methamphetamine is dangerous to users, but the production in methamphetamine labs also creates bio-

hazardous conditions which can impact the community as well. In response to the Attorney General’s

Methamphetamine Strategy, each United States Attorney in the Midwest designated an Assistant United

States Attorney to coordinate investigations among federal, state and local law enforcement, to share

intelligence, and to control illegal distribution of the chemicals used to make methamphetamine. Under

the strategy, law enforcement officers are being trained to detect precursor chemicals, investigate labs,

safely seize methamphetamine-making materials, and understand the pharmacological and psychoactive

effects of the drug. Also, communities are being educated about the dangers of methamphetamine and

prevention and treatment programs are being established.

Some of the non-OCDETF drug cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys

during the year include:

In the Eastern District of California, a defendant was sentenced to more than eight

years in prison for selling 262 cases of tablets containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine,

knowing these chemicals would be resold in large quantities for the purpose of

manufacturing methamphetamine. Such a large number of tablets would produce more

than 130 pounds of methamphetamine with a wholesale value of about $780,000 and a

retail value of between $3.5 million and $4.7 million.

In the Central District of Illinois, a defendant was sentenced to 30 years in prison

for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine and conspiracy to engage in money

laundering. At sentencing, the defendant testified that, contrary to his admission when he

pled guilty, he never distributed crack cocaine. The court found the defendant liable for

distribution of more than five kilograms of crack cocaine, and also found his denial to be

a willful attempt to obstruct justice resulting in a 68-month increase in his Sentencing

Guidelines range.

In the Northern District of Indiana, a defendant was sentenced to 12 year in prison

and three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine

and carrying a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The defendant had a previous

state conviction for cocaine possession and was on state parole supervision at the time of

this offense. The case was investigated by the Gary Response Investigative Team, the task

force designated to investigate drug and violent crime in Gary, Indiana.

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In the Eastern District of New York, the New York leader of the Almighty Latin

King Queen Nation (“The Latin Kings”), pled guilty to heroin and cocaine distribution

charges. The defendant was one of more than 100 defendants arrested on federal charges

filed by the United States Attorneys’ offices in Brooklyn and Manhattan in May 1998

following an 18-month investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New

York City Police Department into the gang’s criminal activities. With the assistance of the

Kings County District Attorney’s office, the defendant and three other individuals were

charged last spring in a multi-count federal indictment with conspiring to distribute and

distributing heroin and cocaine during a ten-month period.

Immigration

Border Enforcement

More than 176,000 undocumented immigrants, a third of whom have criminal records, were

expelled from the United States during 1999 according to the Immigration and Naturalization Service

(INS). This represents a three percent increase over 1998, during which 171,154 deportations occurred.

Thus, although efforts have been stepped up in recent years by INS and the United States Attorneys, more

work needs to be done to enforce our immigration laws not only preventing illegal immigration, but also

dealing with the ramifications of illegal immigrants through the justice system. During Fiscal Year 1999,

the United States Attorneys continued to work with the INS and other Department components in taking

an aggressive stance to secure the borders of the United States.

Also, in July 1999, the Attorney General asked the United States Attorneys to meet with INS

Regional and/or District Directors and develop unified strategies for the interior enforcement of federal

immigration laws. These strategies will include local threat assessments and operational plans for the

enforcement of immigration laws. The plans will be consistent with the INS Interior Enforcement Strategy

and will seek to accomplish the following objectives: identify and remove criminal aliens and minimize

recidivism; deter, dismantle, and diminish smuggling or trafficking of aliens; respond to community reports

and complaints about illegal immigration and build partnerships to solve local problems; minimize

immigration benefit fraud and other document abuse; and

block and remove employers’ access to undocumented

workers.

In all, the United States Attorneys filed 11,580

immigration cases against 12,650 defendants during Fiscal

Year 1999. This increasing caseload represented 23 percent

of all criminal cases filed during the year, and a 15 percent

increase in the number of cases filed and a 14 percent

increase in the number of defendants filed when compared

with the prior year. There was a 440 percent increase in the

number of immigration cases filed when compared to Fiscal

Year 1992. Ninety-five percent of the 11,770 defendants

whose cases were terminated during Fiscal Year 1999 were

convicted, with 81 percent of these defendants sentenced to prison. Sixty-one percent of all immigration

cases during Fiscal Year 1999 were filed by the five United States Attorneys’ offices along the Southwest

border.

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Examples of immigration cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during

Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the Central District of California, the leader of a large-scale immigration fraud

ring was sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $1,061,638.75.

The defendant was convicted at trial for producing and distributing counterfeit immigration

documents and laundering the proceeds of the scheme, which netted him approximately $11

million from 1,174 victims.

In the District of Idaho, a defendant was sentenced to one year and eight months

in prison for altering immigration documents in connection with a scam in which he preyed

on mostly young illegal aliens with limited financial means. The defendant, who operated

a business that purportedly obtained legitimate work permits for illegal aliens wanting to

work in the United States, convinced victims that they were proceeding through legal

channels to obtain the INS-approved work permits. Each alien paid the defendant a $2,500

paperwork processing fee. The defendant had acquired a facsimile of an INS stamp that

he used on passports to make it appear the passport holder had been INS-authorized to

work. In fact, the defendant had obtained no such approval and provided INS with phony

addresses for the aliens, causing them to be deported after they did not appear for INS

hearings. The defendant, a resident alien from Guatemala, is subject to deportation after

serving his sentence.

Anti-Smuggling Initiative

Part of the United States Attorneys’ border enforcement efforts include the prosecution of those

who smuggle illegal aliens into the United States. Prosecutions for bringing in and harboring aliens

increased by 24 percent during Fiscal Year 1999, with 1,917 cases filed against 2,859 defendants. Eighty-

nine percent of the 2,527 defendants whose cases were terminated during the year were convicted, with

79 percent of these defendants sentenced to prison. Eighty percent of the cases filed during the year were

filed in the five Southwest border districts. Examples of successful anti-smuggling prosecutions by the

United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the Eastern District of California, a Mexican citizen legally residing in Fresno,

California was sentenced to more than five years in prison for his role in smuggling illegal

aliens into this country. The defendant pled guilty in October 1998 to conspiracy to

transport and harbor illegal aliens. He was charged with heading a smuggling ring that,

between August 1996 and January 1998, brought more than 100 illegal aliens into the

United States. The aliens hid in secret compartments under the dashboard or floorboards

of passenger vans while they passed through the San Ysidro port of entry. They were

smuggled from Tijuana into San Diego and on to destinations in other parts of California

and throughout the western United States. The defendant charged each alien between

$1,200 to $1,400 for the trip. The defendant is now subject to deportation.

In the Southern District of Texas, a former INS Detention Officer was sentenced

to three years and one month in prison for illegally transporting 15 illegal aliens. The

defendant, a 20-year veteran of the INS, pled guilty to all seven counts in the indictment.

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In addition to his prison term, he will have to serve three years of supervised release and

perform 200 hours of community service.

In the Southern District of Texas, a defendant, the ring leader of an alien harboring

and smuggling organization, was sentenced to four years and four months in prison and was

fined $15,000. The defendant's organization operated a store, hotel, and apartments in

Raymondville, Texas, using the properties for alien harboring for as many as ten years.

Raymondville is approximately 50 miles from the Sarita checkpoint and the properties were

used as staging areas for harboring illegal aliens and then guiding them through or around

the checkpoint. The defendant's group devised many schemes to avoid detection including

using school buses during high school football playoffs or funeral processions to sneak the

aliens north through the checkpoint. The United States Border Patrol has removed

thousands of illegal aliens from the defendant's controlled properties. The defendant is one

of 13 defendants who were charged with and pled guilty to the conspiracy. All but two

have been sentenced.

Detention and Removal of Criminal Aliens

Criminal aliens--non-citizens who commit crimes--are a growing threat to public safety and

national security, as well as a continuing drain on our criminal justice resources. For years, criminal aliens

formally deported by the INS, after the commission of serious felonies, repeatedly found their way back

into the country only to commit further serious felonies. Although some, when arrested again, were

charged with felony re-entry, most were prosecuted as misdemeanor illegal entries because of the large

volume of these cases along the Southwest border. When convicted of the misdemeanor, the criminal alien

received no more than 180 days in jail, and often less. Again in Fiscal Year 1999, the United States

Attorneys handled an increased number of prosecutions brought for attempted re-entry of aliens previously

convicted of felonies and deported. A total of 7,323 cases were filed against 7,361 defendants during the

year, representing an 11 percent increase in the number of cases and defendants filed when compared with

the prior year. Fifty-seven percent of the cases were filed by the five Southwest border districts. Ninety

percent of the 6,654 defendants whose cases were terminated during Fiscal Year 1999 were convicted. Of

the convicted defendants, 93 percent were sentenced to prison. Successful criminal re-entry prosecutions

handled by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the Middle District of Louisiana, a defendant was convicted after a jury trial of

one count of illegal re-entry after deportation and one count of possessing a counterfeit

Alien Registration Receipt Card. Served pretrial with a notice of sentencing enhancement

as an aggravated felon, the defendant defended with three witnesses, his mother, a Mexican

midwife, and a Mexican farmer, who each swore he was an American citizen by birth, born

in a small Texas community near a natural hot spring. In fact, he was a twice convicted,

mid-level heroin dealer, born in Mexico, who had been deported three times in the past ten

years.

In the District of Utah, an El Salvador national was sentenced to six years and five

months in prison following a conviction on charges that he re-entered the country as a

deported alien involved in aggravated felonies. The defendant, who was deported from the

country twice, was serving a sentence for aggravated sexual assault in the Utah State Prison

when he came to the attention of federal investigators. He had a criminal history that

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included driving under the influence of alcohol, several convictions for car thefts and car

burglary in California, and criminal mischief in Utah.

In the District of Utah, a Mexican national was sentenced to 12 and seven months

in federal prison after pleading guilty to four criminal counts, including illegal re-entry,

possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, felon in possession of a

firearm, and illegal alien in possession of a firearm. The defendant served a five-year term

in a California state prison for a second-degree felony robbery and had served time for

several convictions on drug and firearm charges. He had been deported at least once and

had used, and been convicted under, a variety of aliases.

Organized Crime

The roots of crime organizations may date far back in our country’s history, but with the availability

of modern technology, and the emergence of organizations from all over the world, organized crime

operations are becoming ever more sophisticated and far-reaching. During Fiscal Year 1999, the United

States Attorneys continued to work to eliminate the acts of violence and the many criminal enterprises of

the La Cosa Nostra families and their associates. Organized crime can encompass violations relating to

gambling, extortion, and the infiltration of legitimate business. In addition to pursuing traditional

organized crime, the United States Attorneys investigated and prosecuted the illegal activities of other non-

traditional organized crime groups. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, organized crime

organizations from Russia, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and many other parts of the world have begun

to operate effectively and very dangerously in the United States.

On May 28, 1999, the Attorney General approved Operation Sudden Stop, a national initiative to

address vehicle and cargo theft where there is a likelihood of organized crime involvement. The initiative,

sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, contemplates a one-year, phased effort that relies on each

United States Attorney’s office to review and prosecute, where appropriate, cases presented as a result of

the initiative. The initiative has specific objectives to be accomplished during separate phases which will

carry over into FY 2000. The latest phase is being implemented in coordination with United States

Attorneys’ offices to focus the more sophisticated aspects of investigative techniques. Approaching these

criminal activities through the enterprise theory of investigation will ensure the use of all criminal law

enforcement tools available and result in successful prosecutions where defendants receive sentences

proportionate to the criminal activity involved and the resultant harm to society.

During the year, a total of 209 cases were filed against

429 defendants and classified under the Organized Crime

program category. This represents a five percent increase in

cases filed and a ten percent increase in defendants filed over

Fiscal Year 1998. Additionally, a total of 173 cases against

362 defendants were terminated. Of those defendants whose

cases were terminated during Fiscal Year 1999, 85 percent

either pled or were found guilty. Seventy percent of these

defendants received prison sentences, with three life sentences

obtained. Also during Fiscal Year 1999, an additional 57

organized crime cases were filed against 137 defendants, but

were classified under the Violent Crime program category.

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Cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the Eastern District of New York, a member of the Colombo Organized Crime

Family, was convicted for four Mafia-related murders, including the killing of the Colombo

Family action underboss. The defendant was sentenced to life plus 25 years in prison. The

conviction of the defendant and a close associate conclude a series of prosecutions over the

last five years of numerous Colombo Family members and associates. After a four-week

trial, the defendant was convicted of all charges, including racketeering, racketeering

conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, using firearms in relation to a crime of violence,

drug conspiracy, and drug distribution.

In the Southern District of New York, the alleged acting boss of the Gambino

Crime Family was sentenced to six years and four months in prison for conspiring to violate

the federal racketeering statute by, among other things, bribing a labor official, conspiring

to extort money from a construction company, defrauding a lending institution, and

engaging in the operation of an illegal gambling business. The defendant also pled guilty

to loansharking and conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, charges that arose

from conduct in the Eastern District of New York. The judge also ordered the defendant

to forfeit certain property to the government, including $358,000 in cash and real property

located in Milford Township, Pennsylvania, and Sullivan County, New York. In addition,

the judge entered an order requiring the defendant to forfeit certain other properties, but

stayed its execution for 30 days to provide the defendant an opportunity to demonstrate

legitimate sources for certain funds he tendered to the government in satisfaction of a

portion of his additional $1 million forfeiture obligation under the plea agreement. The

judge also ordered the defendant to pay $336,000 in restitution to the lending institution he

defrauded. The defendant was originally indicted on January 21, 1998, with 22 others,

following a joint federal-state racketeering investigation.

In the Northern District of Ohio, a jury found three defendants guilty in a RICO-

murder case involving organized crime in the Youngstown, Ohio, area. The court then

sentenced each defendant to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The three

associates of the Pittsburgh Family of La Cosa Nostra were convicted of substantive RICO

charges, RICO conspiracy, and conducting an illegal gambling business. With respect to

the RICO counts, all three defendants were found guilty of predicate acts of participating

in the murder of a reputed Youngstown gambling figure, the attempted murder of a

Mahoning County prosecutor, and conducting an illegal gambling business. Two of the

three defendants were also convicted of engaging in violent crime in aid of racketeering.

Official Corruption

The United States Attorneys handle public corruption cases to ensure that the trust of the American

people in their public officials is not betrayed. Over the years, federal and state legislators, governors,

judges, and other federal, state and local public officials have been prosecuted for violating their oaths of

office. During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys continued their prosecution of public officials

and employees for misconduct in, or misuse of, office, including attempts by private citizens to bribe or

otherwise corrupt public employees. These prosecutions included bribery, graft, conflicts of interest, and

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other violations by federal, state, and local officials and law enforcement personnel. The unique nature

of the federal criminal justice system provides maximum support in prosecuting these sensitive and often

complex cases.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys

filed 535 criminal cases charging 738 defendants with official

corruption, representing a two percent increase in the number of

cases filed when compared to the prior year. The United States

Attorneys also terminated 477 cases against 662 official

corruption defendants during the year. A total of 580, or 88

percent, of the terminated defendants either pled or were found

guilty. Of the guilty defendants, 284, or 49 percent were

sentenced to prison.

The Official Corruption program category consists of

several case categories. Those categories, including the number

of cases filed during Fiscal Year 1999 and the percentage of

change from Fiscal Year 1998, are as follows:

Program Category

Cases Filed in

Fiscal Year 1999

Percent Change from

Fiscal Year 1998

Federal Procurement 76 40.7%

Federal Program 66 -21.4%

Federal Law Enforcement 37 -28.9%

Other Federal Corruption 138 2.9%

Local Corruption 128 3.2%

State Corruption 56 43.6%

All Other Official Corruption 34 -12.8%

Official Corruption Total 535 1.7%

Examples of official corruption cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during

Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the District of Columbia, two defendants, both former District of Columbia

motor vehicle inspectors, were sentenced to three years and ten months and two years and

five months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a long-term conspiracy to supply

uninspected taxicabs with inspection stickers. The defendants were convicted of bribery

and conspiracy to commit bribery, respectively, following a jury trial. At trial, it was

established that the defendants conspired with other inspectors to sell approximately 1,000

illegal inspection stickers to owners of taxicab companies. Their sentences were the last

arising from an investigation known as "Operation Free Ride," conducted jointly by the

Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Metropolitan Police Department, which resulted

in 33 guilty pleas or guilty verdicts.

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In the Southern District of Florida, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Supervisory Special Agent was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay

$191,000 in restitution after he was convicted of embezzling more than $400,000 in FBI

funds, obstructing a criminal investigation in which he was involved, making false

statements and representations to the FBI, and making false statements to a United States

District Judge to obtain a Rule 35 sentence reduction for an organized crime figure. The

defendant was a supervisor in the Organized Crime Division and a 25 year FBI veteran.

He embezzled thousands of dollars that came into his possession in a variety of ways and

from different sources. Some of the funds had been seized as evidence; some were

designated for undercover operations; some had been taken from an unregistered

confidential source who obtained the money in the course of an undocumented and

unauthorized money laundering investigation. The false statement charges arose from the

defendant's efforts to hide his theft and to mislead fellow FBI investigators and his

supervisors with intent to hinder, delay, and prevent communication of information relating

to the criminal activities of an illegal gambling operation he had been assigned to

investigate.

In the Central District of Illinois, a former Quincy, Illinois, police officer was

sentenced to life in prison for his part in a conspiracy to transport and distribute

methamphetamine from California to west central Illinois. The defendant was

characterized as one of the largest methamphetamine distributors in the region. Four co-

conspirators, all of whom pled guilty, were sentenced to terms ranging from seven to 22

years in prison, and testified during the defendant's trial. They include the defendant’s

stepson, step-granddaughter, and her boyfriend, as well as the defendant's step-grandson.

The government seized more than $750,000 in cash and property in the case and distributed

it to various participating law enforcement agencies.

In the Southern District of Texas, a United States District Judge sentenced a

former Immigration and Naturalization Service Inspector to 15 years and nine months in

prison following his jury conviction for violating the civil rights of a Mexican national by

sexually assaulting her when she tried to come into the country at the Laredo Port of Entry.

The defendant was also convicted of taking bribes in exchange for immigration documents.

Labor Management Offenses

The Labor Management Offenses program

category encompasses cases that include a wide range of

violations of government statutes and regulations relating

to labor management relations, internal operations of

labor unions, embezzlement, conversion, and other

misuse of union pension, welfare, and benefit funds, and

bribery of, or extortion by, union officials. During Fiscal

Year 1999, the United States Attorneys filed 98 criminal

cases charging 111 defendants with labor management

offenses, representing a 30 percent decrease in the number

of cases filed and a 30 percent decrease in the number of

defendants filed when compared to the prior year. The

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United States Attorneys also terminated 141 cases against 150 defendants during the year, representing a

20 percent increase in cases terminated and a 13 percent increase in defendants terminated. A total of 142,

or 95 percent, of the terminated defendants either pled or were found guilty. Twenty-eight percent of the

guilty defendants were sentenced to prison.

The Labor Management Offenses program category consists of several labor management case

categories. Those categories, including the number of cases filed during Fiscal Year 1999 and the

percentage of change from Fiscal Year 1998, are as follows:

Program Category

Cases Filed in

Fiscal Year 1999

Percent Change from

Fiscal Year 1998

Corruption -- Bribery 2 -60.0%

Corruption -- Pension 30 -31.8%

Labor Racketeering 10 -9.1%

All Other Labor Management Offenses 56 -30.0%

Labor Management Offenses Total 98 -30.0%

Examples of labor management offense cases successfully prosecuted by the United States

Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the Northern District of Illinois, one of Illinois' largest road contractors, three

members of the family, and a company affiliate pled guilty to fraud charges, agreed to pay

$15 million in fines and restitution, and were permanently barred from public road work.

The family members each agreed to a prison term of one to two years. The companies

admitted defrauding the Illinois Department of Transportation and 35 local government

entities in performing 60 road construction and repair contracts over more than a decade

by falsifying weight tickets to bill for more materials than were actually used. The three

family members admitted filing false labor documents that understated their unionized

employees' hours, thus cheating approximately 900 workers out of about $3.2 million. The

workers and the governmental entities will receive restitution totaling more than $10

million, and the five defendants together will pay $4.75 million in fines. The companies

are banned from any future public road contracts, and all of the defendants agreed not to

contest debarment by any government entity. The case yielded an important ruling by the

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit that criminal prosecution of the

labor fraud was not preempted by federal labor laws.

In the Southern District of New York, the Mason Tenders District Council of

Greater New York, its employee benefit funds, its constituent local unions, and the United

States agreed to a supplemental consent decree calling for continued supervision of the

Mason Tenders to ensure that corruption and organized crime influences are not allowed

to return to the union. The supplemental consent decree follows a four-year period of

court-ordered supervision of the Mason Tenders union, during which court-appointed

officers, at the union’s expense, had broad oversight powers over the Mason Tenders to

root out corruption. The original consent decree expired last month. The supplemental

decree will be in place for three years.

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In the Western District of Washington, a former union treasurer was sentenced

to five months in prison and three years of supervised release following his conviction for

embezzling union funds from UAW Local 76 in Fremont, California. He must also spend

five months in home confinement with electronic monitoring. In addition to his sentence,

the defendant was ordered to pay restitution of $37,961.03 to the union, where he served

as the elected financial secretary/treasurer. He paid himself unauthorized wages at various

times while holding this position, and also wrote checks to himself purportedly to pay

medical insurance premiums.

White Collar Crime

The United States Attorneys handled a myriad of white collar crime prosecutions during Fiscal

Year 1999, including health care fraud, financial institution fraud, federal program fraud, securities fraud,

and computer crime. White collar criminals use ingenious methods to conceal their crimes, which often

means that the investigation of white collar crimes are long and laborious. The sophisticated nature of the

crimes, the professionals involved, and the fact that the criminal offenders can usually afford the best

defense lawyers requires considerable investigative and prosecutorial expertise.

In all, the United States Attorneys filed 6,558 cases

charging 8,670 defendants with white collar crime during

Fiscal Year 1999, a decrease of two percent in the number

of cases filed, but a two percent increase in defendants

filed when compared to the prior year. A total of 6,311

cases against 8,142 defendants were also terminated,

representing a four percent increase in cases terminated

and a two percent increase in defendants terminated over

Fiscal Year 1998. Ninety percent of the defendants whose

cases were terminated during the year either pled or were

found guilty. Fifty-six percent of the guilty defendants

were sentenced to prison. The rate of conviction during

Fiscal Year 1999, and the percentage of guilty defendants

who received prison sentences, continued the upward trend

of the past several years and represented substantially higher rates than those of Fiscal Year 1992.

The White Collar Crime program category consists of a number of fraud and other white collar

crime case categories. Those categories, including the number of cases filed during Fiscal Year 1999 and

the percentage of change from Fiscal Year 1998, are as follows:

Program Category

Cases Filed in

Fiscal Year 1999

Percent Change from

Fiscal Year 1998

Advance Fee Schemes 82 -14.5%

Fraud Against Business Institutions 498 -8.9%

Antitrust Violations 18 -48.6%

Bank Fraud and Embezzlement 2,469 1.3%

Bankruptcy Fraud 184 -1.1%

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Commodities Fraud 16 -42.9%

Computer Fraud 68 33.3%

Consumer Fraud 125 -29.4%

Federal Procurement Fraud 97 4.3%

Federal Program Fraud 710 -4.3%

Health Care Fraud 370 16.4%

Insurance Fraud 130 -18.8%

Other Investment Fraud 75 -3.9%

Securities Fraud 175 21.5%

Tax Fraud 765 -4.6%

All Other Fraud 776 0.1%

White Collar Crime Total 6,558 -1.7%

Discussions of some of the priority white collar crime prosecution areas follow.

Health Care Fraud

The detection and eradication of health care fraud and abuse is a top priority of federal law

enforcement. Efforts to combat fraud were consolidated and strengthened considerably by the Health

Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. Prior to the enactment of HIPAA, United

States Attorneys’ offices dedicated substantial resources to combating health care fraud and abuse. HIPAA

resources have supplemented these efforts.

Health care fraud involves many different types of schemes that defraud Medicare, Medicaid, the

Department of Veterans Affairs, or other insurers or providers. The fraudulent activity may include double

billing schemes, kickbacks, billing for unnecessary or unperformed tests, or may be related to the quality

of the medical care provided. The United States Attorneys criminally and civilly prosecute health care

professionals, providers, and other specialized business entities who engage in health care fraud, and work

with the Department’s Civil and Criminal Divisions, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys strengthened ties with numerous federal,

state, and local law enforcement agencies involved in the prevention, detection, evaluation, and

investigation of health care fraud. In addition to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS)

Office of Inspector General and the Health Care Financing Administration, these agencies included the

Drug Enforcement Administration, the Department of Defense’s TRICARE Support Office (formerly

CHAMPUS), Inspectors General of other federal agencies, and state Medicaid Fraud Control Units. To

facilitate coordination and communication at the local and state level, each United States Attorney’s office

has appointed a criminal and a civil Health Care Fraud Coordinator. Health care fraud working groups

continued at the national, regional and local levels to enable federal and state prosecutors and investigators

from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the HHS Office of Inspector General, the Defense Criminal

Investigative Service, state Attorneys General and Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and other agencies to

discuss enforcement strategies and other useful information. The Department has also continued its work

with HHS in establishing a national health care fraud data collection program for the reporting of final

adverse actions against health care fraud providers.

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Over the past year, United States Attorneys’ offices have diligently worked to enhance provider

understanding of the Department’s enforcement responsibilities and efforts. A number of outreach

presentations have been made to health care professionals, provider organizations, and beneficiary groups

around the country in this regard.

United States Attorneys’ offices have also worked over the past year to ensure that the civil False

Claims Act was applied to national initiative civil health care matters in a fair and responsible fashion.

At the direction of Congress, the General Accounting Office (GAO) completed a review of the

Department’s compliance with the provisions of guidance issued on use of the civil False Claims Act in

civil health care matters. As the final GAO report notes, the Department has taken a number of affirmative

steps to ensure that all United States Attorneys’ offices are complying with the guidance in national health

care initiatives. The August 1999 report also contains several constructive suggestions for strengthening

compliance efforts. As recommended by GAO, the Department has taken steps to improve its oversight

of national health care initiatives.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys filed 370 health care fraud cases against 504

defendants, representing a 16 percent increase over the number of cases and defendants when compared

to the prior year. During the year, 300 cases against 454 defendants were also terminated, an increase of

26 percent in cases terminated and 27 percent in defendants terminated over Fiscal Year 1998. A total of

396, or 87 percent, of the terminated defendants were convicted. Fifty-three percent of the convicted

defendants received prison sentences. As of the end of Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys had

1,994 criminal investigative matters pending, representing a seven percent increase over the prior year.

Some of the United States Attorneys’ successful prosecutions during the year include:

In the Southern District of Florida, a defendant, a registered nurse who was

administrator of Mederi of Dade County, Inc., one of the nation's largest home health care

agencies, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and

$15,233,489 in restitution following her guilty plea to conspiracy and money laundering

charges. The defendant was one of 17 defendants convicted in the government's

prosecution of a $60 million home health care fraud industry that operated by using Mederi

nursing groups from 1991 through December 1992. After a four-month trial, a Miami

federal jury convicted the physical therapist and nursing group owner. In sentencing the

defendant, the court made an upward departure under the Sentencing Guidelines, for

disruption of a lawful government function, finding that the extensive nature of the

defendant's conduct undermined the public's confidence in the nation's health care system.

In the Northern District of Georgia, a former state parole officer was sentenced

on charges of conspiracy and mail fraud to three years and ten months in prison and ordered

to pay $7,368,383.99 in restitution to the State of Georgia Department of Medical

Assistance. He will also serve three years of supervised release following incarceration.

The defendant pled guilty in the midst of his trial to charges of conspiring to defraud the

Medicaid program through false billings for psychotherapy treatments allegedly rendered

to children attending after-school and summer day camp programs conducted by his

business, The Human Resources, Inc. Concept (HRIC). Trial evidence revealed that

hundreds of inner-city children participated in HRIC programs promoted as academic,

cultural, and recreational opportunities. In fact, HRIC billed Medicaid for group and

individual psychotherapy. During the trial, several parents testified that they had not

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enrolled their children to receive psychotherapy, and program employees testified that no

such services were provided. The defendant's plea included another scheme for which he

was previously indicted involving fraudulent billings to Medicaid for services under the

provider number of a psychiatrist who was not in the country during the billing period.

Medicaid reimbursements in that case totaled approximately $6.7 million.

In the Northern District of Ohio, a defendant, the former president of Harris

Medical Supply, Inc., of Toledo, was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison and

ordered to pay $15,135,000 in restitution for his principal role in a conspiracy to falsely bill

Medicare $41.8 million for noncovered incontinence kits and to launder $8.9 million of the

money Medicare paid on those claims. The court has already ordered the criminal

forfeiture of about $35 million in property the defendant accumulated with the fraud

proceeds. The government auctioned 18 of these properties, will auction 18 apartment

buildings and commercial buildings, and will sell eight other properties in the Cayman

Islands, including a $1 million residence at the Cayman Island Yacht Club, five cars, a

motor home, and jewelry valued at $127,000.

Major Financial Institution Fraud

The United States Attorneys continued to prosecute the perpetrators of crimes that threaten to

undermine our financial institutions. The enforcement strategy proceeded with a coordinated approach

whereby Assistant United States Attorneys and Department attorneys from the Criminal, Civil and Tax

Divisions not only send defrauders to prison, but obtain restitution for victims, criminal fines, civil

monetary penalties, and forfeiture of property traceable to fraud. A major financial institution fraud case

is defined as a case in which the amount of fraud or loss is $100,000 or more; the defendant is or was an

officer, director, owner, or shareholder of the financial institution; or the scheme involved multiple

borrowers within the same institution. Since October 1988, the United States Attorneys, with the Dallas,

New England, and San Diego Bank Fraud Task Forces, have filed criminal charges against 8,711

defendants in major financial institution fraud cases. Ninety-seven percent of the defendants have been

convicted, with 74 percent of the convicted defendants sentenced to prison.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys filed criminal charges against 318 defendants

in major financial institution fraud cases. Of the 307 defendants whose cases were terminated during the

year, 99 percent were convicted. Eighty-three percent of the convicted defendants received prison

sentences. Some of the United States Attorneys’ successful prosecutions during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the Middle District of Florida, the former president of the National Baptist

Convention (NBC) pled guilty to charges of tax evasion, bank fraud, making false

statements to a financial institution, and making false statements to a federal agency. After

his election as NBC president, the defendant engaged in a series of schemes to defraud. As

an example, he and a co-defendant lied about their financial and personal histories in

applying for a loan to purchase waterfront property worth $700,000 in Tierre Verde,

Florida. In another transaction, the defendant forged the signature of the NBC's general

secretary in order to borrow $300,000 from a Tennessee bank that he intended to use in

marketing a credit card program. An Internal Revenue Service analysis of the defendant's

corporate deals in 1995 and 1996 determined that he failed to report approximately $1.3

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million in taxable income. The defendant was sentenced to four years and three months in

prison, five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $5,229,300 in restitution.

In the Southern District of New York, Bankers Trust Company was sentenced to

pay a $60 million criminal fine in connection with a scheme by high-ranking bank officials

to enhance the institution's financial performance by falsely recording approximately $19.1

million in unclaimed funds as income and reserves. Bankers Trust Company pled guilty

to three counts of making false entries in bank books and records. The charges resulted

from an investigation of a scheme by high-level employees in the Bankers Trust Company’s

Client Processing Service Division to divert unclaimed funds--which should have been held

for customers and/or should have been escheated to states as abandoned property--and

record them as bank income and reserves to falsely enhance the division's financial

performance. In addition to paying the $60 million criminal fine, Bankers Trust Company

has reversed and returned approximately $17.85 million of the approximately $19.1 million

unlawfully recorded to rightful owners, including customers and state abandoned property

departments. Bankers Trust Company’s plan to return the balance of the $19.1 million will

be supervised by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

In the Southern District of Texas, a former bank vice president was sentenced to

five years and ten months in prison for bank fraud in connection with check kiting schemes

at the now-failed Westheimer National Bank in Houston. The defendant was convicted

after a jury trial of three counts of bank fraud and one count of criminal forfeiture in

connection with his illegal dealings with bank customers.

Computer Crime

The United States Attorneys and the Executive Office for United States Attorneys are working with

the Criminal Division to address the growing problem of fraud in cyberspace. The Internet Fraud Initiative,

sponsored by the Attorney General’s Council on White Collar Crime, focuses on improving enforcement

control and prevention. The Initiative’s response to the Internet fraud threat includes: determining the

scope of the Internet fraud problem; ensuring that prosecutors and agents have sufficient training and

resources to conduct investigations; developing Internet fraud identification and investigation methods and

strategies; fostering and promoting coordination among federal and state law enforcement and regulatory

agencies; providing advice and support in Internet fraud prosecutions; and conducting Internet fraud public

education and prevention programs.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the Attorney General also approved a new enforcement initiative to

protect intellectual property rights. The Intellectual Property Enforcement Initiative is aimed at addressing

the burgeoning copyright piracy and trademark counterfeiting crime problem in the United States and

around the world, largely due to the explosive growth of the Internet. One of the key components of the

Initiative is increasing the number of prosecutions brought in the United States. To focus efforts, seven

districts were identified where the intellectual property crime problem is severe. Under the initiative, the

Department will train and equip investigators and prosecutors, work with industry to generate appropriate

criminal referrals, seek additional reform of domestic laws where needed, and support the government-

wide international coordinated effort on bilateral and multilateral discussions and training.

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During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys

filed 104 computer crime cases against 148 defendants. This

represents a 22 percent increase in the number of cases filed

and a 28 percent increase in the number of defendants filed

when compared to the prior year. During the same period of

time, a total of 96 cases against 132 defendants were

terminated, representing a 55 percent increase in cases

terminated and a 83 percent increase in defendants

terminated over Fiscal Year 1998. Eighty-four percent of

those defendants whose cases were terminated during the

year were convicted. The data reported here includes those

cases classified under the White Collar Crime/Computer

Fraud program category, as well as cases including other

computer crime charges. Examples of cases successfully

prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year

1999 include:

In the Central District of California, a defendant pled guilty to trafficking in

counterfeit labels affixed to counterfeit music CDs and counterfeit CD-ROMs that the

defendant manufactured. The defendant was sentenced to two years and nine months in

prison followed by three years of supervised release. The defendant was also ordered to

pay restitution of $60,000. The value of the counterfeit intellectual property was more than

$13 million. The defendant replicated copyrighted CDs, including Microsoft computer

programs and music recordings. This is the first conviction under the Intellectual Property

Initiative that the Department of Justice announced on July 23, 1999.

In the Northern District of Ohio, in a case involving the first-ever FBI wiretap of

a high speed computer data line, a defendant was sentenced to one year and three months

in prison, two years of supervised release, and 100 hours of community service following

his conviction for possession and computer distribution of child pornography and a number

of other computer-related crimes. A co-defendant was sentenced to two years of probation

and 50 hours of community service for conspiracy to install a "sniffer" program on the

computer network at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, where she was

employed as a systems administrator. The defendant was also charged with installing

"sniffer" programs on 11 computer networks, "hacking" into various college and business

computer systems, including Cleveland State University, George Mason University in

Virginia, the University of Minnesota, the University of Iowa, the University of Arkansas,

Modern Exploration, Inc., APK Net, Inc., Cyber Access (which writes software for

telephone companies), New Age Consulting Service, and the Internet web site for a

computer security company. The defendant pled guilty to the child pornography charges,

which resulted in a higher Sentencing Guidelines’ computation.

In the Eastern District of Texas, two defendants were sentenced to prison terms

of six years and five months and five years, respectively, following their guilty pleas to

charges of conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets belonging to the Intel Corporation.

The defendants were also fined $10,000 and $50,000. In May 1998, they contacted Cyrix

Corporation, offering to sell Intel Prototype "Slot II" computer central processing units they

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had acquired without authorization. Cyrix alerted the FBI and cooperated with authorities

when the defendant offered to sell five "Slot II" units for a total of $75,000. He then

arranged for the co-defendant to deliver two of the prototype units to Cyrix headquarters

in Richardson, Texas. The co-defendant was arrested as he attempted to deliver the units,

and the defendant was apprehended later.

In the Northern District of Texas, a defendant, of Oregon, and a co-defendant, of

Texas, were sentenced for hacking into computer systems belonging to Sprint Corporation,

Southwestern Bell, and GTE, illegally obtaining long distance calling card numbers, and

selling these stolen calling card numbers. The defendant was sentenced to three years and

four months in prison and ordered to pay $10,000 to the victim corporations. The co-

defendant was sentenced to two years in prison and also ordered to pay $10,000 to the

victim corporations. Both defendants pled guilty to criminal fraud in connection with

access devices and computers. The defendants were the ringleaders in a computer hacker

organization known as the "Phone Masters," whose ultimate goal was to own the

telecommunications infrastructure from coast-to-coast. In addition to numerous

telecommunications systems, the group also penetrated computer systems of credit

reporting agencies, utility providers, and state and federal government agencies, including

the National Crime Information Center computer. These hackers organized their assaults

on the computers through teleconferencing and used encryption program PGP to hide the

data they exchanged.

Other White Collar Crime

The United States Attorneys’ offices handled other white collar crime prosecutions during Fiscal

Year 1999, such as fraud against business institutions, commodities fraud, consumer fraud, insurance

fraud, procurement fraud, tax fraud, telemarketing fraud, and investment fraud. Some of the cases

successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during the year include:

In the District of Arizona, a defendant received the maximum 30-year prison

sentence, the longest ever for a white collar crime defendant in the district, and was ordered

to pay $8 million in restitution for operating a telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted

elderly victims. The defendant was the owner and president of American Eagle

Advertising, a company with offices in Phoenix and Atlanta. American Eagle sold small

gift items such as baseball caps, cups, and pens to businesses that ordered the products with

their logos to use for advertising purposes. Most of the company’s revenue, however, was

obtained by telemarketers who repeatedly called a group of victims, age 65 and older and

living alone, and falsely stated that they had won their “fair share” of $500,000 in gold or

other valuable prizes. The victims were told they had to purchase advertising items to

receive their prizes and were directed to send their payments to the Phoenix office. Many

sent thousands of dollars to American Eagle after repeated promises that they would receive

their prizes. The defendant directed the overall fraud operation from Phoenix, while a co-

defendant, who was also convicted, managed the Atlanta “boiler room” where

telemarketers made their calls. After a four-month trial, a jury convicted the defendant and

co-defendant on two counts of conspiracy, 15 counts of mail fraud, 13 counts of wire fraud,

and 11 counts of money laundering.

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In the Middle District of Florida, the defendant and his wife, were each sentenced

to 24 years and four months in prison, to be followed by five years supervised release for

their role in a telemarketing enterprise. The two other individuals who led the sales

divisions of the enterprise, as well as working as seminar speakers, were each sentenced to

five years in prison. Additionally, all of the corporations named in the indictment were

convicted. The jury entered a forfeiture of $10.5 million, which represents funds

transferred by the defendants to an off-shore account in the Cayman Islands. The money

seized in the Cayman Islands was the first case to be presented under the Proceeds of

Criminal Conduct Law (PCCL) which allows the United States to seize the proceeds of

fraud, as opposed to drug proceeds, which are laundered by being placed off-shore.

Additionally, a United States Magistrate Judge, also ruled that the defendant's attorney,

must return to the United States his $2 million fee. The large sentence imposed against the

defendants was due to the money laundering offenses, which comprised most of 97 counts

in the indictment.

In the Eastern District of Texas, the owners of Loe's Highport Marina on the

Texas-Oklahoma border were fined and sentenced to prison after they were convicted in

two trials of conspiracy, fraud, making false statements, and other criminal charges. One

defendant was sentenced to six years and six months in prison, fined $4,738,201.12, and

ordered to pay restitution of $1,735,130.11 after being convicted of conspiracy to defraud

the United States, four counts of false statement to a federal agency, two counts of aiding

and assisting in preparation of false documents under Internal Revenue Service laws, three

counts of false statement on income tax return, two counts of conspiracy to commit mail

and wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, and seven counts of engaging in monetary

transaction in property derived from unspecified unlawful activities. Her husband, was

sentenced to two years in prison and fined $75,000 after being convicted of conspiracy to

commit mail fraud and wire fraud. Their company, Loe's Highport, Inc., was placed on five

years of probation, fined $4,800,000, ordered to pay restitution of $1,735,130.11 to the

United States Army Corps of Engineers and two insurance companies, and $1,602,705.56

in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service after being convicted on 19 counts. The

corporation was also ordered to pay $74,354.02 for the cost of prosecution on the tax

counts.

In the Southern District of West Virginia, following a four-day sentencing hearing

on the government's motion to depart upward under the Sentencing Guidelines, a defendant

was sentenced to 25 years in prison on mail fraud charges arising from an insurance fraud

scam that resulted in the murder of at least one person. The defendant, who previously pled

guilty to five counts of mail fraud, and his wife devised an extensive insurance fraud

scheme involving the acquisition of more than 75 life insurance policies worth millions of

dollars over the course of five years. Many of the policy applications were completed with

false information concerning the applicants' health histories. In at least 18 instances,

signatures on the applications were forged. Most of the would-be insured’s were relatives

and friends of the defendant and his wife. In departing upward, the court found that the

defendant had murdered his stepson, on whose life the defendant collected more than

$600,000 in insurance proceeds, and that he had repeatedly attempted to obstruct justice

through his solicitations to have witnesses murdered and various acts of witness

intimidation.

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Government Regulatory Offenses

Government Regulatory Offenses is a wide-ranging category of cases involving such diverse

criminal activities as violation of United States Customs regulations relating to the payment of duty, the

importation or exportation of United States’ currency or monetary instruments, and money laundering.

This category of cases also involves the violation of statutes relating to the sale or pricing of federally

regulated energy sources, violations of federal health and safety regulations, violations of statutes relating

to copyrighted material, including motion pictures and sound recordings, and violations of our nation’s

environmental statutes and regulations.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States

Attorneys filed 1,784 cases charging 2,556 defendants with

government regulatory offenses. This represents a six

percent decrease in the number of cases filed and a nine

percent decrease in the number of defendants filed when

compared to the prior year. The decrease in cases filed

follows a 21 percent increase in the number of cases filed in

Fiscal Year 1998. The United States Attorneys also

terminated 1,753 cases against 2,545 defendants during the

year, representing a 13 percent increase in the number of

cases terminated and a ten percent increase in the number of

defendants terminated when compared to the prior year. A

total of 2,265 of the defendants either pled or were found

guilty, representing an 89 percent conviction rate. Of the

convicted defendants, 49 percent received prison sentences.

The Government Regulatory Offenses program category consists of a number of specific case

categories. Those categories, including the number of cases filed during Fiscal Year 1999 and the

percentage of change from Fiscal Year 1998, are as follows:

Program Category

Cases Filed in

Fiscal Year 1999

Percent Change from

Fiscal Year 1998

Counterfeiting 830 -0.7%

Customs Violations -- Duty 70 -15.7%

Customs Violations -- Currency 211 19.2%

Energy Pricing Violations 4 100.0%

Environmental Offenses 278 -13.7%

Health and Safety Violations 42 40.0%

Money Laundering -- Narcotics 81 -2.4%

Money Laundering -- Other 94 -25.9%

Trafficking in Cigarettes 4 -81.8%

All Other Regulatory Offenses 140 -21.3%

Government Regulatory Offenses Total 1,784 -6.1%

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Cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the Eastern District of Arkansas, Vertac Chemical Corporation and Hercules,

Inc., were ordered to pay $104 million to the United States to resolve allegations that they

failed to consider risks of injuries and fatalities to employees working with dioxin and

neighborhood residents living near the Vertac Superfund site, failed to consider the cancer

potency of dioxin, and failed to maintain adequate documentation concerning the dioxin

and incineration of drummed wastes. The restitution amount covers government costs for

cleaning up toxic and hazardous wastes in Jacksonville, Arkansas, that came from buried

drums of waste on the Vertac site and at municipal landfills. The company buried the

drums in the 1960's and failed to develop a disposal method for the hazardous dioxin.

Vertac was added to the National Priorities List of hazardous waste sites when the State of

Arkansas forbade the continued practice of burying the plant wastes at the site and required

Vertac to improve its hazardous waste practices.

In the Western District of North Carolina, an attorney was sentenced to eight

years and one month in prison and ordered to pay $1.1 million in restitution for laundering

money stolen from the Charlotte Loomis Fargo facility. A jury found the defendant guilty

of conspiracy and five counts of money laundering in connection with the Charlotte Loomis

Fargo heist. A convicted defendant, who helped to plot the theft, paid the defendant

$10,000 in exchange for his professional services in transferring cash to buy a $635,000

luxury home. The defendant also stored $433,000 in $20 bills for the convicted defendant,

knowing the money was stolen, until he could convert it into certified checks for the real

estate closing.

In the Western District of Washington, a defendant was sentenced to three years

and five months in prison, to be followed by three years supervised release, for possession

of approximately $7,000 in counterfeit United States currency and being a drug user in

possession of firearms. According to his plea agreement, the defendant knew the notes

were counterfeit and acted with intent to defraud when he attempted to spend the bills at

a striptease club. The defendant also admitted possessing a firearm while illegally using

a controlled substance. In fact, six weapons, including a semi-automatic pistol, a rifle, a

shotgun, and three handguns, were found in the defendant's apartment.

Environmental Crime

The United States Attorneys, in conjunction with the Department’s Environment and Natural

Resources Division (ENRD), enforce the nation’s criminal and civil environmental laws, including the

Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act. During

Fiscal Year 1999, the partnership between the United States Attorneys and the ENRD continued in the

investigation and prosecution of environmental crimes.

On July 15, 1999, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the

United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and the Mayor of the District of Columbia, announced

the first judicial actions under the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act. These first cases

secured groundbreaking settlements, including making 4,000 dwelling units in the District of Columbia

and Maryland lead safe. In the latter part of FY 1999, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys,

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working with the Environment and Natural Resources Division, prepared a packet of information about

how such enforcement cases under this Act can be investigated and developed, including model pleadings,

the applicable statutory and regulatory provisions, and other background materials about lead-poisoning.

The lead paint “tool-kit” was distributed to all United States Attorneys’ offices.

Many United States Attorneys’ offices participate in or direct environmental crimes task forces that

meet on an ad hoc basis. A few United States Attorneys’ offices are involved in numerous environmental

task forces such as the Eastern District of California, which directs or co-chairs six environmental task

forces. Typically, the task forces are composed of federal, state, and local law enforcement officers and

prosecutors. The task forces’ primary focus is on criminal prosecution. The task forces also provide

training to task force members, local law enforcement officials, first responders, non-criminal investigators

such as public health nurses who may come in contact with environmental infractions or crimes, and

members of the community. In the Middle District of Florida, for example, the task force actively trains

local law enforcement agents who are more likely to discover environmental hazards in disadvantaged

neighborhoods. The task forces may also reach beyond the borders of the United States, such as in the

District of Alaska and the Western District of New York which have formed task forces or working

groups that include Canadian law enforcement agencies.

The United States Attorneys filed 278 criminal

environmental cases against 440 defendants during Fiscal

Year 1999. This represents a decrease of 14 percent in the

number of cases filed and 11 percent in the number of

defendants filed when compared to the prior year. This

follows a significant increase of 40 percent in cases filed and

42 percent in defendants filed in Fiscal Year 1998. Also

during the year, 280 cases against 420 defendants were

terminated, representing an increase of 16 percent in the

number of cases terminated and an increase of 12 percent in

defendants terminated when compared to Fiscal Year 1998.

Eighty-four percent of the defendants whose cases were

terminated during the year were convicted.

Some of the cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999

include:

In the District of Alaska, a Dutch corporation that operated the Holland America

Line cruise ship SS Rotterdam, was placed on five years of probation and ordered to pay

$2 million for illegally dumping oily unprocessed bilge water into Alaskan waters in

violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. This is the largest criminal

environmental fine for a single cruise vessel and the second largest fine ever for a case

involving cruise ships. The investigation began after an assistant engineer aboard the SS

Rotterdam refused an order to pump untreated bilge water overboard and then reported the

violations to United States and Canadian Coast Guard officers in Vancouver and Juneau.

The Act permits the court to award up to half the fine amount to a person giving

information leading to conviction, and the court awarded the assistant engineer $500,000

for his significant assistance. Holland America was also ordered to make major changes

in vessel operating procedures as part of a fleet-wide compliance plan.

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In the Southern District of Georgia, the United States District Court handed down

two of the harshest sentences on record for environmental offenses. An LCP Chemicals Plant

Manager was sentenced to five years and 11 months in prison and a former company CEO

received nine years in prison for damaging the environment and endangering plant employees

through excessive discharge of waste water and mercury from LCP’s Brunswick, Georgia,

plant. A jury found the defendants guilty of numerous CERCLA, RCRA, and Clean Water Act

violations, as well as conspiracy to violate environmental laws. Three other defendants pled

guilty and testified for the government. The environmental manager, production manager and

a former plant executive were sentenced to 18, nine, and ten months in prison, respectively.

In the District of Maryland, Interstate General Company, L.P. (IGC), pled guilty to

a felony charge of violating Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, which prohibits the filling of

wetlands without a permit. Under the plea agreement, IGC agreed to pay a criminal fine of

$1.5 million to the United States. IGC illegally filled federally protected wetlands in an area

on either side of a flowing stream in a residential neighborhood. IGC received prior notice that

filling wetlands in the development would require permits from the United States Army Corps

of Engineers, yet beginning in 1990, IGC filled wetlands without the required permits. In

addition, IGC and its corporate affiliate, St. Charles Associates, agreed to the filing of a

consent decree in a parallel civil case that would require IGC to pay an additional $360,000

civil fine, and also require IGC and SCA to undertake a wetlands remediation plan on two

other parcels, including creating wetlands remediation sites totaling 73 acres and wetland

buffers. The proposed consent decree also requires that, once the remediation plans are

finished, the remediation sites are to be subjected to deed restrictions and conservation

easements barring further development of the wetland areas. The wetland areas protected

under these conservation easements will total more than 155 acres.

Child Support Recovery Act

In order to further the Attorney General’s effort to protect America’s children, the United States

Attorneys continued to participate in initiatives that enhance investigations and prosecutions under the Child

Support Recovery Act of parents who willfully fail to pay child support obligations for a child living in another

state. The United States Attorneys continued to develop effective case referral and screening procedures in

coordination with state and local child support agencies. The Department of Justice and the Department of

Health and Human Services (HHS) have initiated a pilot program, Project Save Our Children Task Forces, to

use resources more effectively in investigating and prosecuting child support cases. The Task Force members

include the United States Attorneys’ offices, HHS, and the state child support agencies.

The United States Attorneys have steadily increased the

number of prosecutions against parents who willfully fail to pay

their child support obligations. The number of cases filed

increased from 82 in Fiscal Year 1995, to 140 in Fiscal Year 1996,

to 201 in Fiscal Year 1997, to 249 in Fiscal Year 1998, and to 396

in Fiscal Year 1999. The number of cases filed in Fiscal Year 1999

represents an increase of 59 percent when compared to Fiscal Year

1998 and a 383 percent increase when compared to Fiscal Year

1995.

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Examples of successful prosecutions during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the Southern District of California, an Alabama resident was sentenced to

eight months in prison and a year of supervised release pursuant to his guilty plea to a

felony charge of failure to pay child support for children who reside in South Carolina. The

court applied a two-level enhancement for the commission of a crime against a "vulnerable

victim." The defendant was also ordered to pay full restitution of approximately $48,000.

Federal charges were filed at the request of the South Carolina Department of Social

Services, Office of Child Support Enforcement. The defendant was one of the first

defendants convicted of a felony under the Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998.

In the Middle District of Florida, a former football player with the Tampa Bay

Buccaneers and the Miami Dolphins, pled guilty to two counts of failing to pay child

support, admitting that he owed his children more than $284,655. The defendant was

sentenced to six years of probation and ordered to pay $294,282 in restitution. In addition,

the defendant was ordered to obtain and maintain gainful employment, and if unable to find

employment, to participate in a vocational education program, perform 20 hours of

community service work per year in an area involving youth or family orientated activities

and maintain regular contact with both children, if such contact was so desired by the

children. The indictment was based on child support orders filed in state family court

requiring the defendant to pay $2,700 a month for his son and daughter, both of whom live

in St. Petersburg. After retiring from football, the defendant filed for protection from his

creditors in bankruptcy court in Miami. At the time, he reported his income as $41,666 a

month.

In the Western District of New York, a defendant was charged under the felony

provisions of the Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998 for committing a second

offense and, following his guilty plea, was sentenced to ten months in prison. He was also

ordered to pay $101,833.65 in past due child support. The defendant, whose child lives in

western New York, failed to pay his court ordered child support for periods of time between

September 1996 and February 1998.

In the District of Puerto Rico, a multi-millionaire orthopedic surgeon from

Mission, Texas, was sentenced to the maximum prison sentence of six months and fined

$5,000 for failing to pay child support. The defendant was found guilty of violating the

Child Support Recovery Act after a bench trial. His child support arrearage for his

quadriplegic son, who suffers from cerebral palsy, was $64,565.

In the District of South Carolina, a defendant, of North Carolina, pled guilty and

was sentenced to one year and one day in prison without parole, to be followed by one year

of supervised release for failing to pay child support. The defendant, who owns a used car

lot, was ordered to pay $2,100 per month, but amassed an arrearage of $62,700. He was

held in contempt by courts in both North and South Carolina, and the South Carolina Office

of Child Support Enforcement requested federal prosecution. Enhancements were applied

to the defendant’s sentence based on vulnerable victims.

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In the Southern District of Texas, in the district's first case filed under the

Deadbeat Parents Punishment Act of 1998, a defendant was sentenced to one year and six

months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $173,097 following his guilty plea to a

charge of failing to pay a child support obligation. The defendant and his wife divorced in

1985 after the defendant left Texas to resettle in California. The divorce decree gave

custody of three of the couple's four children to the wife, and ordered the defendant to pay

child support of $1,500 per month. Although he is an engineer, owned a machine shop, and

supplemented his income by working at the family's restaurant, the defendant consistently

failed to comply with the child support order. State efforts to collect child support from the

defendant failed.

In the Eastern District of Virginia, a defendant of Daytona Beach, Florida, was

sentenced to five years of supervised probation and ordered to pay $32,018.76 in restitution,

at the rate of $500 a month, for past due child support and his share of medical bills for his

13 year-old daughter, who had a cancerous kidney removed in 1995. The defendant, who

is currently in county jail on a state civil contempt charge for failure to pay child support,

was ordered to begin restitution payments immediately after his release in October 1999.

Civil Rights Prosecutions

The United States Attorneys handle civil rights prosecutions in their districts in consultation and

coordination with the Department’s Civil Rights Division. Among other civil rights violations, the United

States Attorneys’ offices prosecute excessive official use of force or police or correctional officer brutality

cases, violations based on unlawful discrimination, including the Fair Housing Act, and other violations

of civil rights. The United States Attorneys and the Civil Rights Division continued to work closely

together during Fiscal Year 1999 to ensure consistent handling of these cases.

In December 1998, the Attorney General announced the establishment of Regional Worker

Exploitation Task Forces by the Department of Labor and the Department of Justice. Worker exploitation,

which often involves the recruitment and smuggling of foreign nationals into the United States, forced

labor under abominable conditions, and the exploitation of migrant farm workers, sweatshop laborers and

others, amounts to modern-day slavery. The regional task forces were created to allow investigators and

prosecutors to better share information and to better coordinate their enforcement efforts. In January 1999,

to facilitate these regional efforts, the United States Attorneys designated a point of contact in their offices

to serve as their representative on the regional worker exploitation task forces. On May 18, 1999, the

United States Attorneys’ points of contact for the Southeastern portion of the United States participated

in the training program for investigators and prosecutors that was held at the offices of the Solicitor of

Labor in Atlanta, Georgia, and hosted by the National Worker Exploitation Task Force.

The United States Attorneys also continued their efforts to ensure that the problems of hate crimes

are adequately addressed in their districts. A key element of the Department’s strategy to address hate

crimes was the United States Attorneys’ development or expansion of existing working groups aimed at

combating hate crimes. These groups were created to develop enforcement strategies, to share best

practices, and to educate the public about hate crimes. In March 1999, the United States Attorneys’ Hate

Crimes Coordinators began participating in periodic telephone conferences with the members of the

Department’s Hate Crimes Working Group. These conference calls have strengthened the United States

Attorneys’ ability to share best practices and to ensure continued exchange of information nationwide. A

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Federal Hate Crimes Conference was also held in Washington, D.C. This one-day conference included

United States Attorneys’ Hate Crimes Coordinators, Civil Rights Division attorneys, and FBI points of

contact. The conference presented best practices from around the country to allow participants an

opportunity to learn what progress had been made in developing Hate Crimes Working Groups in each

district.

The 1988 Fair Housing Amendments Act requires that new multi-family housing be designed and

constructed to be accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. The requirements apply to newly

constructed housing intended for first occupancy after March 1991. In Fiscal Year 1999, the United States

Attorneys and the Housing and Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division participated in a

pilot project to expand enforcement efforts in order to address these problems more comprehensively and

open up more housing opportunities for people with disabilities around the country.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the Attorney General asked the Disability Rights Section of the Civil

Rights Division and the United States Attorneys’ offices to work jointly to educate local and state law

enforcement officers about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in Fiscal Year 1999. The ADA

prohibits discrimination by state and local governments against individuals on the basis of a disability.

This means that state and local law enforcement officers must possess the ability to recognize a person with

a disability and assess the needs of that person and meet those needs from initial contact through

incarceration. In order to build a program that would accomplish the Department’s goal of providing the

most comprehensive training possible to the widest audience, the Department created an advisory working

group whose members included representatives from the United States Attorneys’ offices, the Executive

Office for United States Attorneys, the Community Oriented Policing Service Office, and the Disability

Rights Section. The working group developed a program that is designed to provide training to state and

local law enforcement concerning the ADA. The United States Attorneys’ Law Enforcement Coordinating

Committee Coordinators will coordinate the training in each district across the country.

The United States Attorneys filed 101 criminal civil

rights cases against 158 defendants during Fiscal Year 1999.

This represents a 20 percent increase in the number of cases

filed and an 11 percent increase in defendants filed when

compared to the prior year. The United States Attorneys also

terminated a total of 95 cases against 173 defendants,

representing a 67 percent increase in cases terminated and a

71 percent increase in the number of defendants terminated

when compared to Fiscal Year 1998. Of the defendants

whose cases were terminated during the year, 76 percent

either pled or were found guilty. A total of 88, or 67 percent,

of these defendants received prison sentences. Civil rights

cases successfully prosecuted by the United States Attorneys

during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the District of Idaho, six defendants were sentenced to prison for conspiring to

violate civil rights in a series of racially motivated attacks against minority members

Nampa, Idaho, in the summer of 1997. Among other offenses, the men were charged with

conspiring to physically assault the victims near their homes and with chasing the victims'

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children through the streets of their neighborhoods, yelling racial slurs. The sentences vary from

two to six years in prison. All of the defendants pled guilty shortly before they were scheduled for

trial.

In the Northern District of Iowa, a defendant was sentenced to six years and five

months in prison for setting two crosses on fire in the yard of an interracial couple on and

for tampering with a witness to the cross-burning by detonating a pipe bomb outside her

trailer home. One co-defendant was sentenced to one year and nine months and another to

three years and two months in prison for their participation in the cross-burning. The

incidents occurred in Quasqueton, Iowa.

In the District of Massachusetts, the Boston Housing Authority (BHA) reached a

settlement with the Justice Department, agreeing to pay $1.5 million in damages and legal

fees to tenants who were subjected to racial harassment and physical violence while living

at four of its housing developments. A civil lawsuit brought under the Fair Housing Act

against the BHA, along with an agreed upon settlement that would resolve the

government’s complaint, were filed in federal court. The filing also resolves a separate

class action lawsuit previously brought by private plaintiffs.

National Church Arson Task Force

The United States Attorneys, through local task forces, continued to work with the National Church

Arson Task Force which was established in response to a directive from the Attorney General in June 1996

to investigate and prosecute those responsible for attacks on houses of worship. While it was the number

of fires at African-American churches that brought these crimes to national attention, the Task Force was

formed to investigate and prosecute arsons and bombings of all houses of worship, regardless of their

denomination, congregational, or racial composition. Based on Task Force statistics, arsons investigated

to date were motivated by a wide array of factors, including blatant racism or religious hatred, financial

profit, burglary, vandalism, and personal revenge.

Many United States Attorneys also performed significant outreach activities, meeting with church

and community leaders to address their concerns, to discuss the law enforcement response, and to provide

information about arson prevention. Some examples of successful prosecutions by the United States

Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the District of New Mexico, following his conviction on a ten-count indictment

for the arson of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) in Roswell, New

Mexico, and a series of vandalism of other LDS churches, a defendant was sentenced to 15

years in prison, and was ordered to pay restitution to the LDS Church of $2,999,099.17, and

restitution to another victim of $1,316.74. The vandalism involved the destruction of

musical instruments, pews, doors, and walls, and caused damage of more than $150,000.

These events were motivated by the defendant's obsession with the church's secretary after

she ended their eight and a half year extra-marital affair.

In the Eastern District of Texas, a defendant was sentenced to concurrent prison

terms of four years and three months for the destruction of religious real property and five

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years for arson, and was ordered to pay restitution of $54,000. The defendant pled guilty to setting

fire to the Gainesville Church of God in Christ, a minority church near the Texas-Louisiana border.

A co-defendant also pled.

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III. ASSET FORFEITURE LITIGATION

The asset forfeiture laws are designed to attack the profit motive for crime, to seize assets used to

commit crimes, and generally to deter individuals from engaging in criminal activity. Asset forfeiture has

proven to be an effective law enforcement tool. The statistics reflected in this report do not completely

reflect the positive impact that forfeiture can have in a community. In appropriate cases, forfeiture has

facilitated the return of funds to victims of fraud, removed crack houses that were a blight to a community,

and resulted in the equitable sharing of millions of dollars to state and local law enforcement.

In judicial forfeitures, the United States Attorneys’ offices use both criminal and civil asset

forfeiture laws to strip away, by court procedures containing due process protection, criminally used and

criminally acquired property from drug dealers, money launderers, racketeers and other criminals.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys continued to work closely with federal, state,

and local law enforcement agencies to include forfeitures in federal prosecutions. These assets, which

include real and personal property, were judicially deemed to have been the ill-gotten gains of criminal

activity or otherwise used to facilitate that activity. Through equitable sharing, a portion of the forfeited

assets were returned to state and local law enforcement agencies as a means to further law enforcement

efforts.

Information from the United States Attorneys’ case management system includes judicial cases

developed with both the Department of Justice and the Department of the Treasury but not federal

administrative matters or forfeitures brought by a state government. Increasing numbers of asset forfeiture

cases are adjudicated in state court since many states have enacted or refined their own state-level asset

forfeiture laws.

As reflected on Table 20, the United States Attorneys’ offices filed asset forfeiture counts in 1,517

criminal cases during Fiscal Year 1999. At the end of the fiscal year, there were 2,499 criminal asset

forfeiture cases pending. Additionally, 1,954 civil forfeiture actions were filed by the United States

Attorneys during the year, an decrease of five percent when compared to the prior year. The United States

Attorneys also obtained 998 civil asset forfeiture judgments during the year. Asset Forfeiture Chart 1

below reflects the number of pieces of property (defendants) against whom the United States Attorneys’

offices obtained criminal and civil asset forfeiture judgments during the past six years. The chart does not

include federal administrative asset forfeiture matters or state court filings.

The United States Attorneys’ work on judicial asset forfeitures resulted in an estimated recovery

during Fiscal Year 1999 of over $535,767,852 in forfeited cash and property. This represents an increase

of 91 percent when compared to Fiscal Year 1998. In addition, approximately $5,852,212, or one percent

of the forfeited property, was retained for official law enforcement use. Lastly, approximately $38,821,330

of asset forfeiture proceeds were applied to restitution in victim-related offenses. See Table 20. The other

assets were converted to cash value and the proceeds used for law enforcement purposes by federal, state,

local and foreign law enforcement.

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Asset Forfeiture Chart 2 below shows combined civil and criminal asset forfeiture recoveries

reported through collections by United States Attorneys’ offices over the past eight years. The Chart does

not include federal administrative forfeitures or state court forfeitures.

Fiscal Year 1997 included a recovery in the Reiners case in which $221 million that was initially seized was returned to the victim banks

as restitution. Asset forfeiture proceeds applied to restitution are tracked and displayed separately on Table 20.

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Examples of asset forfeiture cases successfully handled by the United States Attorneys during

Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the District of Arizona, pursuant to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request

from the Netherlands, the United States Customs Service seized the assets of a convicted

Dutch drug trafficker. The assets represented proceeds of a large-scale hashish trafficking

operation and included a $2 million promissory note--with an extremely rare 1964 Ferrari

GTO worth more than $3.5 million as collateral--and a 1971 Ferrari subsequently forfeited

to the United States. The forfeiture case resulted from a loan that a Florida man secured

from the defendant through a specialty car dealer in Scottsdale, Arizona, by offering the

1964 Ferrari as collateral. The Ferrari was kept at the car dealership while the borrower

paid off the debt. After the defendant's conviction and imprisonment, the United States

government became the sole owner of the promissory note. The $2 million promissory note

plus $900,000 in interest were deposited with the court after the Ferrari was sold. Pursuant

to the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, a substantial portion of the $2.9 million will be

transferred to the Netherlands.

In the Southern District of New York, a priceless medieval carved wood panel

from the historic Great Mosque in Divrigi, Turkey, that was stolen from the Turkish

Republic sometime in or after 1995 was returned to Turkey following its recovery through

a forfeiture proceeding brought pursuant to the Cultural Property Implementation Act. The

panel was stolen from the depository of Turkey's General Directorate of Foundations,

removed from Turkey, and ultimately transported into the United States. The panel was

recovered in April 1998, when a London art dealer shipped it to New York for display at

a Manhattan art fair.

In the District of Rhode Island, 83 bars of gold unearthed in a residential backyard

were ruled a substitute asset and thus forfeitable to help satisfy a $136 million forfeiture

order against a convicted money launderer. The defendant is serving a 660-year sentence

for laundering Colombian drug trafficking proceeds. A $136 million criminal forfeiture

order was part of the defendant’s sentence, imposed in 1993. Depositions undertaken in

the search for his assets led to his mother's backyard, where FBI agents dug up the gold in

February 1997 - 6,000 troy ounces now worth approximately $1.5 million. Not including

the gold, $3 million has been forfeited, and forfeiture proceedings are pending in several

European countries against an additional $8 million.

In the Southern District of West Virginia, the Chief of the Virginia/West Virginia

District, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Division, presented the deed to

a half acre of commercial real estate, appraised at $100,000, to the Town of Jefferson,

under the Treasury Department's Weed & Seed Program, for use as a town hall. The

property is located in an area known locally as "the badlands" for its history of horrendous

murders and other crimes and the presence of numerous adult nightclubs. Previously, the

real estate was a strip bar called The Sports Page, where prostitution and drug trafficking

occurred. The club's owner previously pled guilty to tax evasion and money laundering

charges and faces substantial federal tax liabilities. As part of his plea, he agreed to forfeit

the bar and an additional $100,000. About two years ago, area citizens and businesses

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joined to improve the community. The Town of Jefferson was created and a mayor elected.

Several ordinances were enacted to generate revenue and drive out the strip bars. Citizens

and business owners have committed to contributing services and materials for renovation

of the former strip club and conversion of the structure to a town hall.

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IV. CIVIL LITIGATION

In their work in the civil arena, the United States Attorneys initiate civil actions, or affirmative

litigation, to assert and protect the interests of the United States. They also defend the interests of the

government in lawsuits filed against the United States, referred to as defensive litigation. Of all civil cases

pending as of the end of Fiscal Year 1999, 10 percent were affirmative litigation and 75 percent were

defensive litigation. Other civil cases, such as when the United States is a third party plaintiff or defendant,

a creditor, or an intervener, represented the remaining 15 percent of the pending civil caseload nationwide.

Civil matters and cases represent a significant portion of the United States Attorneys’ workload. As of the

end of Fiscal Year 1999, pending civil cases represented 67 percent of the 157,987 pending criminal and

civil cases in the United States Attorneys’ offices. However, except for appellate court and special master

hearings, only about five percent of total attorney work hours in court were devoted to civil litigation.

Beginning in Fiscal Year 1997, and continuing into Fiscal Year 1998, the Executive Office for

United States Attorneys implemented a new case management system, called the Legal Information Office

Network System (LIONS). With the implementation of LIONS, data on civil debt collection cases is now

captured in a separate system and, therefore, it is no longer included in the civil caseload data addressed

or displayed in this report. Thus, it is impossible to make any comparison or calculate any increases or

decreases in the overall civil litigation caseload data, or the affirmative civil litigation caseload data,

between Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999, or with other prior years.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices received a total of 88,640 civil

matters. See Civil Chart 1 below, and Table 5. Sixteen percent of the matters were referred for affirmative

action. Sixty percent were referred for defensive action, a one percent increase over the 59 percent of

matters referred for defensive action the prior year, and the highest percentage of defensive civil cases since

at least Fiscal Year 1992. The remaining 24 percent were matters where the United States was a third party

or otherwise designated. In 80 percent of these matters the United States was identified as a creditor in

bankruptcy proceedings.

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The majority of civil matters received during the year were referred by the Internal Revenue

Service, components of the Department of Justice, the Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human

Services, and Education. See Table 6. A total of 19,846 civil matters were pending as of the end of Fiscal

Year 1999. Of these pending matters, 6,113, or 31 percent, had been pending for less than six months,

9,696, or 49 percent, for less than 12 months, and 14,276, or 72 percent, for less than 24 months. See

Table 16.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices filed or responded to a total of 75,603

civil cases. See Civil Chart 2 below. The cases include those filed or responded to in United States

District Courts, United States Bankruptcy Courts and state courts. Of the total, the United States Attorneys

filed suit on behalf of the United States in 7,556, or ten percent. The United States Attorneys defended

the United States in 50,498, or 67 percent, of all civil cases, up from 66 percent during the prior year, and

the highest percentage of defensive cases seen over the last several fiscal years. The United States was

otherwise designated, such as a bankruptcy creditor or third party litigant, in 17,549, or 23 percent, of all

civil cases.

During the same period of time, the United States Attorneys’ offices terminated a total of 72,131

cases. Judgments were issued in 17,284, or 24 percent, of these cases, and a total of 13,907, or 80 percent,

of these judgments were in favor of the United States. The percentage of civil cases in which judgments

were issued, and the percent of those judgments in favor of the United States, has remained consistent for

several years. Additionally, 18,656, or 26 percent, of the cases were settled. A total of 474 civil cases were

disposed of by trial. See Civil Charts 3 and 4 below, and Table 4.

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A total of 105,932 civil cases were pending in the United States Attorneys’ offices as of the end

of Fiscal Year 1999. Of these cases, 27,204, or 26 percent, had been pending for less than six months,

46,347, or 44 percent, for less than 12 months, and 70,555, or 67 percent, for less than 24 months. See

Civil Charts 5 and 6 below, and Table 17.

While the pending cases represent a diverse range of causes of action, 66 percent of all the cases

were bankruptcies, foreclosures and Social Security/medical appeals. See Table 5. The data on Table 5

cannot reflect case complexity and, as with any statistical representation of workload, does not paint an

accurate picture of the time and effort required to litigate the cases. For example, civil fraud,

environmental, forfeitures and Federal Tort Claims Act cases, which represent only 11 percent of all

pending cases, may involve months of depositions, discovery and a lengthy trial, while a tax lien case may

involve one short appearance before a judge. Nonetheless, each case is treated the same for statistical

purposes.

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Civil Chart 7 below displays civil cases filed or responded to by cause of action, or case type, as

of the end of Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999, while Civil Chart 8 below displays civil cases pending by cause

of action for the same two years.

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Bankruptcy (25.45%)

Admiralty (0.15%)

Social Security/Medical Appeals (17.28%)

Student Loans (0.30%)

Tax/Other Than Lien (1.43%)

Torts (5.55%)

Miscellaneous (1.56%)

Civil Rights (2.40%)

Contract Actions (0.23%)

Enforcement (4.48%)

Environmental (0.62%)

Foreclosures (25.62%)

Post Conviction (8.50%)

Penalties (0.15%)

Land/Real Property (0.92%)

Immigration (1.00%)

General Claims (0.66%)

Frauds (1.10%)

Forfeitures (2.58%)

FY 1998 – Total Cases Filed 79,433

Bankruptcy (24.76%)

Admiralty (0.15%)

Social Security/Medical Appeals (17.63%)

Student Loans (0.46%)

Tax/Other Than Lien (1.12%)

Torts (5.57%)

Miscellaneous (1.68%)

Civil Rights (2.32%)

Contract Actions (0.20%)

Enforcement (3.47%)

Environmental (0.58%)

Foreclosures (25.46%)

Post Conviction (8.95%)

Penalties (0.16%)

Land/Real Property (0.99%)

Immigration (2.28%)

General Claims (0.60%)

Frauds (1.04%)

Forfeitures (2.58%)

FY 1999 – Total Cases Filed 75,603

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Environmental (0.92%)

Enforcement (3.38%)

Contract Actions (0.32%)

Civil Rights (2.94%)

Bankruptcy (15.11%)

Admiralty (0.19%)

Social Security/Medical Appeals (18.50%)

Student Loans (0.13%)

Tax/Other Than Lien (1.99%)

Torts (5.74%)

Miscellaneous (1.32%)

Foreclosures (32.75%)

Post Conviction (9.81%)

Penalties (0.27%)

Land/Real Property (1.27%)

Immigration (0.88%)

General Claims (0.74%)

Frauds (1.50%)

Forfeitures (2.25%)

FY 1998 – Total Cases Pending 105,297

Environmental (0.90%)

Enforcement (3.11%)

Contract Actions (0.27%)

Civil Rights (2.85%)

Bankruptcy (14.98%)

Admiralty (0.19%)

Social Security/Medical Appeals (18.16%)

Student Loans (0.20%)

Tax/Other Than Lien (1.64%)

Torts (5.71%)

Miscellaneous (1.31%)

Foreclosures (33.11%)

Post Conviction (9.36%)

Penalties (0.26%)

Land/Real Property (1.28%)

Immigration (2.01%)

General Claims (0.73%)

Frauds (1.65%)

Forfeitures (2.28%)

FY 1999 – Total Cases Pending 105,932

CIVIL CHART 8 – Civil Cases Pending by Cause of Action

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Affirmative Civil Litigation

The United States Attorneys’ offices initiate civil actions, or affirmative litigation, to assert and

protect the interests of the United States. Such affirmative litigation includes civil actions brought to

enforce our nation’s environmental, admiralty and civil rights laws; to represent the government’s interests

in bankruptcy actions; to recoup money and recover damages resulting from federal program and other

fraud; to enforce administrative summonses. Additionally, as addressed separately in Section III, Asset

Forfeiture Litigation, affirmative litigation includes the forfeiture of assets seized by federal, state and local

law enforcement agencies.

As addressed earlier, beginning in Fiscal Year 1997, and continuing into Fiscal Year 1998, the

Executive Office for United States Attorneys implemented a new case management system, called the

Legal Information Office Network System (LIONS), in all United States Attorneys’ Offices. With the

implementation of LIONS, data on affirmative civil debt collection cases is now captured in a separate

system and, therefore, is no longer included in the civil caseload data addressed or displayed in this report.

Thus, it is impossible to make any comparison or calculate any increases or decreases in the overall civil

litigation caseload data, or the affirmative civil litigation caseload data, between Fiscal Years 1998 and

1999, or with other prior years.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices received 14,534 affirmative matters

from federal agencies. As reflected on Table 6, 11,254, or 77 percent of these matters were referred to the

United States Attorneys by the Department of the Treasury including the Internal Revenue Service, the

Departments of Agriculture, Education, and Health and Human Services, and other components of the

Department of Justice. Forfeitures, foreclosures, fraud, enforcement, and bankruptcy actions accounted

for 11,258, or 77 percent, of all affirmative matters received during the year. See Table 5.

The United States Attorneys filed a total of 7,556 affirmative civil cases during Fiscal Year 1999.

The court issued judgments in 3,111 of these cases. A total of 3,005, or 97 percent, of the judgments were

in favor of the United States. Only 1,198, or 17 percent, of all affirmative civil cases terminated were

dismissed. As of the end of Fiscal Year 1999, a total of 11,051 affirmative civil cases were pending.

The largest category of affirmative civil cases filed by the

United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999 was civil

foreclosure cases. During the year, the United States Attorneys

filed 2,070 civil foreclosure cases, representing 27 percent of all

affirmative civil cases filed. The second largest number of

affirmative civil cases filed during the fiscal year was forfeitures.

The United States Attorneys filed 1,811 forfeiture cases during the

year, or 24 percent of all affirmative civil cases filed during the

year.

Affirmative Civil Enforcement

The Affirmative Civil Enforcement (ACE) Program

remains an essential part of the aggressive efforts by United States Attorneys to recover funds which have

been wrongfully paid by the United States. ACE is important as a powerful legal tool to help ensure that

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federal funds are recovered, that federal laws are obeyed, and that violators provide compensation to the

government for losses and damages they cause as a result of fraud, waste, and abuse of government funds

and resources. The primary statutory tool of ACE attorneys is the False Claims Act which provides treble

damages for the government’s loss, plus penalties for each false claim. This fully compensates the

government for its loss and deters future misconduct. Beyond the financial recoveries, civil fraud cases

have a major impact on the regulated community and advance the client agencies’ goals for program

integrity. These civil actions can be brought in conjunction with or separately from criminal or

administrative proceedings.

The False Claims Act provides the United States with a cause of action against any person who

knowingly: (1) presents, or causes to be presented, a false or fraudulent claim for money or property

against the United States; (2) makes or causes to be made a false statement to get a false claim paid or

approved; (3) conspires to defraud the government by getting a false claim paid; or (4) knowingly makes,

uses, or causes to be made or used, a false statement to conceal, avoid or decrease an obligation to the

government. Liability under the False Claims Act is triple the amount of actual damages suffered by the

United States, plus a mandatory civil penalty of $5,000 to $10,000 for each violation.

Although the False Claims Act is the main statutory remedy used to combat fraud perpetrated

against the government, a number of additional statutes are available for this purpose. These include the

Fraud Injunction Statute, Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, Civil Forfeiture

Statutes, Money Laundering Statutes, Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of

1989, Medical Care Recovery Act, Truth in Negotiations Act, Buy American Act, Program Fraud Civil

Remedies Act of 1986, Civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act, the Anti-Kickback Act,

civil divestiture actions, defense procurement fraud actions, qui tam actions, health care fraud enforcement,

civil rights cases, and Food and Drug Administration cases.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys

filed 2,421 ACE cases, a decrease of eight percent when

compared with the prior year. A total of 2,040 ACE cases were

also terminated, for a decrease of four percent when compared

to the prior year. As of the end of 1999, 4,351 ACE cases were

pending, representing an increase of four percent when

compared to Fiscal Year 1998.

Civil health care fraud efforts constitute a major focus of

the United States Attorneys’ ACE activities. Civil health care

fraud matters ordinarily involve the United States utilizing the

False Claims Act, to recover damages from those who have

knowingly submitted false or fraudulent claims Common law

remedies of fraud, payment by mistake, unjust enrichment and

conversion are also used where appropriate. Additionally, in conjunction with a defendant committing a

criminal health care fraud offense, the United States may file a civil proceeding using the Fraud Injunction

Statute, to ensure assets traceable to such violation are available to repay those victims the defendant has

defrauded.

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Civil health care fraud matters are referred directly from federal or state investigative agencies, or

result from filings by private persons known as “relators,” who file suits on behalf of the federal

government under the 1986 qui tam amendments to the False Claims Act and may be entitled to share in

the recoveries resulting from these lawsuits. At the end of Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys

had 2,278 civil health care fraud matters pending. A large majority of civil health care fraud cases and

matters are settled without a complaint ever being filed. During Fiscal Year 1999, 91 civil health care

fraud cases were filed.

In Fiscal Year 1999, more than $1 billion was recovered by the United States Attorneys’ offices

in ACE cases. Under the ACE initiative, the United States Attorneys have coordinated civil and criminal

enforcement programs to target fraud in innovative and productive ways. Many cases were successfully

handled by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999. Some examples include:

In the Eastern District of California, Horizon West, Inc., an owner and operator

of numerous local nursing homes agreed to pay the United States more than $4 million to

settle claims that it bilked Medicare by submitting fraudulent cost reports. The United

States alleged that, among other things, Horizon West submitted billings to Medicare for:

the cost of the liquor bar at the company's annual Christmas party; a company officer's

purchases of shoes, boots, and a handbag at Saks Fifth Avenue; fees to prepare personal

income taxes; and purchases of gifts, flower arrangements, cigarettes and lotto tickets. In

addition to paying $4,025,000, the company agreed to implement a corporate integrity

program to ensure future compliance with Medicare billing rules. For five years, Horizon

West submitted certified cost reports to Medicare for services and supplies it allegedly

provided to Medicare patients. A subsequent government audit revealed that the company

had inappropriately classified items to obtain greater payments than it was entitled to

receive. Horizon has now agreed to: appoint a compliance officer and create a compliance

committee; establish written policies and procedures for Medicare billings; conduct an

education and training program for all employees, with more extensive training for

employees involved in submitting cost reports; and create a confidential disclosure program

for employees to report inappropriate billings.

In the Eastern District of California, Sun-Maid Growers of California agreed to

pay $887,084.84 to settle allegations under the federal False Claims Act. Allegedly in

1994, the company wrongfully represented that certain raisins were not reconditionable

because of rain damage, thereby causing the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to pay

reinsurance on rain-damage insurance claims from some Sun-Maid member and contract

growers. Despite those representations, Sun-Maid purchased certain of those "not

reconditionable" raisins at amounts less than full value, reconditioned them, and sold them

at full market value. Sun-Maid has denied that its conduct was improper.

In the District of Columbia, Georgetown University Hospital agreed to pay $5.2

million to the United States to resolve a civil suit. The suit was brought by the United

States as part of a nationwide initiative to review compliance with Medicare Part B

payment rules for physicians at teaching hospitals (PATH). In December 1997,

Georgetown agreed to conduct a self-audit as part of the United States Department of

Health and Human Service's Office of Inspector General PATH initiative. The review

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revealed that the university had submitted insufficiently documented Medicare claims for

services purportedly provided by faculty physicians. In fact, Georgetown did not have the

documentary evidence required by the Medicare program to show that faculty physicians

personally rendered services in these cases. The announcement of the settlement concludes

a lengthy investigation and audit in the first PATH case to be resolved in the District of

Columbia.

In the Northern District of Illinois and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,

Doctors Hospital of Hyde Park in Chicago agreed to pay the United States $4.5 million and

take certain other steps to settle allegations that the hospital misused a pneumonia diagnosis

code in claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid between 1993 and 1997. The

government's false claims allegations were part of a whistleblower's nationwide lawsuit in

Philadelphia. The government alleged that the hospital improperly submitted Medicare and

Medicaid claims with a principal diagnosis for a rare category of pneumonia when those

claims were not supported by the corresponding medical records.

In the Southern District of Indiana, General Motors Corporation and a former

subsidiary, Allison Engine Company, Inc., agreed to an $8.1 million settlement, one of the

largest affirmative civil enforcement recoveries in the district's history. The settlement was

reached in order to resolve claims that engine parts manufactured and delivered by Allison

and sold to the United States Air Force for use on C-130 aircraft were defective. In the

1980's through 1991, the Air Force experienced a great increase in number of in-flight T56

engine failures because of engine blades cracking and breaking free from the turbine

wheels. Ultimately, it was discovered that the blades produced by Allison did not meet

contract specifications, and testing showed a 42 percent failure rate. In 1992, Allison

provided the Air Force with metal energy-absorbing ring and tube kits to contain the faulty

blades. The cost of the kits (plus interest) was $1,758,364, which General Motors agreed

to absorb as part of the settlement, making the total payment to the United States

$8,148,502.75.

In the Eastern District of New York, in a settlement under the False Claims Act,

the Brooklyn College Foundation, a fund-raising organization for Brooklyn College of the

City University of New York, agreed to pay the United States $1.1 million. The settlement

was reached to resolve allegations that the Foundation failed to comply with the

requirements of a Challenge Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities

(NEH). Under the NEH's Challenge Grant guidelines, a recipient is obligated to match

each dollar of grant money with three dollars raised by the grant recipient from other

sources. The Foundation was awarded a $400,000 grant in 1988 and falsely informed the

NEH that the matching requirement had been met. The case originated with an NEH/Office

of the Inspector General investigation.

In the Northern District of Ohio, two defendants agreed to pay the United States

$1,000,000 to settle allegations that they caused false claims to be submitted to the

Department of Education. The defendants allegedly engaged in a scheme to defraud the

Department of Education by falsifying reports and enrollment data concerning vocational

schools, known as Programming and Systems, Inc. (PSI), they owned and operated. Under

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this theory of the case, PSI could only maintain its eligibility to receive federal grant money

by falsifying data. In November 1996, one defendant pled guilty to a three-count

indictment for the same underlying activity. In January 1997, PSI pled guilty to one count

of mail fraud. As part of the settlement, the United States filed a civil complaint against

the defendant, along with a simultaneous consent judgment.

Defensive Civil Litigation

As noted previously, the United States Attorneys represent and defend the interests of the

government in lawsuits filed against the United States, or defensive civil litigation. Such litigation

includes, for example, tort suits brought by those who allege they were harmed as a result of government

action, the adjudication of Social Security disability claims, alleged contract violations, habeas corpus

cases, and race, sex and age discrimination actions. The United States Attorneys’ offices represent and

defend the government in its many roles -- employer, regulator, law enforcer, medical care provider,

revenue collector, contractor, procurer, property owner, judicial and correctional system manager,

administrator of federal benefits, and others.

All lawsuits filed against the government must be defended, and the number of defensive civil cases

handled by the United States Attorneys, as a percentage of the total civil caseload, has increased

significantly during the past several years. During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices

received 52,990 defensive civil matters from federal agencies. These referrals represented 60 percent of

all civil matters received during the year, up from 59 percent of all referrals during the prior fiscal year,

and 53 percent in Fiscal Year 1997. Foreclosures, Social Security/medical appeals, post-conviction

actions, bankruptcy, and tort actions accounted for 84 percent of all defensive civil matters received during

the year. See Table 5.

The United States Attorneys represented the

government in 50,498 defensive civil cases that were filed

in court during Fiscal Year 1999, a four percent decrease in

cases filed when compared to the prior year. Defensive

civil cases represented 67 percent of all civil cases during

the year, an increase over the 66 percent observed during

the prior fiscal year, and the highest percentage of

defensive civil cases seen over the last several years.

During the same period of time, the offices terminated

48,110 defensive civil cases, an increase of three percent

when compared to the prior year. Judgments were issued

in 13,730 of these cases, with a total of 10,568, or 77

percent, of these judgments in favor of the United States.

An additional 13,183, or 27 percent, of cases filed against

the United States were dismissed. As of the end of Fiscal

Year 1999, a total of 79,497 defensive civil cases were

pending, an increase of one percent when compared to the prior year.

Foreclosures represented the largest category of cases in the United States Attorneys’ defensive

civil program. During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys responded to 16,929 defensive civil

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foreclosure cases, which represented 34 percent of all defensive civil cases. The second largest category

was Social Security/Medical Appeals, with 13,296 cases responded to, which represented 26 percent of

all defensive civil cases. The defensive category with the largest increase during Fiscal Year 1999 was

immigration, which showed an increase of 925 cases, or 121 percent, when compared to the prior year.

Unlike affirmative civil litigation where the United States initiates legal action, the successes of

defensive litigation are difficult to quantify. In some cases, liability issues must be resolved and the United

States Attorney’s office represents the interests of the United States in the resolution of those issues. In

other cases, the United States may have apparent liability to a plaintiff and the United States Attorney’s

role is to confirm liability and then negotiate or litigate a reasonable damages award. Often, a plaintiff may

sue the United States seeking to embrace a regulation or law, or restrain the United States from enforcing

a regulation or law. In these cases, the United States Attorneys’ offices represent not only the fiscal

interests of the government, but also the government’s intangible interest in the implementation of lawful

policies and practices. Many defensive civil cases were handled successfully by the United States

Attorneys’ offices during Fiscal Year 1999. Some examples include:

In the Central District of California, a Title VII action was brought by a Postal

Service employee who claimed that she was sexually harassed by a co-worker. The

plaintiff alleged that her co-workers posted pictures of naked women at her workstation

over a period of months, which was proven to be fact. Plaintiff also alleged that a

co-worker followed her about the workplace making vulgar, sexual suggestions to her as

he did so, and that said co-worker also threatened her, used profanity and displayed a knife

during the course of the threats. All of the allegations were substantiated by the co-worker,

who showed two knives to the Assistant United States Attorney interviewing him, and also

volunteered a near constant flow of offensive social views and vulgar remarks during the

course of the interview. After full hearings, the Equal Employment Opportunity

Commission (EEOC) issued a finding of discrimination and requested the Postal Service

to submit its calculation of damages. The Postal Service, in its final agency decision,

rejected the EEOC’s findings based on unclear or contradictory points in the plaintiff’s

testimony, and did not submit the requested calculation. In lieu of these difficult

circumstances, a settlement was negotiated that was favorable to the United States.

In the Central District of California, the United States District Court granted the

government’s motion for summary judgment in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

action. This action, involving a classified program and classified information, was of great

importance to the Air Force. Over 8,000 pages from 800 documents were in dispute which

contained classified information relating to military plans, weapons, or operations, the

vulnerabilities or capabilities of systems, installations, projects or plans relating to national

security, scientific, technological or economic matters relating to the national security, and

information concerning intelligence activities or methods. The information was withheld

based on the national security exemption of FOIA, which exempts disclosure of

information which either by itself or in conjunction with other information, could be

expected to cause damage to national security. The Court also upheld the withholding of

certain information which fell within the deliberative process privilege and/or the safety

privilege associated with accident investigations. Finally, the Court upheld under the

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exemption which protects unwarranted invasions of personal privacy the names and

identifying information of personnel assigned to sensitive, classified or routinely deployable

units, personnel who were granted access to classified information, and the names and other

information concerning active duty military members who died in mishaps while involved

in some way with the classified program.

In the Eastern District of Texas, a bid protest was filed by Walsh Distribution,

Inc., located in Texarkana, Texas, against the United States and the Department of Veterans

Affairs alleging arbitrary and capricious procurement decisions by the federal government.

The plaintiff held the contract in one region of the country for pharmaceutical supplies and

delivery. The plaintiff sought injunctive relief in United States District Court to prevent

a new contract with another bidder from going into effect in the region for which the

plaintiff was the incumbent contractor. Following a partial hearing on the plaintiff’s

request for a preliminary injunction, a settlement was reached disposing of the suit. As an

intervenor in the case, AmeriSource, who had been the successful bidder and had been

previously awarded the new contract, was allowed to implement the new contract after a

90-day extension of the Walsh contract at a reduced rate. The projected dollar savings

produced by AmeriSource’s better offer was over $1 million per year in Region 9 alone and

a savings of $5,433,728 to the United States was projected over the five years of the

contract’s life.

In the Eastern District of Texas, a negligence action was brought against the

United States Veterans Administration for the alleged wrongful death of a mental patient

who left the premises of a hospital. The patient, who had a bipolar disorder, walked to the

street in front of the hospital and laid down beneath the rear wheels of a tractor trailer

which was stopped at a traffic light. When the light changed, the patient was crushed to

death. The plaintiffs had a hospital administrator who provided expert testimony. This

expert testified that the patient should have been on a closed ward since he had a history

of escape. The expert for the United States, a geriatric psychiatrist, held the opinion that

it was reasonable for the patient to be on an open ward since he had not demonstrated that

he was capable of endangering himself or others. The United States District Court granted

a summary judgment, finding that the plaintiffs’ expert was not qualified to give an opinion

on the relevant question, since the expert admittedly lacked qualifications to render a

medical opinion on whether a mental patient should be on a closed ward. The decision was

affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Debt Collection

During Fiscal Year 1999, more than $2.3 billion in civil and criminal debts, including those paid

to other agencies and the courts, was collected due, in part, to work by the United States Attorneys’ offices.

In addition, the offices recovered property valued at $36.5 million, for a grand total of $2,378,848,093

collected in Fiscal Year 1999. See Table 12G, Grand Totals. The grand totals on Table 12G exclude asset

forfeiture recoveries. If estimated recoveries for asset forfeiture were added to the grand totals for Fiscal

Year 1999, the amount collected would increase to $2,914,615,945. The grand total for civil and criminal

collections for Fiscal Year 1999 equaled 2.03 times the amount of the entire United States Attorneys’

operating budget nationwide, and 2.5 times the amount of the entire budget when estimated asset forfeiture

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recoveries are included. Collections Chart 1 below displays the total amount of criminal and civil debts

collected for Fiscal Years 1992 - 1999.

A significant portion of the United States Attorneys’ recoveries is the result of debt collection

litigation on behalf of federal agencies for the collection of defaulted loans, overpayments, and

administratively assessed penalties. In an effort to improve communication and coordination with the

United States Attorneys’ debt collection clients, representatives of the Executive Office for United States

Attorneys met on a regular basis throughout the year with representatives from the Departments of

Education, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, and Veterans

Affairs, the Small Business Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

In addition to collecting civil debts for federal agencies, the United States Attorneys’ offices are

responsible for enforcing the collection of unpaid fines and restitution imposed in federal court in criminal

cases. Most fine payments are deposited into the Department’s Crime Victims Fund for distribution to

state victim assistance programs. During Fiscal Year 1999, the Crime Victims Fund received deposits of

$985 million as a result of criminal prosecutions. To further this effort, the Executive Office for United

States Attorneys informed hundreds of prosecutors, probation officers, and collection personnel about new

restitution laws at local training programs sponsored by United States Attorneys’ offices throughout the

country.

The grand total of the 173,010 debts opened by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal Year 1999

amounted to over $5.8 billion. The grand total balance due on the 319,342 debts pending as of the end of

Fiscal Year 1999 was more than $15.3 billion, up from $13 billion the prior year.

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Criminal Debt Collection

Debts are ordered to be collected from a criminal defendant when the defendant is sentenced by

the court. These debts may be in the form of restitution to victims of crime, fines imposed by the court to

penalize criminals, special assessments on each criminal conviction count, costs of prosecution and other

costs, and forfeitures of appearance bonds. Interest may also be collected in certain cases as part of a

criminal debt. In instances where restitution is ordered, the United States Attorneys are involved in

collecting federal restitution payments, or restitution which is owed to the United States, and in collecting

non-federal restitution, or that which is owed to private individuals and entities.

In criminal collections, some of the work performed by the United States Attorneys involves

coordinating with victims on restitution payments, working to maximize the recovery of fines, restitution,

and special assessments, working with Probation Officers and United States Marshals to collect criminal

debts and identify assets, and coordinating with the United States Bureau of Prisons to promote prisoners’

payment of their criminal debts through the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices opened a total of 83,491 criminal

debts worth $3,983,277,391. This represents a seven percent increase in the number of criminal debts

opened and a half percent increase in the amount opened when compared to the prior year. Also during

Fiscal Year 1999, a total of 61,175 criminal debts were closed. The United States Attorneys reported

collections of $1,167,229,121 in cash and $1,512,438 worth of property, for a total of $1,168,741,559

collected in criminal cases by their offices, the Courts, and the Bureau of Prisons. The Crime Victims

Fund received funds in the amount of $985 million during Fiscal Year 1999.

A total of 172,921 criminal debts worth $13,072,980,023 were pending as of the end of Fiscal Year

1999. The number of criminal debts pending represents an increase of 11 percent when compared to the

prior year, and a 23 percent increase over the dollar amount of pending criminal debts owed as of the end

of the prior year. See Table 12C - Criminal Total. This table includes the debts on Table 12A - Criminal

Debts Owed the United States and Table 12B - Criminal Debts Owed to Third Parties.

Civil Debt Collection

The United States Attorneys are the federal government’s debt collection attorneys, responsible for

litigating civil debts for federal agencies. When, for example, federal agencies loan money and the

recipients default on repayment of the loans, or federal agencies have paid on guaranteed loans and have

not been repaid as provided for in the lending agreement, the United States Attorneys become the legal

representatives for the agencies to pursue repayment of the debts. The Departments of Agriculture,

Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Veterans

Affairs, and the Small Business Administration are some of these client agencies. Some of the work

includes filing suit to gain judgments to collect debts, foreclosing on real property, compelling physicians

either to repay or fulfill their commitment to the Public Health Service in return for education grants, suing

to set aside fraudulent transfers of property which could be used to satisfy defaulted loans, and managing

debtor repayment schedules.

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During Fiscal Year 1999, the offices opened a total of 89,519 debts worth $1,827,280,113 in the

civil collections system, representing an 69 percent increase in the number of debts opened and a eight

percent increase in the value of the debts opened when compared to the prior year. The United States

Attorneys collected $1,175,104,383 in payments to satisfy civil debts during Fiscal Year 1999.

Additionally, $35,002,150 in property was collected, for a total of $1,210,106,533 collected. As a result

of collections, debts returned to agencies, assists by other districts, and debts closed as uncollectible, the

United States Attorneys were able to close 27,750 debts during the year. As of the end of Fiscal Year

1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices had a total of 146,421 pending civil debts worth more than $2.2

billion. This represents a 67 percent increase in the number of outstanding civil debts when compared to

the prior year. See Table 12F - Civil Total. This table includes the debts shown in Table 12D -

Bankruptcies and Foreclosures, and Table 12E - Other Civil Debts.

Bankruptcy and Foreclosure

The Administrative Office of the United States Courts reported 1,354,376 filings in United States

Bankruptcy Court during Fiscal Year 1999. This represents a decrease of 82,588, or six percent, in the

number of filings when compared to Fiscal Year 1998. It is in the vital interest of the United States to have

a strong voice in bankruptcy proceedings. One of the primary purposes of bankruptcy proceedings is to

ensure an equitable distribution of assets to creditors. The United States usually participates in the

bankruptcy process as a creditor for unpaid taxes and government loans. If creditors step forward to have

their debts accounted for and considered in bankruptcy proceedings, and the interests of the United States

are involved, the United States Attorneys must be among the attorneys of the creditors and be resolute in

representing the government in such proceedings.

The United States becomes involved in foreclosure actions in both affirmative and defensive roles.

If a federal agency must foreclose on federally-mortgaged property to collect the mortgage loan or to

collect a mortgage loan guaranteed by the federal government, the United States Attorney represents the

plaintiff federal agency by suing to foreclose on the property which secures the loan. The United States

also may be a defendant in a foreclosure action brought by another where the United States has a secured

interest in the property which is subject to foreclosure.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys collected $116,775,250 in bankruptcy and

foreclosure debts, and recovered property worth an additional $26,444,190 for a total of $143,219,440

collected. As of the end of Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices had a total of 1,548

pending bankruptcy and foreclosure debts.

Private Counsel Debt Collection Program

The Private Counsel Debt Collection Program, which authorizes the referral of certain federal debts

to private attorneys for enforced collection, continued in operation during Fiscal Year 1999. The United

States Attorneys’ offices that participate in the program include those in the Central District of California

(Los Angeles), the Northern District of California (San Francisco), the District of Columbia (Washington,

D.C.), the Middle District of Florida (Tampa), the Southern District of Florida (Miami), the Northern

District of Illinois (Chicago), the Eastern District of Michigan (Detroit), the District of New Jersey

(Newark), the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), the Northern District of New York (Syracuse),

the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), and the Southern District of Texas (Houston). The

debts that were referred to private counsel are included in the Table 12 collections data.

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V. CRIMINAL AND CIVIL APPEALS

Criminal Appeals

Appeals, in general, are very time consuming, requiring a thorough review of the entire

record in the case, the filing of a brief and reply brief and, in most cases, participation in an oral

argument which requires travel to the city where the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit

is located. Furthermore, the complexity of appellate work and the time required to handle that work

increases when convictions are based on complex facts such as those found in organized crime drug

enforcement and other narcotics cases, financial institution fraud, organized crime, armed career

criminal, public corruption, health care fraud, and computer fraud cases.

As a result of the implementation of the Sentencing Guidelines in November 1987, Assistant

United States Attorneys now spend far more time than before on sentencing issues, such as preparing

sentencing memoranda, conducting lengthy sentencing hearings, and handling sentencing appeals.

While deemed necessary, the additional sentencing and sentencing appeals work associated with the

Sentencing Guidelines has affected the United States Attorneys’ ability to pursue the investigation

and prosecution of more cases.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys handled a total of 8,830 criminal

appeals filed by or against the United States, representing a three percent increase when compared

to Fiscal Year 1998. This increase in appeals follows that of Fiscal Year 1998, when the number

of criminal appeals handled by the United States Attorneys had also increased by 12 percent over the

prior year. See Appeals Chart 1 below. The 8,830 appeals handled during Fiscal Year 1999

represents a 127 percent increase since the Sentencing Guidelines went into effect.

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A total of 8,073 appeals were terminated during Fiscal Year 1999, representing an increase

of 11 percent in the number of appeals terminated when compared to Fiscal Year 1998. The United

States Courts of Appeals ruled in favor of the United States in 6,739, or 83 percent of the appeals

terminated during the year. See Table 7.

The largest category of criminal appeals filed during Fiscal Year 1999 was narcotics, which

accounted for 3,678, or 42 percent, of all criminal appeals filed during the year. See Appeals Chart

2 below. Other large categories of criminal appeals included violent crime, with 1,932 appeals filed

in Fiscal Year 1999, and white collar crime, with 983 appeals filed during the year. Also during

Fiscal Year 1999, the number of immigration appeals increased to 953, or by 49 percent, following

a 79 percent increase in Fiscal Year 1998 over Fiscal Year 1997.

Examples of criminal appeals successfully handled by the United States Attorneys during

Fiscal Year 1999 include:

In the District of Idaho, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth

Circuit upheld the conviction of former Boise resident for possession of child

pornography. The defendant was sentenced to 15 months in prison after admitting

that he downloaded child pornography from the Internet "almost daily" between April

and June of 1996. The defendant was caught when a computer repair shop employee

found suspicious images and called police. A detective found pornographic images

on the computer's hard drive and retrieved other images from erased disks. In his

appeal, the defendant contended that the trial judge incorrectly attributed the

pornography on the erased disks to him. The United States Court of Appeals ruled

that the fact that the defendant had eventually erased the disks did not negate the fact

that he used them to intentionally download the images.

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In the Northern District of Iowa, the first conviction in the nation under the

Lautenberg Amendment of the Violence Against Women Act was affirmed by the

United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in a decision that upheld the

statute against a host of constitutional and legal challenges. The defendant was

sentenced to four years and three months in prison for possessing a firearm after

having been previously convicted of an assault involving domestic abuse. In

November 1996, the defendant shot his wife in the chest. The bullet passed close to

her heart and aorta, breaking a rib and puncturing her left lung. Two years earlier,

the defendant had been convicted in state court for an assault on the same victim.

The United States District Court found that the defendant had intentionally shot his

wife and that "if ever there was a case that showed the wisdom of Congress in

enacting a law this case is it." The Court of Appeals decision explicitly held that the

statute is not vague and applies to anyone convicted of a simple assault on an

intimate partner, even where the perpetrator/victim relationship was not an element

of the offense under state law.

In the District of New Jersey, in a case in which the United States filed an

amicus brief supporting the position that New Jersey's Megan's Law did not violate

the plaintiffs' federal privacy rights, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third

Circuit affirmed that position holding that "to the extent that plaintiffs' alleged injury

stems from the disclosure of their sex offender status, alone or in conjunction with

other information," it did not violate a right to privacy. The Court ruled that while

home addresses may be entitled to some privacy protection, any privacy interest was

outweighed by the government's compelling interest in preventing sex offenses. The

Court rejected plaintiffs' claim that community notification infringed on their

fundamental interest in their familial relationships, finding that the effects were

indirect and caused by the offenders' own crimes. Finally, the Court refused to grant

plaintiffs' many motions to supplement the record with examples of particular

complaints by registrants, instead remanding the case to the United States District

Court to consider the need for the scope of the community notification ordered and

ensure that information was disclosed only to those who have a particular need for

it. The United States District Judge, sitting by designation, concurred because he was

bound by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit’s prior holding that

community notification under Megan's Law was not punishment.

Post-Sentencing Motions

Between Fiscal Year 1988, when the Sentencing Guidelines went into effect, and Fiscal Year

1997, there was a dramatic increase year to year in the number of post-sentencing motions filed by

incarcerated defendants under 28 U.S.C. § 2255. These motions, filed by defendants primarily to

vacate a sentence, increased from 1,500 in Fiscal Year 1988 to 10,974 in Fiscal Year 1997, or a 632

percent increase. In Fiscal Year 1997 alone, the number increased by 2,342, or 27 percent, when

compared with the prior year. See Appeals Chart 3 below. These post-sentencing motions are in

addition to the criminal appeals discussed above. The work required of Assistant United States

Attorneys to respond to these motions is time consuming and burdensome.

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The Prison Litigation Reform Act, which included provisions intended to curb abuses and

excesses in prisoner litigation, was enacted in Fiscal Year 1996, and was expected to result in a

reduction in post-sentencing motions. The Act required that prisoners pursue an administrative

claim before a complaint could be filed in United States District Court, made prisoners responsible

for filing fees, and subjected prisoners to sanctions for frequent and frivolous claims. However, two

factors, perhaps among others, caused the number of motions to continue to increase during Fiscal

Years 1996 and 1997. The United States Supreme Court’s decision in Bailey, which changed in a

major way how the law was viewed in firearms cases, resulted in the subsequent filing of additional

post-sentencing motions. This decision led many inmates who had received enhanced penalties to

file for sentence reductions. Additionally, because the newly enacted Prison Litigation Reform Act

included a one-year statute of limitations, many incarcerated defendants and defense lawyers quickly

filed hundreds of motions.

The reduction in the volume of prisoner litigation that was expected after the Prison

Litigation Reform Act was enacted appears to have occurred during Fiscal Year 1998 and again in

Fiscal Year 1999. During Fiscal Year 1998, 7,592 post-sentencing motions were filed, a decrease

of 3,382, or 31 percent, when compared to the prior year. In Fiscal Year 1999, this decrease

continued with 6,652 motions filed showing a further decline of 12 percent when compared to Fiscal

Year 1998. See Appeals Chart 3 below. Nonetheless, the 6,652 motions filed in Fiscal Year 1999

represents a 343 percent increase over Fiscal Year 1988 when the Sentencing Guidelines went into

effect.

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Civil Appeals

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys’ offices also handled a total of 6,293

civil appeals filed by or against the United States. This represents a decrease of six percent in the

number of appeals handled when compared to the prior year. See Appeals Chart 4 below. The

United States Attorneys terminated 5,809 civil appeals during the year, an increase of 12 percent

when compared to the prior year. Of the appeals terminated during the year, 4,558, or 78 percent,

were decided in favor of the United States. See Table 7.

Examples of civil appeals successfully handled by the United States Attorneys during Fiscal

Year 1999 include:

In the District of Colorado, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth

Circuit affirmed the United States District Court's decision holding that the U.S.

Department of Agriculture's Forest Service complied with all relevant laws in

analyzing and permitting an expansion of the ski resort at Vail, Colorado. Colorado

Environmental Coalition, in league with a number of other groups, had filed suit in

a last-gasp attempt to stop work on the expansion, alleging that it would destroy the

natural habitat of the lynx population.

In the Northern District of Ohio, the United States Court of Appeals for the

Sixth Circuit upheld a United States District Court decision which ordered

defendants to make restitution to consumers under the federal Food Drug and

Cosmetics Act. The Court’s decision is significant because it was the first time a

federal appeals court addressed the question of whether a United States District Court

can order restitution under the Act. The case resulted from the defendants marketing

a device known as “The Stimulator.” The device was essentially a gas-grill igniter

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fitted with finger grips and sold as a pain-relieving device. The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) sought a permanent injunction prohibiting sale of the device

because the FDA contended that the Stimulator was a medical device subject to FDA

regulations. In May 1995, the Stimulator marketers were aware that the FDA

believed the device was being marketed illegally and was subject to FDA approval,

because the United States Attorney’s office for the Northern District of Ohio had

initiated an action in which Stimulators, valued at $1.2 million, were seized and

destroyed by the United States Marshals Service. The FDA alleged that the company

knew that it was marketing the device illegally and should be required to make

restitution to consumers. The United States District Court issued a preliminary

injunction banning further sales in January 1997 and issued a permanent injunction

in December 1997. The grant of summary judgment resulted in a permanent

injunction prohibiting further sales of the Stimulator and an order that defendants

make refunds to consumers who requested them.

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VI. RECONCILIATION OF FEDERAL CASE PROCESSING DATA

The Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Administrative Office of the United States

Courts, and United States Sentencing Commission each collect data describing criminal case processing

events. However, different methods of reporting and different definitions are used to identify, tabulate and

report the information based on the specific needs and missions of the individual agencies. For example,

the Administrative Office of the United States Courts publishes data that identifies cases based upon the

criminal charge carrying the longest sentence that could be imposed. In contrast, the Executive Office for

United States Attorneys, which maintains case data for the 94 United States Attorneys’ offices, publishes

criminal case and defendant data based upon program categories or criminal case types, such as violent

crime, official corruption, or organized crime. See Table 3. As a result of such differences, data published

by these three agencies are not readily comparable.

The Executive Office for United States Attorneys started classifying case and defendant data by

program category, or criminal case type, in Fiscal Year 1992. Prior to that, the data was classified and

displayed by criminal offense. Also in Fiscal Year 1992, greater emphasis was placed on the prosecution

of violent crime. This resulted in a change in the way some criminal cases, primarily narcotics cases, were

classified. Those cases involving narcotics that would otherwise be classified as narcotics cases based on

the statutes charged were classified as violent crime cases if the defendants were also charged with a

firearms offense or other violent crime, such as murder. Thus, beginning in Fiscal Year 1992, not all

narcotics cases or cases in which narcotics offenses were charged were classified and displayed under the

Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs or the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force program categories

on Table 3.

Beginning in Fiscal Year 1996, in an effort to eliminate confusion and display both violent crime

and narcotics case data without double counting, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys further

broke out Table 3 to show those narcotics cases included under the Violent Crime program category. This

display of the case data allows users of Table 3 to see all narcotics cases without losing information on an

equally important criminal prosecution area, violent crime. The display also shows those narcotics cases

classified under the Government Regulatory Offense/Money Laundering program category. It should be

emphasized that the new display of data on Table 3 does not result in the double counting of cases. The

Executive Office for United States Attorneys has not double counted cases in the past and has maintained

its long-standing policy that cases should not be double counted in developing data on Table 3.

The Attorney General recognizes the need for greater consistency in the way the federal criminal

agencies capture and report information and, to this end, called on components of the Department of

Justice, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, and United States Sentencing Commission to

work together to address the issue of data reconciliation. During Fiscal Years 1997 and 1998,

representatives of this interagency Data Reconciliation Working Group met on a regular basis to identify

data differences and try to make the data more compatible and readily understandable. The working group

provided a report to the Attorney General, entitled Comparing Case Processing Statistics, that summarized

the findings of the working group in identifying data differences. A copy of the report is provided on the

following pages. The working group also conducted a comparison of terminated defendants contained in

the Executive Office for United States Attorneys and Administrative Office of the United States Courts’

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databases for four judicial districts. This comparison showed that the majority of defendants matched.

For a complete discussion of the reconciliation of federal case processing statistics, see the report

Reconciling Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics, which was published by the Department of

Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics in September 1999.

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U.S. Department of Justice

Washington, D.C.

Comparing Case Processing Statistics

Com

arison of the number of defendants

rocessed b

Federal a

encies, 1996

All offenses Drug trafficking offenses only



58,141 67,700 NA NA 20,788 21,528 NA NA

52,366 62,946 NA NA 18,692 19,267 NA NA

45,380 52,270 42,436 NA 16,083 16,461 16,251 NA

33,136 37,579 33,962 35,254 14,432 15,535 15,371 15,203

Comparing published Federal case processing statistics

Tally of defendants and cases processed

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VII. CONCLUSION

The United States Attorneys’ Annual Statistical Report is intended to provide a narrative and

statistical summary of the work of the United States Attorneys’ offices during Fiscal Year 1999. The

report serves to illustrate the many prosecution and litigation accomplishments achieved by the men and

women who work in the offices. The report also addresses the significant, and critically important, liaison

work that is performed by the United States Attorneys and their staffs with federal, state, and local law

enforcement officials, the victims of crime, the local communities, schools, and other organizations.

During Fiscal Year 1999, the United States Attorneys continued to implement the Attorney

General’s Anti-Violent Crime Initiative. Within the violent crime category, the United States Attorneys

addressed the continuing, illegal use of firearms by those who perpetrate crimes and accompanying acts

of violence in our communities. The United States Attorneys began working with the Bureau of Alcohol,

Tobacco and Firearms in each district on the development of an Integrated Firearms Violence Reduction

Strategy. The United States Attorneys utilized tough federal penalties to prosecute firearms and other

violent offenders, worked to dismantle violent criminal gangs, and helped protect women and children

from violence and abuse. Drug prosecutions continued to be a priority of the United States Attorneys with

a focus on large drug organizations. The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces targeted these

groups and made significant progress during Fiscal Year 1999. The United States Attorneys continued

their immigration initiatives and to work with other Department components to secure the country’s

borders. They also continued to prosecute vigorously white collar crime, official corruption, and civil

rights violations. Important new initiative of the Attorney General, such as the Internet Fraud Initiative,

and Project Save Our Children Task Forces, were implemented during the year.

In the judicial asset forfeiture area, the United States Attorneys used both the criminal and civil

asset forfeiture laws to strip away, by court procedures containing due process protection, criminally used

and criminally acquired property from drug dealers, money launderers, racketeers, and other criminals.

The United States Attorneys asserted and defended the interests of the United States through their

work in the civil arena. During the year, the United States Attorneys continued their work in affirmative

civil enforcement (ACE). ACE is important as a powerful legal tool to help ensure that federal funds are

recovered, that federal laws are obeyed, and that violators provide compensation to the government for

losses and damages they cause as a result of fraud, waste and abuse of government funds and resources.

The United States Attorneys also continued to aggressively pursue criminal and civil debts due to

the government. In Fiscal Year 1999, the offices together collected more than $2.3 billion due the United

States, an amount far exceeding the total annual budget for all United States Attorneys’ offices.

As this Annual Statistical Report illustrates, the United States Attorneys and their staffs recorded

significant accomplishments in their role of prosecuting those who violate our nation’s laws, asserting and

defending the interests of the United States in civil litigation, and representing the United States in our

appellate courts. The statistics provided here, the accompanying narrative, and the summaries of cases,

represent the outstanding work that has been performed by the United States Attorneys and their staffs

throughout the country.

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VIII. DETAILED STATISTICAL TABLES

Index

Table Page

Number Number

1 Criminal Cases Handled by United States Attorneys 101

2 Disposition of Criminal Cases and Defendants in U.S. District Court 104

2A Disposition of Criminal Cases and Defendants in U.S. Magistrate Court 107

3 Criminal Cases and Defendants in U.S. District Court 110

3A Criminal Cases in Which a Firearms Offense was Charged 112

3B Criminal Cases and Defendants in U.S. District Court by Referring Agency 113

4 Civil Cases Handled by United States Attorneys 114

5 Civil Matters and Cases by Cause of Action 117

6 Civil Matters and Cases by Referring Agency 119

7 Appeals Filed and Closed by United States Attorneys 121

8 Cases Filed in U.S. District and State Courts 124

9 Cases Terminated in U.S. District and State Courts 127

10 Cases Pending in U.S. District and State Courts 130

11 Grand Jury Proceedings and Criminal and Civil Matters Received 133

12 United States Attorney Debt Collection

12A Criminal Debts Owed the United States 136

12B Criminal Debts Owed to Third Parties 139

12C Criminal Total 142

12D Bankruptcies and Foreclosures 145

12E Other Civil Debts 148

12F Civil Total 151

12G Grand Total 154

12H Criminal Debts in Suspense 157

13 United States Attorneys’ Court-Related Work Hours 160

14 Criminal Matters Pending Aged by Date Received 163

15 Criminal Cases Pending Aged by Date Received 166

16 Civil Matters Pending Aged by Date Received 169

17 Civil Cases Pending Aged by Date Received 172

18 Criminal Matters Declined - Immediate and Later Declinations by Reason 175

19 Criminal Matters Declined - Immediate and Later Declinations by Agency 176

20 Asset Forfeiture Actions Handled by United States Attorneys 177

Table 1

Criminal Cases Handled By United States Attorneys

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

Criminal Defendants in 1/Criminal Defendants inCriminal Cases in

- - - - - United States Magistrate Court - - - - -- - - - - United States District Court - - - - -- - - - - United States District Court - - - - -

EndBeginEndBeginEndBegin

PendingTerminated 4/FiledPendingPendingTerminated 3/Filed 2/PendingPendingTerminated 3/Filed 2/PendingDistrict

66128127671381921451858911074125Alabama, Middle

66455061354364456262263264336191Alabama, Northern

611710258363307314171210185196Alabama, Southern

26334415171242279134128188208108Alaska

5637458544542,8473,2733,6462,4741,9252,6362,8591,702Arizona

21252917302368292378196207207196Arkansas, Eastern

202026141121521641009113213093Arkansas, Western

1,4498761,0641,2613,4221,7511,9123,2612,1891,2081,2852,112California, Central

3851952143661,2229641,0241,162751711767695California, Eastern

7152344764731,8765919371,5301,173338674837California, Northern

7206747036913,2394,3884,4303,1972,2753,7373,7932,219California, Southern

1445547152911503605809471392376487Colorado

1163628124517332376473304218234288Connecticut

2735293395891028275768071Delaware

77162128111813581663731588439469558District of Columbia

12255691081,9902,0291,8482,1711,2571,3811,1821,456Florida, Middle

7410213046534444479499342280290332Florida, Northern

3254965113105,5062,3772,5875,2963,3471,4441,5343,257Florida, Southern

61210167104445364291518258183175266Georgia, Middle

2333303641991,3007881,163925689577756510Georgia, Northern

1778620558193240263170123139161101Georgia, Southern

21313715186221216191144162139167Guam

77676168684734362377719596236264568Hawaii

4162604316219920715494145124115Idaho

27494729378342414306308277335250Illinois, Central

5671192754111,4377949251,306920527598849Illinois, Northern

21293119353403448308235285319201Illinois, Southern

2350376411432355263302324241Indiana, Northern

44274130225280296209117192177132Indiana, Southern

10141113265203261207215154214155Iowa, Northern

3544313435478270202260287175Iowa, Southern

27102215433463506390313338363288Kansas

17403819522516610428351388424315Kentucky, Eastern

Table 1 (Continued)

Criminal Defendants in 1/Criminal Defendants inCriminal Cases in

- - - - - United States Magistrate Court - - - - -- - - - - United States District Court - - - - -- - - - - United States District Court - - - - -

EndBeginEndBeginEndBegin

PendingTerminated 4/FiledPendingPendingTerminated 3/Filed 2/PendingPendingTerminated 3/Filed 2/PendingDistrict

36252140245323304264174227225176Kentucky, Western

19788611636414522528342254307289Louisiana, Eastern

3764145179214110130166196100Louisiana, Middle

182792823151361278350289176193201168Louisiana, Western

1034281615114919610412413416791Maine

658440932166758659691726479470504445Maryland

11448541081,144521733932558352413497Massachusetts

1,0795116839071,7066981,0131,391909486619776Michigan, Eastern

52697348343337382298215233241207Michigan, Western

01019433543475501279330301308Minnesota

0550921651491087511112066Mississippi, Northern

26535227289410424275218246279185Mississippi, Southern

71727865472766749489354565576343Missouri, Eastern

28203018552492607437339313375277Missouri, Western

22374217400378444334219215244190Montana

19132210647464501610460330370420Nebraska

2162362881641,4474437821,108877320530667Nevada

511124185163169179162124150136New Hampshire

4062452124391,1538178551,115809597674732New Jersey

3142854741251,5521,3541,7481,1581,1021,1131,388827New Mexico

1,3232584671,1143,5031,5531,7833,2731,9581,0601,1271,891New York, Eastern

101111152601,018824892950532559620471New York, Northern

1,1103765159715,8511,6392,0165,4743,5891,1421,4173,314New York, Southern

234139249124694310432572415210300325New York, Western

2510210423429497504422271322331262North Carolina, Eastern

1024286268556449375199374330243North Carolina, Middle

36293332954748730972484291360415North Carolina, Western

7111621292292391198618617993North Dakota

211418177253913435364922Northern Mariana Islands

721119786499758708549318516493341Ohio, Northern

161151194118449662522589309439373375Ohio, Southern

35356994937052807953Oklahoma, Eastern

6556305210291224176133155154Oklahoma, Northern

65665972243292309226174230245159Oklahoma, Western

93749275938886970854737752818671Oregon

Table 1 (Continued)

Criminal Defendants in 1/Criminal Defendants inCriminal Cases in

- - - - - United States Magistrate Court - - - - -- - - - - United States District Court - - - - -- - - - - United States District Court - - - - -

EndBeginEndBeginEndBegin

PendingTerminated 4/FiledPendingPendingTerminated 3/Filed 2/PendingPendingTerminated 3/Filed 2/PendingDistrict

924956851,6328551,1211,3661,002567706863Pennsylvania, Eastern

33485130447415471391306319341284Pennsylvania, Middle

38242537344335347332252250253249Pennsylvania, Western

315459261,3756991,0421,032427279394312Puerto Rico

0211120159149130101133120114Rhode Island

135145186941,0861,0891,1111,064693686673706South Carolina

8292215276499489286227409407229South Dakota

16383915419527479467278324347255Tennessee, Eastern

25151921321200295226213166210169Tennessee, Middle

15242514510496582424341325361305Tennessee, Western

50434449527691666552364417470311Texas, Eastern

13376115941,3201,2921,4331,179869849936782Texas, Northern

2052833111773,9003,8284,2543,4742,8452,9833,3362,492Texas, Southern

9422,8242,9797874,0794,4754,9843,5702,9643,5313,8792,616Texas, Western

284249326207675552685542520493573440Utah

14202311236167171232157100110147Vermont

28293522215490528177174468494148Virgin Islands

2,1712,5823,2541,4991,1481,2791,3841,043780918946752Virginia, Eastern

7325027548568362484446320203283240Virginia, Western

13252216252341348245252341348245Washington, Eastern

198462477183782704848638511602650463Washington, Western

8695208199260147137119149107West Virginia, Northern

9333210221282315188157201224134West Virginia, Southern

57617048243301277267177214208183Wisconsin, Eastern

2349413196162122136691129685Wisconsin, Western

23596121181230239172120169166123Wyoming

18,10016,96420,52214,54280,94264,51771,56073,89952,05546,42350,77947,699All Districts

1/ Magistrate Court cases do not include petty offenses.

2/ Includes 857 cases or 914 defendants initiated by transfer under Rule 20.

3/ Includes 474 cases or 595 defendants terminated by transfer under Rule 20

4/ Includes 83 cases or 85 defendants terminated by transfer under Rule 20

Table 2

Disposition of Criminal Cases and Defendants in United States District Court

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

- - - Disposition - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Defendants - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Cases - - - - - - - - - -

After JuryAfter CourtNotNot

TrialsTrialsOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyDistrict

180012351630112196Alabama, Middle

39101043430708292225Alabama, Northern

2208251130142261177Alabama, Southern

7512637218555252151Alaska

4511311224113,02411015192,465Arizona

30509551728709338157Arkansas, Eastern

113121001391240125Arkansas, Western

114381667201,6408134571,135California, Central

32605871086204495653California, Eastern

1611071110913632110391267California, Northern

1361605270264,08704155183,560California, Southern

185118977380116496320Colorado

3304722529424144194Connecticut

61103111740310162Delaware

41312661749512457384District of Columbia

132864497341,8482316261,280Florida, Middle

7542510114162465263Florida, Northern

2752134136482,15801664211,343Florida, Southern

2410475528003282150Georgia, Middle

4340781569506465520Georgia, Northern

2512228120711140123Georgia, Southern

1402331717813131144Guam

2100916233504111220Hawaii

28141423416713201120Idaho

1501135130411291245Illinois, Central

8180738474507261493Illinois, Northern

2400316438003104268Illinois, Southern

3920541336205283266Indiana, Northern

1631128524501163172Indiana, Southern

2300012019100100144Iowa, Northern

3405332838713153238Iowa, Southern

4120232742202206310Kansas

242184654425114373333Kentucky, Eastern

Table 2 (Continued)

- - - Disposition - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Defendants - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Cases - - - - - - - - - -

After JuryAfter CourtNotNot

TrialsTrialsOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyDistrict

3320526928304125206Kentucky, Western

1810817638306103235Louisiana, Eastern

523122015321190144Louisiana, Middle

36005361022704144171Louisiana, Western

7024821332382119Maine

87111588456105633399Maryland

2701632447806191326Massachusetts

46125841359414574420Michigan, Eastern

2410326430403202208Michigan, Western

67209331149007178298Minnesota

16030761493044100Mississippi, Northern

2917657633454264207Mississippi, Southern

38111163169014471512Missouri, Eastern

2920621246303151294Missouri, Western

56711711828711358170Montana

19131437641613184304Nebraska

1721447438714233289Nevada

701221213702181103New Hampshire

5120736776706243564New Jersey

271128751,259115441,053New Mexico

8011252151,483022551,028New York, Eastern

1300160276101331524New York, Northern

106211561211,54101239131,078New York, Southern

14031952923021204New York, Western

362014194460012112297North Carolina, Eastern

4010931251409190346North Carolina, Middle

4900646868805203263North Carolina, Western

10150322320103171165North Dakota

300018035008028Northern Mariana Islands

464115418693111204480Ohio, Northern

3602747560105165413Ohio, Southern

6011152750110267Oklahoma, Eastern

192221911861180123Oklahoma, Northern

284171532660761216Oklahoma, Western

3161858381616431701Oregon

Table 2 (Continued)

- - - Disposition - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Defendants - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Cases - - - - - - - - - -

After JuryAfter CourtNotNot

TrialsTrialsOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyDistrict

691092816802082311525Pennsylvania, Eastern

1644730437026173291Pennsylvania, Middle

1900741428305344207Pennsylvania, Western

64200821160600242253Puerto Rico

12211115014211120119Rhode Island

46301713759300131022569South Carolina

4911133511449133210363South Dakota

5412659945116314282Tennessee, Eastern

1601223217202181145Tennessee, Middle

24101105938100456274Tennessee, Western

42213657461124252384Texas, Eastern

503317120121,1403126311760Texas, Northern

14523218424443,340018269252,671Texas, Southern

15225511226334,20029127233,370Texas, Western

1551867547118453436Utah

1100260159003097Vermont

1400129545501192446Virgin Islands

11526211119111,136187510824Virginia, Eastern

354052163300492188Virginia, Western

1330130530501305305Washington, Eastern

196016443641016362548Washington, Western

110013121650191108West Virginia, Northern

1830226425001203177West Virginia, Southern

1502318327522143193Wisconsin, Eastern

24115751440511105Wisconsin, Western

24104652150422161Wyoming

3,7203632605955,08670057,8761044743,00638042,459All Districts

Not guilty counts include 20 verdicts of not guilty by reason of insanity involving 20 defendants.

Other dispositions include transfers, dismissals other than by court, pretrial diversions, and proceedings suspended indefinitely by court.

Table 2A

Disposition of Criminal Cases and Defendants in United States Magistrate Court

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

- - - Disposition - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Defendants - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Cases - - - - - - - - - -

After JuryAfter CourtNotNot

TrialsTrialsOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyDistrict

0300470810042077Alabama, Middle

0000300150026011Alabama, Northern

002060310603Alabama, Southern

1471130125111012Alaska

1055216805202711380495Arizona

01002005002004Arkansas, Eastern

01301106301006Arkansas, Western

0863902201166110168116California, Central

21112460411544514106California, Eastern

02401143149221137146California, Northern

0010810542703490103278033California, Southern

1150370133030013Colorado

00303201103101Connecticut

0260190103017010Delaware

0370670885044070District of Columbia

03524404223704Florida, Middle

4945194704514470Florida, Northern

124093770737534807Florida, Southern

031034017510280172Georgia, Middle

0417171110411655100041Georgia, Northern

1232150663214066Georgia, Southern

00412402411302Guam

002532402417318024Hawaii

11122282282226225Idaho

0015026081401608Illinois, Central

002011502209502Illinois, Northern

00120170080900Illinois, Southern

000010200101Indiana, Northern

00502200101900Indiana, Southern

014160341403Iowa, Northern

002030020300Iowa, Southern

002060220302Kansas

0018020111701511Kentucky, Eastern

Table 2A (Continued)

- - - Disposition - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Defendants - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Cases - - - - - - - - - -

After JuryAfter CourtNotNot

TrialsTrialsOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyDistrict

01101518101513Kentucky, Western

03006171005151Louisiana, Eastern

000060100501Louisiana, Middle

08261233658161223648Louisiana, Western

02130811220509Maine

03570075436100754356Maryland

00923304723103Massachusetts

07613471021513427021Michigan, Eastern

0241350293131029Michigan, Western

0200001000009Minnesota

120000500005Mississippi, Northern

1161512101613117016Mississippi, Southern

00416403315203Missouri, Eastern

026071640516Missouri, Western

2620130222010020Montana

014060340603Nebraska

0142472115724651154Nevada

000380002600New Hampshire

01018135092016130090New Jersey

02109113204329184043New Mexico

008401740048013400New York, Eastern

0000480630037060New York, Northern

001341215026171131026New York, Southern

00242701062422075New York, Western

0010200811013079North Carolina, Eastern

01012201011801North Carolina, Middle

1000140150013012North Carolina, Western

022220512205North Dakota

00001400001100Northern Mariana Islands

021518501012181010Ohio, Northern

0371581846152184Ohio, Southern

010130101301Oklahoma, Eastern

001130001300Oklahoma, Northern

101114419014118Oklahoma, Western

071743821315436213Oregon

Table 2A (Continued)

- - - Disposition - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Defendants - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - Criminal Cases - - - - - - - - - -

After JuryAfter CourtNotNot

TrialsTrialsOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyOtherRule 20DismissedGuiltyGuiltyDistrict

0002340130234013Pennsylvania, Eastern

0141171254116117Pennsylvania, Middle

01202002202002Pennsylvania, Western

0032427003241900Puerto Rico

000020000200Rhode Island

1273362975330292South Carolina

1200122150011215South Dakota

0333130193212015Tennessee, Eastern

00401100301000Tennessee, Middle

02321306321105Tennessee, Western

0231270122123012Texas, Eastern

0140501214041120Texas, Northern

006024003730139033Texas, Southern

6232310376112,4041710311102,376Texas, Western

0624133110923128097Utah

0050201320208Vermont

001111502711102Virgin Islands

2500248738221,790228726221,777Virginia, Eastern

0290159218801592187Virginia, Western

0010011131001113Washington, Eastern

01661150335161120334Washington, Western

000150001500West Virginia, Northern

001901301801001West Virginia, Southern

00505303304902Wisconsin, Eastern

0150180265017026Wisconsin, Western

0242141381212137Wyoming

281,0892,1752755,943738,4981,6862654,981708,249All Districts

Magistrate Court case data does not include petty offenses.

Other dispositions include transfers, dismissals other than by court, pretrial diversions, and proceedings suspended indefinitely by court.

Table 3

Criminal Cases and Defendants in United States District Court

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

- - - - - - - - - - Dispositions - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - Defendants - - - - -- - - - - Cases - - - - -

OtherRule 20Dismissed 4/ Not Guilty 3/GuiltyTerminated 2/ Filed 1/Terminated 2/ Filed 1/Program Category

82101191268480337337326Assimilated Crimes

01221913117315895101Civil Rights Prosecutions

829208352,2652,5452,5561,7531,784Government Regulatory Offenses - Total 5/

01103739362930 Copyright Violations

3147081,1011,1961,192816830 Counterfeiting

02140106122988070 Customs Violations - Duty

00120241253260204211 Customs Violations - Currency

000066464 Energy Pricing and Related Fraud

435210351420440280278 Environmental Offenses

11102831751942 Health and Safety Violations

021311031191207881 Money Laundering - Narcotics

011271201401498894 Money Laundering - Other

0212116314144 Trafficking in Contraband Cigarettes

03218156188178139140 Other Regulatory Offenses

16154943911,20611,77012,65010,76911,580Immigration

0010161717917Internal Security Offenses

16286344385405234227Interstate Theft

133114215011114198Labor Management Offenses - Total

000022222 Corruption - Bribery

00204547404430 Corruption - Pension Benefit

0000101012910 Labor Racketeering

13118591578656 Other Labor Offenses

701142,19923623,13325,75229,84614,80016,617All Drug Offenses - Total

2637647696,2327,0119,2222,4593,270 Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force

44771,55216716,90118,74120,62412,34113,347 Non-OCDETF Drugs - Subtotal

40721,51416216,48918,27720,09212,01212,991 Drug Dealing

45385412464532329356 Drug Possession

165223580662738477535Official Corruption - Total

003178821165876 Federal Procurement

021012931171117466 Federal Program

00523239483237 Federal Law Enforcement

03172135157155132138 Federal Corruption Other

00102123135166100128 Local Corruption

10446069854356 State Corruption

01305963573834 Other Official Corruption

222921308362429173209Organized Crime

Table 3 (Continued)

- - - - - - - - - - Dispositions - - - - - - - - - -

Not- - - - - Defendants - - - - -- - - - - Cases - - - - -

OtherRule 20Dismissed 4/ Guilty 3/GuiltyTerminated 2/ Filed 1/Terminated 2/ Filed 1/Program Category

322158161,6281,8272,0191,4871,571Theft - Total

21087121,1011,2121,3299881,050 Checks/Postal

001101031142215896 Motor Vehicle Theft

112604424501469441425 Theft of Government Property

311417171887,3278,4049,1756,5397,392Violent Crime - Total 5/

315727602690691632620 Violent Indian Offenses

02557538602593269278 Violent Crime Non-OCDETF Drugs

101841631861236062 Violent Crime OCDETF Drugs

0483981131374857 Violent Crime Organized Crime

00112527292225 Violent Crime Financial Institution Fraud

271345781465,9016,7867,6025,5086,350 Violent Crime Other

02150146163164126126Other Indian Offenses

32156563827,3098,1428,6706,3116,558White Collar Crime - Total

061701391621249682 Advance Fee Schemes

213303625673712496498 Fraud Against Business Institutions

00504853263718 Antitrust Violations

1053188172,7142,9823,1922,4002,469 Bank Fraud and Embezzlement

00232163188202161184 Bankruptcy Fraud

00112426311716 Commodities Fraud

138071831036068 Computer Fraud

05162184207175133125 Consumer Fraud

08184841141417897 Federal Procurement Fraud

1168210750859896692710 Federal Program Fraud

393214396454504300370 Health Care Fraud

15254222257207158130 Insurance Fraud

022271771085775 Other Investment Fraud

114112613331696175 Securities Fraud

593612828890898756765 Tax Fraud

82676108649841,035774776 Other Fraud

1388478333,0733,6854,2853,1723,638All Other

2605955,08670057,87664,51771,56046,42350,779 Totals

1/ Includes 857 cases or 914 defendants initiated by transfer under Rule 20.

2/ Includes 474 cases or 595 defendants terminated by transfer under Rule 20.

3/ Includes 20 verdicts of not guilty by reason of insanity involving 20 defendants.

4/ Includes transfers, dismissals other than by court, pretrial diversions, and proceedings suspended indefinitely by court.

5/ Subcategories were added to Government Regulatory Offenses and Violent Crime in FY 1996 to identify drug cases which were classified as either Government Regulatory Offenses or Violent Crime.

Data on this table does not include Magistrate Cases

Table 3A

Criminal Cases in which a Firearms Offense was Charged Under 18 U.S.C. 922 or 924*

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

Percentage of

Percentage ofDefendantsDefendants

GuiltyGuiltyGuilty of Guilty of Percentage of

Defendants Defendants Firearms

Other

Firearms

Other

DefendantsDefendants----- Defendants ---------- Cases -----

Sentenced Sentenced Non-Firearms Non-Firearms Guilty of Guilty of

to Prisonto PrisonOffenseOffenseFirearms OffenseFirearms OffenseTerminatedFiled TerminatedFiled

88.6%3,89487.0%5,06475.5%4,3965,8247,0594,5164,754FY 1992

91.1%4,49788.0%5,67676.6%4,9396,4506,8964,9214,852FY 1993

92.1%4,12687.3%5,25874.4%4,4816,0236,2754,4854,274FY 1994

92.5%3,87887.1%4,99373.1%4,1935,7346,6674,2614,564FY 1995

91.9%3,60788.4%4,87771.2%3,9255,5165,4894,1203,793FY 1996

90.1%2,93485.8%3,78973.7%3,2574,4185,1503,3813,703FY 1997

90.9%3,28284.6%4,25671.8%3,6125,0325,8763,9214,391FY 1998

93.8%3,73688.8%4,83073.3%3,9855,4397,0574,2695,500FY 1999

*Includes any and all criminal cases where 18 U.S.C. 922 or 924 was brought as any charge in a case. Both statutes were run together to eliminate double

counting of cases/defendants when more than one subsection of Section 922 or 924 was charged in the same case, or both Sections 922 and 924 were charged in the same case.

Table 3B

Criminal Cases and Defendants in United States District Court By Referring Agency

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

- - - - - - - - - - Dispositions - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - Defendants - - - - -- - - - - Cases - - - - -

OtherDismissed 4/ Not Guilty 3/GuiltyTerminated 2/ Filed 1/Terminated 2/ Filed 1/Agency

26810322402382294263Agriculture

0202527361619Commerce

221183511654699572623Department of Defense - Total

726193127124117114 Air Force

6490159214255202237 Army

7202124153122128108 Navy

0201214171417 Marine Corps

2210123146181111147 All Other Defense

0702330292822Education

01045554Energy

6312278317447257367Health and Human Services

01712115144185101134Housing and Urban Development

9516712722996831670640Interior

51730234083683940787457172851031286Department of Justice - Total

941,19912111,24312,65714,8196,5427,586 Drug Enforcement Administration

3691,14423713,35115,10116,55510,17910,832 Federal Bureau of Investigation

305274011,46912,06613,15510,92511,827 Immigration & Naturalization Service

191094464596702549647 Marshals Service

5446312367486315394 All Other Justice

6114254275198244181Labor

38179242,1322,3732,5371,8861,957Postal Service

8313464506454428389State

2828092966661Transportation

1201,07317212,96614,33115,73710,76611,953Department of the Treasury - Total

19326692,8223,2364,1072,5453,444 Alcohol, Tobacco, & Firearms

38441586,4046,9417,3755,2135,519 Customs

24115271,3471,5131,6241,1361,180 Internal Revenue Service

39188172,3492,5932,5661,8361,759 Secret Service

0314448653651 All Other Treasury

21048197919588Veteran's Administration

0172147166172127130Environmental Protection Agency

03010136126General Services Administration

1403237222921Small Business Administration

0101314151313Securities & Exchange Commission

363154228583251390123042622All Other Agencies

8555,08670057,87664,51771,56046,42350,779 All Agencies

1/ Includes 857 cases or 914 defendants initiated by transfer under Rule 20.

2/ Includes 474 cases or 595 defendants terminated by transfer under Rule 20.

3/ Includes 20 verdicts of not guilty by reason of insanity involving 20 defendants.

4/ Includes transfers, dismissals other than by court, pretrial diversions, and proceedings suspended indefinitely by court.

Table 4

Civil Cases Handled By United States Attorneys

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

- - - Disposition - - -- - - - - Dispositions - - - - -- - - - - Civil Cases - - - - -

After JuryAfter CourtJudgmentJudgmentEndBegin

TrialsTrialsOtherDismissedVersus U.S.SettlementsFor U.S.PendingTerminatedFiledPendingDistrict

09121782010476805399614590Alabama, Middle

2122688116220217946867999814Alabama, Northern

1213031954184376408352432Alabama, Southern

0626515927216118163171Alaska

2395181266475667441343765Arizona

0669240204421582,9139291,4642,378Arkansas, Eastern

3015916120135107273582441414Arkansas, Western

255477714292472935,2291,7602,3264,663California, Central

3118023030481921,2276808521,055California, Eastern

4533433525601661,2529209641,208California, Northern

2211522222121174955654709900California, Southern

26172278221421121,1097267771,058Colorado

12821339591592,4858749142,445Connecticut

023232419324373285318340Delaware

1369689816271,4558098921,372District of Columbia

287441,453541,3595603,0314,1703,0474,154Florida, Middle

1017514210422138581581566596Florida, Northern

371,541447302893663,9432,6732,8863,730Florida, Southern

21395711280119692506625573Georgia, Middle

04467527612211852,1511,4611,4642,148Georgia, Northern

241541525564116433991994430Georgia, Southern

004307745213333Guam

1422912929157393508409492Hawaii

022658137235185204180209Idaho

0548102136794345324349320Illinois, Central

220240233341672223,6698961,6962,869Illinois, Northern

015659846116319285322282Illinois, Southern

001961021416599385576510451Indiana, Northern

001751904871681,1206241,002742Indiana, Southern

1367875015453299411359351Iowa, Northern

007884527896284388381291Iowa, Southern

04160292624522377801,2031,140843Kansas

051031294331534931,3781,3111,1701,519Kentucky, Eastern

Table 4 (Continued)

- - - Disposition - - -- - - - - Dispositions - - - - -- - - - - Civil Cases - - - - -

After JuryAfter CourtJudgmentJudgmentEndBegin

TrialsTrialsOtherDismissedVersus U.S.SettlementsFor U.S.PendingTerminatedFiledPendingDistrict

0210030763912238401,0271,076791Kentucky, Western

13891064320192422450445427Louisiana, Eastern

012433102345167135115187Louisiana, Middle

036216872172132497606538565Louisiana, Western

022854812923294242200336Maine

16235152131171611,1846788211,041Maryland

12113118164887698382462618Massachusetts

0320120355754111,0359459071,073Michigan, Eastern

0010113171252533204263474Michigan, Western

1316015642191228517777687607Minnesota

205359108787232296260268Mississippi, Northern

15651246221144455560561454Mississippi, Southern

0415910616100145852526415963Missouri, Eastern

252691597154256664809594879Missouri, Western

026944292066236228218246Montana

04528198245281269281269Nebraska

01242717526452351268535Nevada

006274127646156270261165New Hampshire

16299330211,2102659,8452,1252,7419,229New Jersey

14233155732454615539561593New Mexico

1401,8181,141403162207,5443,5353,6727,407New York, Eastern

03165135104621151,4148878991,402New York, Northern

11419662312711825,1241,5651,8844,805New York, Southern

00976628342781,6246117831,452New York, Western

01442783392235509480534455North Carolina, Eastern

0025148433157341313362292North Carolina, Middle

102184435394318295275338North Carolina, Western

024633127544130210208132North Dakota

0022031138714Northern Mariana Islands

47357777341,0213432,7512,5322,3742,909Ohio, Northern

14309508315111812,7791,5401,5742,745Ohio, Southern

013656905180244313305252Oklahoma, Eastern

036712582161112416547503460Oklahoma, Northern

0425322811238185659915842732Oklahoma, Western

568213322553175527668656539Oregon

Table 4 (Continued)

- - - Disposition - - -- - - - - Dispositions - - - - -- - - - - Civil Cases - - - - -

After JuryAfter CourtJudgmentJudgmentEndBegin

TrialsTrialsOtherDismissedVersus U.S.SettlementsFor U.S.PendingTerminatedFiledPendingDistrict

18998142141002,0223361,0331,325Pennsylvania, Eastern

121271821359180949561634876Pennsylvania, Middle

1118110536207237818766730854Pennsylvania, Western

13225358111932401,2541,0278321,449Puerto Rico

04109320251566779144Rhode Island

24385298484623532,2421,5461,7782,010South Carolina

01374288137212205212205South Dakota

201751415192176882689760811Tennessee, Eastern

01511091815451384383389378Tennessee, Middle

143632055294305788971,090385Tennessee, Western

01198245253672178581,052976934Texas, Eastern

112548252285602511,3721,6391,5311,480Texas, Northern

256754382022865141,7322,1151,8252,022Texas, Southern

210212272225123032,0501,3211,6981,673Texas, Western

013990123831333210199344Utah

044050196142210212203219Vermont

01151821481685784141Virgin Islands

312280303213071959801,1061,179907Virginia, Eastern

021865441113222686616688614Virginia, Western

004856177948173248253168Washington, Eastern

112483041234771531,0031,3051,376932Washington, Western

007084274257226280245261West Virginia, Northern

11203831948332499685477707West Virginia, Southern

0199269637834880786901765Wisconsin, Eastern

21689214222111450507518439Wisconsin, Western

0018345171813392100125Wyoming

8239217,65318,5383,37718,65613,907105,93272,13175,603102,460All Districts

*Note that beginning in Fiscal Year 1998, data on civil debt collection cases is no longer included in the civil caseload data displayed on this table. Thus, comparisons cannot be made of the data on this table with that of Fiscal Year 1997 or prior years.

Other dispositions include transfers, dismissals other than by court, and proceedings suspended for administrative reasons.

Table 5

Civil Matters and Cases by Cause of Action

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

- - - - Dispositions - - - - -

JudgmentJudgment - - - - Cases - - - - - - - - - Matters - - - - -

OtherDismissedVersus U.S.SettlementsFor U.S.TerminatedPendingFiledTerminatedPendingReceivedCause of Action

United States as Plaintiff

870762842337842 Admiralty

150151735326687736680934704 Bankruptcy

82084628110213114219445349 Civil Rights

2603516378113227 Contract Actions

901447222334965114605756141,090 Enforcement

10192817618844820493424370 Environmental

302214213011,0931,9312,8262,0703992,0772,899 Foreclosures

115189164289731,7212,2521,8111,7613,2354,049 Forfeitures

741638991204641,5016703,1684,4042,516 Frauds

213653977178266167146327313 General Claims

2400393918144045 Immigration

38127863918251420272455252 Land/Real Property

5160403798252100345615339 Penalties

61747320935452031143121387 Post Conviction

5771163654197626 Social Security/Medical Appeals

8500141652371642995774333 Student Assistance

39454435018136217255127217 Tax Other than Lien

14212427861121046468162 Torts

192053242118202114276471414 Miscellaneous

9711,1981061,8403,0057,12011,0517,5567,32113,57714,534 Totals

United States as Defendant

222893668135740578 Admiralty

762767958401342,5982,3932,513921252,643 Bankruptcy

40266829394411,5792,7481,605541101,688 Civil Rights

2897210161532361361014147 Contract Actions

240897541332651,5892,2721,5602893641,919 Enforcement

34911214411924692201637243 Environmental

5,1024,6134696,2609516,53931,68016,92949833817,524 Foreclosures

82428155715513542101224 Forfeitures

1132014764120594310598 Frauds

4397836332174242432653274 General Claims

7344113131216612,0741,692511211,777 Immigration

1731502387354687885224290594 Land/Real Property

5701316241981923 Penalties

Table 5 (Continued)

- - - - Dispositions - - - - -

JudgmentJudgment - - - - Cases - - - - - - - - - Matters - - - - -

OtherDismissedVersus U.S.SettlementsFor U.S.TerminatedPendingFiledTerminatedPendingReceivedCause of Action

United States as Defendant (Continued)

2541,561290193,6775,8019,2906,3671613336,606 Post Conviction

4,6171,3871,8411495,00613,00019,15413,2969617813,465 Social Security/Medical Appeals

380221523181421 Student Assistance

17038731821578271,2826193284683 Tax Other than Lien

1,0601,5191132333803,3055,2143,4591913733,730 Torts

212409171351349611,0161,0321432171,253 Miscellaneous

13,21913,1833,1627,97810,56848,11079,49750,4981,7952,67152,990 Totals

All Other Designations

2200041972110 Admiralty

2,8363,540638,24116914,84912,74315,5238071,31316,977 Bankruptcy

9130311366334508794 Civil Rights

39011141295412 Contract Actions

295922155185625106057807451,572 Enforcement

3103310401672431 Environmental

1011342014324005642482024282 Foreclosures

510131098563945 Forfeitures

825282451275998134110 Frauds

2080163477946184876 General Claims

240017191494853 Immigration

133142235628181950 Land/Real Property

110013019106 Penalties

103641298010585131396 Post Conviction

611271734162117 Social Security/Medical Appeals

250231222291434 Student Assistance

32143134669152284794 Tax Other than Lien

68234721662587722645144115816 Torts

473462913129169124402922741 Miscellaneous

3,4634,1571098,83833416,90115,38417,5492,4693,59821,116 Totals

17,65318,5383,37718,65613,90772,131105,93275,60311,58519,84688,640 Grand Totals

Data on this table includes land acquisition and other civil actions in U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and state courts.

Other dispositions includes transfers, dismissals other than by court, and proceedings suspended for administrative reasons.

The data provided where the United States is otherwise designated includes counsel for third parties, amicus, creditor, intervenor, and other appearances by the U.S. Attorney.

The criteria used in this table were changed in FY 1995. Direct comparisons to prior years should not be made.

Table 6

Civil Matters and Cases by Referring Agency

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

- - - - - Dispositions - - - - -

JudgmentJudgment - - - - - Cases - - - - - - - - - - Matters - - - - -

OtherDismissedVersus U.S.SettlementsFor U.S.TerminatedPendingFiledTerminatedPendingReceivedReferring Agency

United States as Plaintiff

268233183599891,8672,3932,1185501,5872,838 Agriculture

001214291161014 Commerce

213554022123314117250459326 Defense

2052024166262209339164172556 Education

0201583615242925 Energy

14193796518038518476325314 Environmental Protection

35311729595061157 Equal Employment

46383243515133323 General Services Administration

3599265462478374222,1102,4091,368 Health and Human Services

3715128651465378899668196 Housing and Urban Development

21811816643069582395171 Interior

187234253978151,6582,5601,7102,1853,9514,260 Justice

2942026611046769117153 Labor

1024035411101279096200204 Postal Service

21320557017835616098334247 Small Business Administration

7003212911346761 State

816161748806080105118 Transportation

1521253238329359328184474596 Treasury, excluding IRS

230311195161621,2381,4131,1414747411,636 Internal Revenue Service

00000000211 General Accounting Office

361752494176217183147528503 Veterans Administration

32601396155356686352572961867 Other

9711,1981061,8403,0057,12011,0517,5567,32113,57714,534 Totals*

United States as Defendant

219417512461121,0451,5021,122821361,234 Agriculture

104812768134887696 Commerce

37751954472391,2361,8611,17553991,240 Defense

25626941223468356238972632931 Education

723041246103492554 Energy

213551111831817362185 Environmental Protection

4140052318141116 Equal Employment

152413952986951074 General Services Administration

6094931841784981,9622,6681,947751772,086 Health and Human Services

19230022319398722,1271,34342501,393 Housing and Urban Development

831501820473187223672277410 Interior

6482,7933283313,8367,93614,9709,96850895610,737 Justice

Table 6 (Continued)

- - - - Dispositions - - - - -

JudgmentJudgment - - - - Cases - - - - - - - - - Matters - - - - -

OtherDismissedVersus U.S.SettlementsFor U.S.TerminatedPendingFiledTerminatedPendingReceivedReferring Agency

United States as Defendant (Continued)

175521218104173991319110 Labor

49762448542371,4602,1701,458531111,532 Postal Service

9518948134204861,5156403454678 Small Business Administration

3270113268347937 State

571108922206441270514279 Transportation

38144510522494392181929236 Treasury, excluding IRS

5,3425,0414756,06342017,34129,21016,41857250117,152 Internal Revenue Service

12000372013 General Accounting Office

2652712253937041,0497463154794 Veterans Administration

4,4631,6351,8492584,84413,04919,41813,50123230913,813 Other

13,21913,1833,1627,97810,56848,11079,49750,4981,7952,67152,990 Totals

All Other Designations

43231011,142551,9401,7872,3421301252,506 Agriculture

430701414140415 Commerce

4133033141211691256047174 Defense

16210213106133963324745065566 Education

3403010125238 Energy

740121244722111838 Environmental Protection

32000534315 Equal Employment

220318173358 General Services Administration

5515972558484665558173166759 Health and Human Services

372425131171511012225124 Housing and Urban Development

913161306528152645 Interior

24112211146836037456831,0631,3362,119 Justice

178082354033171850 Labor

2327285658565213490 Postal Service

16483220214524794253260476 Small Business Administration

120003762321071 State

1320332159245929 Transportation

154043265538201456 Treasury, excluding IRS

2,1053,129646,75011212,1609,81312,2006151,16413,356 Internal Revenue Service

00000000000 General Accounting Office

284414781281161285518189 Veterans Administration

1018055221259723271149250432 Other

3,4634,1571098,83833416,90115,38417,5492,4693,59821,116 Totals

17,65318,5383,37718,65613,90772,131105,93275,60311,58519,84688,640 Grand Totals

Data on this table includes land acquisition and other civil actions in U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and state courts.

Other dispositions includes transfers, dismissals other than by court, and proceedings suspended for administrative reasons.

The data provided where the United States is otherwise designated includes counsel for third parties, amicus, creditor, intervenor, and other appearances by the U.S. Attorney.

Table 7

Appeals Filed and Closed By United States Attorneys

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

- - - - - Civil Closed - - - - -- - - - - Criminal Closed - - - - -

Againstin Favor ofCivilAgainstin Favor ofCriminal

TotalOtherU.S.U.S.FiledTotalOtherU.S.U.S.FiledDistrict

3032253161925037Alabama, Middle

35722654351002551Alabama, Northern

39723084411013091Alabama, Southern

2154122732142741Alaska

717559801461816112173Arizona

3391232946533844Arkansas, Eastern

152013719211618Arkansas, Western

1942818148287372134337468California, Central

6566538479846780California, Eastern

631754113743663189California, Northern

73127099212020192273California, Southern

15744149154741625666Colorado

101181037613048Connecticut

11407824521722Delaware

2573025419819403191138District of Columbia

23214388125026710615146301Florida, Middle

9324267123132148110161Florida, Northern

2540524925757409565566Florida, Southern

3943323469655844Georgia, Middle

11018587113179910160154Georgia, Northern

761735675591024750Georgia, Southern

400421414918Guam

3340293043553344Hawaii

93062234842232Idaho

2461172859325472Illinois, Central

1404511841451422010112177Illinois, Northern

46183256756605060Illinois, Southern

29722023381741756Indiana, Northern

39131252527302436Indiana, Southern

17211415511213857Iowa, Northern

1641112823511744Iowa, Southern

55103425487767489Kansas

60103477251544276Kentucky, Eastern

Table 7 (Continued)

- - - - - Civil Closed - - - - -- - - - - Criminal Closed - - - - -

Againstin Favor ofCivilAgainstin Favor ofCriminal

TotalOtherU.S.U.S.FiledTotalOtherU.S.U.S.FiledDistrict

2410232055644569Kentucky, Western

8145726851504645Louisiana, Eastern

42021024112219Louisiana, Middle

421312829682144350Louisiana, Western

1910181732332631Maine

10327274124951157988Maryland

3151254959684572Massachusetts

20672151191751573713107150Michigan, Eastern

431342650571533961Michigan, Western

7235647080666878Minnesota

2372142920211726Mississippi, Northern

35130223630212736Mississippi, Southern

3653284264815556Missouri, Eastern

96288610767246192Missouri, Western

22721330655184269Montana

18131422601174289Nebraska

178183935832493Nevada

1640122519421326New Hampshire

781869931402012108188New Jersey

4610102644791156394New Mexico

551144013914905144213New York, Eastern

21012025453103248New York, Northern

1281612113459515383New York, Southern

3463252652844044New York, Western

92388184821156675North Carolina, Eastern

1712141684867093North Carolina, Middle

5219429389219469103North Carolina, Western

100281413001311North Dakota

0000000003Northern Mariana Islands

101968611284786994Ohio, Northern

393135697216650102Ohio, Southern

54112413326122318Oklahoma, Eastern

812014476346523946Oklahoma, Northern

7318647068166171Oklahoma, Western

134282284200862655578Oregon

Table 7 (Continued)

- - - - - Civil Closed - - - - -- - - - - Criminal Closed - - - - -

Againstin Favor ofCivilAgainstin Favor ofCriminal

TotalOtherU.S.U.S.FiledTotalOtherU.S.U.S.FiledDistrict

29002940170218141209Pennsylvania, Eastern

6083496769495671Pennsylvania, Middle

62161457336323142Pennsylvania, Western

501423446821616582Puerto Rico

710681120951Rhode Island

8354747816579149129South Carolina

17211444511373154South Dakota

34552436721065684Tennessee, Eastern

2581163044633538Tennessee, Middle

321012139123117105122Tennessee, Western

80627274110939897Texas, Eastern

138234111122191319151184Texas, Northern

15415148162387813366395Texas, Southern

1934518414131626308313Texas, Western

37100273255634674Utah

132110619001912Vermont

7412620621226Virgin Islands

162254133180160232135176Virginia, Eastern

5844505078556881Virginia, Western

100283531332544Washington, Eastern

99107821086601254120Washington, Western

2321201651734142West Virginia, Northern

6593533663325853West Virginia, Southern

441313042751435866Wisconsin, Eastern

57734756688114951Wisconsin, Western

1700171225232024Wyoming

5,8099233284,5586,2938,0738384966,7398,830All Districts

Table 8

Cases Filed in United States District Courts and State Courts

Fiscal Year 1999 Compared with Fiscal Year 1998

- - - - - Total - - - - -- - - - - Civil - - - - -- - - - - Criminal - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

7.50UP68864018.53UP61451839.35DOWN74122Alabama, Middle

16.49UP1,3351,14621.09UP9998254.67UP336321Alabama, Northern

16.88DOWN53764618.14DOWN35243014.36DOWN185216Alabama, Southern

7.25DOWN37140016.42DOWN1631951.46UP208205Alaska

15.93UP3,2022,76224.62DOWN34345523.92UP2,8592,307Arizona

10.07UP1,6711,51815.36UP1,4641,26916.87DOWN207249Arkansas, Eastern

13.75DOWN57166215.03DOWN4415199.10DOWN130143Arkansas, Western

9.71DOWN3,6113,99915.02DOWN2,3262,7371.82UP1,2851,262California, Central

2.72UP1,6191,57611.51UP8527645.55DOWN767812California, Eastern

0.30UP1,6381,63311.40DOWN9641,08823.66UP674545California, Northern

1.60UP4,5024,4310.85UP7097031.74UP3,7933,728California, Southern

5.42DOWN1,1531,2195.36DOWN7778215.53DOWN376398Colorado

20.45DOWN1,1481,44324.90DOWN9141,2173.53UP234226Connecticut

1.98DOWN3984065.64UP31830123.81DOWN80105Delaware

7.73DOWN1,3611,47514.97DOWN8921,04910.09UP469426District of Columbia

6.77DOWN4,2294,5367.50DOWN3,0473,2944.84DOWN1,1821,242Florida, Middle

3.50DOWN8568877.07DOWN5666094.31UP290278Florida, Northern

1.79UP4,4204,3421.14DOWN2,8862,9197.80UP1,5341,423Florida, Southern

15.44DOWN8009467.96DOWN62567934.46DOWN175267Georgia, Middle

18.14UP2,2201,8797.72UP1,4641,35945.38UP756520Georgia, Northern

4.43UP1,1551,1069.23UP99491017.86DOWN161196Georgia, Southern

45.75DOWN17231732.66DOWN334948.14DOWN139268Guam

9.91DOWN67374717.21DOWN4094944.34UP264253Hawaii

20.63DOWN30438325.62DOWN18024212.06DOWN124141Idaho

3.39DOWN6847089.12DOWN3493843.39UP355324Illinois, Central

5.27UP2,2942,1790.41UP1,6961,68922.04UP598490Illinois, Northern

4.76DOWN6416738.79DOWN3223530.32DOWN319320Illinois, Southern

10.71DOWN83493420.81DOWN51064411.72UP324290Indiana, Northern

4.89UP1,1791,1246.70UP1,0029394.33DOWN177185Indiana, Southern

3.24UP57355510.48DOWN35940138.96UP214154Iowa, Northern

6.36UP6686287.08DOWN38141031.65UP287218Iowa, Southern

4.46DOWN1,5031,5739.74DOWN1,1401,26317.09UP363310Kansas

11.55DOWN1,5941,80216.19DOWN1,1701,3964.43UP424406Kentucky, Eastern

Table 8 (Continued)

- - - - - Total - - - - -- - - - - Civil - - - - -- - - - - Criminal - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

8.50UP1,3011,1998.03UP1,07699610.83UP225203Kentucky, Western

1.07UP7527445.32DOWN44547012.04UP307274Louisiana, Eastern

10.12DOWN31134640.73DOWN11519428.94UP196152Louisiana, Middle

14.37DOWN73986320.89DOWN5386809.83UP201183Louisiana, Western

22.09DOWN36747139.21DOWN20032917.60UP167142Maine

6.00UP1,3251,2501.10UP82181215.06UP504438Maryland

6.18UP8758241.29DOWN46246816.01UP413356Massachusetts

7.46DOWN1,5261,64910.11DOWN9071,0093.29DOWN619640Michigan, Eastern

15.44DOWN50459623.55DOWN2633444.37DOWN241252Michigan, Western

19.55DOWN9881,22825.25DOWN6879192.59DOWN301309Minnesota

0.27DOWN3803810.38UP2602591.64DOWN120122Mississippi, Northern

18.14UP84071118.85UP56147216.73UP279239Mississippi, Southern

3.70DOWN9911,02916.84DOWN4154998.67UP576530Missouri, Eastern

17.96DOWN9691,18126.76DOWN5948111.35UP375370Missouri, Western

12.40UP46241112.37UP21819412.44UP244217Montana

12.27DOWN65174223.65DOWN2813681.07DOWN370374Nebraska

14.16UP79869935.35UP2681985.78UP530501Nevada

3.78UP4113962.35UP2612556.38UP150141New Hampshire

14.75UP3,4152,97620.80UP2,7412,2694.67DOWN674707New Jersey

35.91UP1,9491,4349.96DOWN56162371.14UP1,388811New Mexico

11.07DOWN4,7995,39616.15DOWN3,6724,37910.81UP1,1271,017New York, Eastern

4.71DOWN1,5191,59413.15DOWN8991,03510.91UP620559New York, Northern

5.76UP3,3013,1215.07UP1,8841,7936.70UP1,4171,328New York, Southern

8.61DOWN1,0831,18513.77DOWN7839088.30UP300277New York, Western

8.66DOWN8659478.57DOWN5345848.82DOWN331363North Carolina, Eastern

13.44UP69261026.13UP3622872.16UP330323North Carolina, Middle

12.19UP6355661.47UP27527122.03UP360295North Carolina, Western

1.04UP3873835.05UP2081983.25DOWN179185North Dakota

19.14UP564761.12DOWN71868.96UP4929Northern Mariana Islands

6.30UP2,8672,69712.77UP2,3742,10516.73DOWN493592Ohio, Northern

9.74DOWN1,9472,1578.39DOWN1,5741,71815.04DOWN373439Ohio, Southern

9.09UP3843524.45UP30529231.66UP7960Oklahoma, Eastern

10.60DOWN65873611.14DOWN5035668.83DOWN155170Oklahoma, Northern

16.20DOWN1,0871,29720.94DOWN8421,0655.60UP245232Oklahoma, Western

9.75UP1,4741,34311.18UP6565908.63UP818753Oregon

Table 8 (Continued)

- - - - - Total - - - - -- - - - - Civil - - - - -- - - - - Criminal - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

13.88UP1,7391,52713.26UP1,03391214.79UP706615Pennsylvania, Eastern

4.50UP9759330.79DOWN63463915.98UP341294Pennsylvania, Middle

22.97DOWN9831,27628.15DOWN7301,0162.70DOWN253260Pennsylvania, Western

7.73UP1,2261,1389.08DOWN83291576.68UP394223Puerto Rico

13.48DOWN19923030.71DOWN791143.44UP120116Rhode Island

7.50UP2,4512,28012.88UP1,7781,5754.54DOWN673705South Carolina

8.17DOWN61967417.51DOWN2122572.40DOWN407417South Dakota

0.91UP1,1071,0976.75DOWN76081523.04UP347282Tennessee, Eastern

9.70UP5995462.51DOWN38939942.85UP210147Tennessee, Middle

5.04DOWN1,4511,5288.02DOWN1,0901,1855.24UP361343Tennessee, Western

1.47UP1,4461,4257.76DOWN9761,05828.06UP470367Texas, Eastern

13.35DOWN2,4672,84717.34DOWN1,5311,8525.93DOWN936995Texas, Northern

7.09UP5,1614,8192.62DOWN1,8251,87413.27UP3,3362,945Texas, Southern

16.28UP5,5774,79624.21UP1,6981,36713.12UP3,8793,429Texas, Western

2.53DOWN7727924.33DOWN1992081.89DOWN573584Utah

2.50DOWN31332110.58DOWN20322717.02UP11094Vermont

47.44UP57839235.48UP846249.69UP494330Virgin Islands

0.05DOWN2,1252,1262.52UP1,1791,1503.08DOWN946976Virginia, Eastern

10.84UP9718769.03UP68863115.51UP283245Virginia, Western

1.32DOWN60160915.52UP25321910.77DOWN348390Washington, Eastern

10.68DOWN2,0262,2685.95DOWN1,3761,46319.26DOWN650805Washington, Western

4.50UP3943779.26DOWN24527039.25UP149107West Virginia, Northern

17.05DOWN70184523.44DOWN4776230.90UP224222West Virginia, Southern

1.60DOWN1,1091,1272.39DOWN9019231.96UP208204Wisconsin, Eastern

18.14DOWN61475021.16DOWN5186573.22UP9693Wisconsin, Western

3.28DOWN26627515.97DOWN1001196.41UP166156Wyoming

0.26DOWN126,382126,7104.83DOWN75,60379,4337.40UP50,77947,277All Districts

Criminal data includes cases instituted by transfer under Rule 20. Data on this table does not include Magistrate cases.

Table 9

Cases Terminated in United States District Courts and State Courts

Fiscal Year 1999 Compared with Fiscal Year 1998

- - - - - Total - - - - -- - - - - Civil - - - - -- - - - - Criminal - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

20.97DOWN50964421.46DOWN39950819.12DOWN110136Alabama, Middle

1.89UP1,1311,11016.37UP86774527.68DOWN264365Alabama, Northern

15.00DOWN6187276.43DOWN40843627.84DOWN210291Alabama, Southern

25.55DOWN30641145.12DOWN1182154.09DOWN188196Alaska

20.10UP3,0772,56227.11DOWN44160534.69UP2,6361,957Arizona

13.02DOWN1,1361,3069.46DOWN9291,02626.08DOWN207280Arkansas, Eastern

1.70UP7147021.69DOWN58259220.00UP132110Arkansas, Western

22.89UP2,9682,4155.38UP1,7601,67062.14UP1,208745California, Central

8.13DOWN1,3911,5148.45UP68062719.85DOWN711887California, Eastern

12.77DOWN1,2581,4429.81DOWN9201,02019.91DOWN338422California, Northern

18.80UP4,3913,69634.56UP65448616.41UP3,7373,210California, Southern

5.47UP1,1181,0600.28DOWN72672818.07UP392332Colorado

38.83DOWN1,0921,78544.55DOWN8741,5764.30UP218209Connecticut

17.58DOWN36143815.93DOWN28533923.24DOWN7699Delaware

4.81DOWN1,2481,31113.02DOWN80993015.22UP439381District of Columbia

25.93UP5,5514,40820.48UP4,1703,46145.82UP1,381947Florida, Middle

3.23UP8618341.20DOWN58158813.82UP280246Florida, Northern

23.41UP4,1173,33623.69UP2,6732,16122.89UP1,4441,175Florida, Southern

26.94DOWN68994326.78DOWN50669127.39DOWN183252Georgia, Middle

125.94UP2,038902268.01UP1,46139714.25UP577505Georgia, Northern

8.80DOWN1,1301,2393.88DOWN9911,03133.18DOWN139208Georgia, Southern

39.41DOWN18330236.37DOWN213339.78DOWN162269Guam

4.64UP7447118.97DOWN50855854.24UP236153Hawaii

10.52DOWN34939033.34DOWN20430672.61UP14584Idaho

11.75DOWN60168126.37DOWN32444014.93UP277241Illinois, Central

14.33DOWN1,4231,66128.27DOWN8961,24927.91UP527412Illinois, Northern

5.63DOWN57060418.81DOWN28535112.64UP285253Illinois, Southern

3.31DOWN87890811.93DOWN57665418.89UP302254Indiana, Northern

25.48DOWN8161,09530.83DOWN6249020.52DOWN192193Indiana, Southern

1.07UP5655592.38DOWN41142111.59UP154138Iowa, Northern

6.22UP64861011.82DOWN38844052.94UP260170Iowa, Southern

0.39DOWN1,5411,5473.15DOWN1,2031,24210.81UP338305Kansas

6.12UP1,6991,6011.86UP1,3111,28723.56UP388314Kentucky, Eastern

Table 9 (Continued)

- - - - - Total - - - - -- - - - - Civil - - - - -- - - - - Criminal - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

0.08DOWN1,2541,2556.56DOWN1,0271,09945.51UP227156Kentucky, Western

11.67DOWN70479715.89DOWN4505353.06DOWN254262Louisiana, Eastern

0.34DOWN30130226.64DOWN13518440.67UP166118Louisiana, Middle

4.89DOWN7998409.01DOWN60666610.91UP193174Louisiana, Western

20.68DOWN37647428.62DOWN2423390.75DOWN134135Maine

4.45UP1,1481,0992.41UP6786627.55UP470437Maryland

19.15UP73461619.74UP38231918.51UP352297Massachusetts

15.40UP1,4311,24023.20UP9457672.74UP486473Michigan, Eastern

21.12DOWN43755442.38DOWN20435416.50UP233200Michigan, Western

11.23DOWN1,1071,24719.90DOWN77797019.13UP330277Minnesota

2.00UP4073999.62UP29627013.96DOWN111129Mississippi, Northern

19.40UP80667529.62UP5604321.23UP246243Mississippi, Southern

5.71UP1,0911,0327.40DOWN52656821.76UP565464Missouri, Eastern

3.79UP1,1221,0819.62UP8097388.75DOWN313343Missouri, Western

0.45DOWN44344511.21UP22820510.42DOWN215240Montana

14.56DOWN59970141.91DOWN26946338.65UP330238Nebraska

32.34UP67150754.62UP35122714.28UP320280Nevada

0.51DOWN3943961.46DOWN2702741.63UP124122New Hampshire

77.90UP2,7221,53093.71UP2,1251,09737.87UP597433New Jersey

8.47UP1,6521,52321.66DOWN53968833.29UP1,113835New Mexico

0.42DOWN4,5954,6144.13DOWN3,5353,68714.34UP1,060927New York, Eastern

0.90UP1,4461,43310.86DOWN88799527.62UP559438New York, Northern

1.23UP2,7072,6747.18DOWN1,5651,68615.58UP1,142988New York, Southern

16.82DOWN82198711.33DOWN61168929.54DOWN210298New York, Western

17.58DOWN80297327.50DOWN4806623.53UP322311North Carolina, Eastern

9.39UP68762812.08DOWN31335637.50UP374272North Carolina, Middle

5.18DOWN58661812.21DOWN2953363.19UP291282North Carolina, Western

5.27DOWN3964187.90DOWN2102282.11DOWN186190North Dakota

25.71UP443527.28DOWN81150.00UP3624Northern Mariana Islands

2.06DOWN3,0483,1121.48UP2,5322,49516.37DOWN516617Ohio, Northern

8.68DOWN1,9792,16713.78DOWN1,5401,78615.22UP439381Ohio, Southern

3.44DOWN39340713.78DOWN31336381.81UP8044Oklahoma, Eastern

24.03DOWN68089523.93DOWN54771924.44DOWN133176Oklahoma, Northern

10.76DOWN1,1451,28317.27DOWN9151,10629.94UP230177Oklahoma, Western

9.23UP1,4201,3001.51UP66865817.13UP752642Oregon

Table 9 (Continued)

- - - - - Total - - - - -- - - - - Civil - - - - -- - - - - Criminal - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

48.17DOWN9031,74270.56DOWN3361,1415.66DOWN567601Pennsylvania, Eastern

11.95UP8807864.46UP56153728.11UP319249Pennsylvania, Middle

13.98DOWN1,0161,18119.12DOWN7669476.83UP250234Pennsylvania, Western

9.28UP1,3061,1955.33UP1,02797526.81UP279220Puerto Rico

9.89UP2001829.46DOWN677423.14UP133108Rhode Island

22.10UP2,2321,82822.31UP1,5461,26421.63UP686564South Carolina

3.01DOWN61463312.77DOWN2052352.76UP409398South Dakota

3.80DOWN1,0131,05311.90DOWN68978219.55UP324271Tennessee, Eastern

5.17UP5495226.59DOWN38341048.21UP166112Tennessee, Middle

29.33DOWN1,2221,72935.33DOWN8971,3874.98DOWN325342Tennessee, Western

6.14DOWN1,4691,56511.08DOWN1,0521,1839.16UP417382Texas, Eastern

23.05DOWN2,4883,23331.86DOWN1,6392,4052.53UP849828Texas, Northern

15.99UP5,0984,3954.80UP2,1152,01825.49UP2,9832,377Texas, Southern

8.42UP4,8524,47510.51DOWN1,3211,47617.73UP3,5312,999Texas, Western

16.00UP70360611.11UP21018918.22UP493417Utah

3.11DOWN3123228.63DOWN21223211.11UP10090Vermont

34.96UP52538939.02UP574134.48UP468348Virgin Islands

3.68UP2,0241,9528.30DOWN1,1061,20623.05UP918746Virginia, Eastern

16.77DOWN81998413.97DOWN61671624.26DOWN203268Virginia, Western

4.70DOWN5896187.81DOWN2482692.30DOWN341349Washington, Eastern

9.71DOWN1,9072,1124.54DOWN1,3051,36719.20DOWN602745Washington, Western

27.07UP39931442.85UP2801960.84UP119118West Virginia, Northern

33.23UP88666550.88UP6854544.74DOWN201211West Virginia, Southern

16.11DOWN1,0001,19221.01DOWN7869958.62UP214197Wisconsin, Eastern

13.16UP6195477.64UP50747147.36UP11276Wisconsin, Western

15.48UP2612260.00929226.11UP169134Wyoming

2.06UP118,554116,1574.35DOWN72,13175,41113.93UP46,42340,746All Districts

Criminal data includes cases terminated by transfer under Rule 20 and cases dismissed because of superseding indictments or informations. Data on this table does not include Magistrate cases.

Table 10

Cases Pending in United States District Courts and State Courts

Fiscal Year 1999 Compared with Fiscal Year 1998

- - - - - Total - - - - -- - - - - Civil - - - - -- - - - - Criminal - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

25.03UP89471536.44UP80559028.80DOWN89125Alabama, Middle

20.29UP1,2091,00516.21UP94681437.69UP263191Alabama, Northern

12.90DOWN54762812.97DOWN37643212.76DOWN171196Alabama, Southern

23.29UP34427926.31UP21617118.51UP128108Alaska

5.06UP2,5922,46712.82DOWN66776513.10UP1,9251,702Arizona

20.78UP3,1092,57422.49UP2,9132,3780.00196196Arkansas, Eastern

28.21DOWN36450734.06DOWN2734142.16DOWN9193Arkansas, Western

9.49UP7,4186,77512.13UP5,2294,6633.64UP2,1892,112California, Central

13.02UP1,9781,75016.30UP1,2271,0558.05UP751695California, Eastern

18.58UP2,4252,0453.64UP1,2521,20840.14UP1,173837California, Northern

3.55UP3,2303,1196.11UP9559002.52UP2,2752,219California, Southern

2.26UP1,5801,5454.82UP1,1091,0583.29DOWN471487Colorado

2.04UP2,7892,7331.63UP2,4852,4455.55UP304288Connecticut

9.00UP4484119.70UP3733405.63UP7571Delaware

5.85UP2,0431,9306.04UP1,4551,3725.37UP588558District of Columbia

23.57DOWN4,2885,61027.04DOWN3,0314,15413.67DOWN1,2571,456Florida, Middle

0.54DOWN9239282.52DOWN5815963.01UP342332Florida, Northern

4.33UP7,2906,9875.71UP3,9433,7302.76UP3,3473,257Florida, Southern

13.23UP95083920.76UP6925733.01DOWN258266Georgia, Middle

6.84UP2,8402,6580.13UP2,1512,14835.09UP689510Georgia, Northern

4.70UP5565310.69UP43343021.78UP123101Georgia, Southern

5.50DOWN18920036.36UP453313.78DOWN144167Guam

6.70DOWN9891,06020.13DOWN3934924.92UP596568Hawaii

13.89DOWN27932411.49DOWN18520918.27DOWN94115Idaho

14.56UP6535707.81UP34532023.20UP308250Illinois, Central

23.42UP4,5893,71827.88UP3,6692,8698.36UP920849Illinois, Northern

14.69UP55448313.12UP31928216.91UP235201Illinois, Southern

6.36DOWN64869214.64DOWN3854519.12UP263241Indiana, Northern

41.53UP1,23787450.94UP1,12074211.37DOWN117132Indiana, Southern

1.58UP51450614.82DOWN29935138.70UP215155Iowa, Northern

4.29UP4864662.41DOWN28429115.42UP202175Iowa, Southern

3.36DOWN1,0931,1317.48DOWN7808438.68UP313288Kansas

5.73DOWN1,7291,8349.29DOWN1,3781,51911.42UP351315Kentucky, Eastern

Table 10 (Continued)

- - - - - Total - - - - -- - - - - Civil - - - - -- - - - - Criminal - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

4.86UP1,0149676.19UP8407911.14DOWN174176Kentucky, Western

6.70UP7647161.18DOWN42242718.33UP342289Louisiana, Eastern

3.48UP29728710.70DOWN16718730.00UP130100Louisiana, Middle

8.19DOWN67373312.04DOWN4975654.76UP176168Louisiana, Western

2.11DOWN41842712.50DOWN29433636.26UP12491Maine

11.91UP1,6631,48613.73UP1,1841,0417.64UP479445Maryland

12.64UP1,2561,11512.94UP69861812.27UP558497Massachusetts

5.13UP1,9441,8493.55DOWN1,0351,07317.13UP909776Michigan, Eastern

9.83UP74868112.44UP5334743.86UP215207Michigan, Western

13.01DOWN79691514.83DOWN5176079.42DOWN279308Minnesota

8.09DOWN30733413.44DOWN23226813.63UP7566Mississippi, Northern

5.32UP6736390.22UP45545417.83UP218185Mississippi, Southern

7.66DOWN1,2061,30611.53DOWN8529633.20UP354343Missouri, Eastern

13.24DOWN1,0031,15624.46DOWN66487922.38UP339277Missouri, Western

4.35UP4554364.07DOWN23624615.26UP219190Montana

7.54UP7416894.46UP2812699.52UP460420Nebraska

10.56UP1,3291,20215.52DOWN45253531.48UP877667Nevada

5.64UP3183015.46DOWN15616519.11UP162136New Hampshire

6.95UP10,6549,9616.67UP9,8459,22910.51UP809732New Jersey

20.91UP1,7171,4203.70UP61559333.25UP1,102827New Mexico

2.19UP9,5029,2981.84UP7,5447,4073.54UP1,9581,891New York, Eastern

3.89UP1,9461,8730.85UP1,4141,40212.95UP532471New York, Northern

7.31UP8,7138,1196.63UP5,1244,8058.29UP3,5893,314New York, Southern

14.74UP2,0391,77711.84UP1,6241,45227.69UP415325New York, Western

8.78UP78071711.86UP5094553.43UP271262North Carolina, Eastern

0.93UP54053516.78UP34129218.11DOWN199243North Carolina, Middle

6.50UP8027535.92DOWN31833816.62UP484415North Carolina, Western

4.00DOWN2162251.52DOWN1301327.53DOWN8693North Dakota

33.33UP48367.15DOWN131459.09UP3522Northern Mariana Islands

5.57DOWN3,0693,2505.44DOWN2,7512,9096.75DOWN318341Ohio, Northern

1.03DOWN3,0883,1201.23UP2,7792,74517.60DOWN309375Ohio, Southern

2.96DOWN2963053.18DOWN2442521.89DOWN5253Oklahoma, Eastern

3.59DOWN5926149.57DOWN41646014.28UP176154Oklahoma, Northern

6.51DOWN8338919.98DOWN6597329.43UP174159Oklahoma, Western

4.46UP1,2641,2102.23DOWN5275399.83UP737671Oregon

Table 10 (Continued)

- - - - - Total - - - - -- - - - - Civil - - - - -- - - - - Criminal - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

38.20UP3,0242,18852.60UP2,0221,32516.10UP1,002863Pennsylvania, Eastern

8.18UP1,2551,1608.33UP9498767.74UP306284Pennsylvania, Middle

3.00DOWN1,0701,1034.22DOWN8188541.20UP252249Pennsylvania, Western

4.55DOWN1,6811,76113.46DOWN1,2541,44936.85UP427312Puerto Rico

0.39DOWN2572588.33UP15614411.41DOWN101114Rhode Island

8.06UP2,9352,71611.54UP2,2422,0101.85DOWN693706South Carolina

1.15UP4394343.41UP2122050.88DOWN227229South Dakota

8.81UP1,1601,0668.75UP8828119.01UP278255Tennessee, Eastern

9.14UP5975471.58UP38437826.03UP213169Tennessee, Middle

33.18UP91969050.12UP57838511.80UP341305Tennessee, Western

1.85DOWN1,2221,2458.14DOWN85893417.04UP364311Texas, Eastern

0.93DOWN2,2412,2627.30DOWN1,3721,48011.12UP869782Texas, Northern

1.39UP4,5774,51414.35DOWN1,7322,02214.16UP2,8452,492Texas, Southern

16.90UP5,0144,28922.53UP2,0501,67313.30UP2,9642,616Texas, Western

8.80UP8537843.20DOWN33334418.18UP520440Utah

0.27UP3673664.11DOWN2102196.80UP157147Vermont

18.33UP34228919.14UP16814117.56UP174148Virgin Islands

6.08UP1,7601,6598.04UP9809073.72UP780752Virginia, Eastern

17.79UP1,00685411.72UP68661433.33UP320240Virginia, Western

2.90UP4254132.97UP1731682.85UP252245Washington, Eastern

8.53UP1,5141,3957.61UP1,00393210.36UP511463Washington, Western

1.36DOWN36336813.41DOWN22626128.03UP137107West Virginia, Northern

22.00DOWN65684129.43DOWN49970717.16UP157134West Virginia, Southern

11.49UP1,05794815.03UP8807653.28DOWN177183Wisconsin, Eastern

0.96DOWN5195242.50UP45043918.83DOWN6985Wisconsin, Western

2.01UP2532486.40UP1331252.44DOWN120123Wyoming

5.21UP157,987150,1593.38UP105,932102,4609.13UP52,05547,699All Districts

Criminal data does not include Magistrate cases.

Civil data includes land acquisition cases.

Table 11

Grand Jury Proceedings and Criminal and Civil Matters Received

Fiscal Year 1999 Compared with Fiscal Year 1998

- - - - - Civil Matters Received - - - - -- - - - - Criminal Matters Received - - - - -- - - - - Grand Jury Proceedings - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

30.59UP73055925.63UP34827744.12DOWN57102Alabama, Middle

19.75UP1,0799015.64DOWN6536923.62UP257248Alabama, Northern

13.62DOWN40647023.60DOWN35346217.52DOWN146177Alabama, Southern

4.17DOWN25326413.73UP43938612.50DOWN8496Alaska

9.20DOWN77084812.30DOWN4,2004,7894.76DOWN1,0211,072Arizona

21.50UP1,5371,26523.92UP75160636.50DOWN134211Arkansas, Eastern

15.26UP6575703.88DOWN27328418.40DOWN102125Arkansas, Western

15.00DOWN2,7563,2422.56UP3,0752,99810.39DOWN880982California, Central

13.80UP1,03991313.61DOWN1,3461,55815.48UP619536California, Eastern

31.67DOWN1,2971,89826.20UP1,7481,385112.03UP458216California, Northern

2.28DOWN8158343.68UP4,5634,4012.79DOWN1,3941,434California, Southern

6.59DOWN8939562.64DOWN8128344.68DOWN265278Colorado

15.21DOWN1,1381,34220.67UP50241614.06UP146128Connecticut

12.42UP38033820.80DOWN19825027.03DOWN5474Delaware

9.90DOWN1,1661,2945.00DOWN1,0851,14217.46UP222189District of Columbia

2.18DOWN3,8663,9521.99DOWN2,5122,56311.78DOWN794900Florida, Middle

6.25UP74870435.37UP7735710.83UP241239Florida, Northern

0.38UP3,3583,3455.06UP2,9052,7654.83UP1,3011,241Florida, Southern

15.35DOWN64075618.98UP63353231.14DOWN115167Georgia, Middle

11.67UP1,5881,42220.08UP1,4411,20040.44UP441314Georgia, Northern

6.94UP1,04797932.32UP56943019.88DOWN125156Georgia, Southern

18.08DOWN688347.35DOWN19837616.33DOWN8298Guam

19.27DOWN46157113.83UP69160712.42UP181161Hawaii

26.14DOWN24332973.62UP8825082.78DOWN7072Idaho

5.62DOWN3703927.74DOWN4895306.10DOWN231246Illinois, Central

4.60UP2,0011,91313.86DOWN1,4051,63139.58UP335240Illinois, Northern

5.93UP4464216.21DOWN65069317.55UP221188Illinois, Southern

17.71DOWN5676891.14DOWN6116187.58UP227211Indiana, Northern

9.65UP1,09099437.19UP6164498.33UP10496Indiana, Southern

12.64DOWN41547510.09DOWN31234748.31UP13289Iowa, Northern

7.34DOWN41745011.81UP36933038.32UP231167Iowa, Southern

29.48DOWN1,2661,7952.61UP78576511.15UP269242Kansas

14.24DOWN1,3311,55289.21UP1,5618255.08UP310295Kentucky, Eastern

Table 11 (Continued)

- - - - - Civil Matters Received - - - - -- - - - - Criminal Matters Received - - - - -- - - - - Grand Jury Proceedings - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

3.38UP1,1291,0925.64UP5805495.33UP158150Kentucky, Western

6.48DOWN52055631.91UP90168326.38UP206163Louisiana, Eastern

16.53DOWN19723614.67DOWN29134144.11UP147102Louisiana, Middle

20.65DOWN6197801.10UP1,1881,1750.89UP113112Louisiana, Western

41.10DOWN2253829.02DOWN43447719.27UP9983Maine

6.53UP1,1081,04030.76UP1,8831,44018.70UP349294Maryland

5.45UP6195870.28UP6956930.48DOWN210211Massachusetts

4.31DOWN1,2011,25514.46DOWN1,9242,24919.07UP387325Michigan, Eastern

12.16DOWN5426172.22DOWN57458714.69DOWN151177Michigan, Western

24.05DOWN8181,07730.06DOWN4987127.08DOWN197212Minnesota

0.56UP35535314.59DOWN3283843.49DOWN8386Mississippi, Northern

8.49UP6135650.87UP69268616.95UP200171Mississippi, Southern

18.17DOWN4735783.35UP1,1401,1035.64UP393372Missouri, Eastern

14.94DOWN7699048.16DOWN74380912.33UP255227Missouri, Western

8.13UP2662468.59DOWN45850115.66UP192166Montana

25.11DOWN3674902.36DOWN6626781.55UP326321Nebraska

0.96UP3143113.84UP1,1621,1196.01UP423399Nevada

0.37DOWN27327419.60UP2992501.81UP112110New Hampshire

21.00UP2,9492,43711.47DOWN2,3932,70318.26DOWN291356New Jersey

7.07DOWN61866534.12UP2,2521,6797.82UP427396New Mexico

15.63DOWN3,8604,5751.58UP1,9241,8944.94DOWN713750New York, Eastern

10.51DOWN9971,11412.68UP1,09397012.37DOWN163186New York, Northern

5.75UP2,1702,0527.30DOWN2,2232,3985.67UP652617New York, Southern

11.41DOWN9241,0430.35DOWN85786018.25UP149126New York, Western

17.20DOWN62175023.83UP79564210.26DOWN210234North Carolina, Eastern

22.18UP3913201.36DOWN5835912.49DOWN275282North Carolina, Middle

23.97UP39331714.02UP74865622.36UP290237North Carolina, Western

19.65UP2802347.20DOWN3874172.94UP105102North Dakota

45.84DOWN132417.65DOWN708518.18UP2622Northern Mariana Islands

16.04UP2,6322,26813.00UP1,5471,3697.26DOWN345372Ohio, Northern

3.69DOWN1,7231,78910.65DOWN1,0741,2021.79DOWN165168Ohio, Southern

2.18UP32832122.38UP25721042.85UP6042Oklahoma, Eastern

13.28DOWN5426252.62DOWN41042113.34DOWN104120Oklahoma, Northern

20.98DOWN9081,14924.18DOWN66888122.40DOWN97125Oklahoma, Western

7.49UP8467870.09DOWN1,2341,23512.39UP644573Oregon

Table 11 (Continued)

- - - - - Civil Matters Received - - - - -- - - - - Criminal Matters Received - - - - -- - - - - Grand Jury Proceedings - - - - -

PercentPercentPercent

ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998ChangeFY 1999FY 1998District

24.11UP1,3281,0701.27DOWN1,4081,42617.12UP465397Pennsylvania, Eastern

14.71DOWN8991,0548.33UP75469619.88UP217181Pennsylvania, Middle

17.20DOWN9921,19821.56UP7165896.46DOWN174186Pennsylvania, Western

12.98DOWN9661,11017.36UP81869772.06UP308179Puerto Rico

19.51DOWN19424112.65DOWN22826110.53DOWN8595Rhode Island

8.56UP1,9901,8332.77UP1,3321,2968.47DOWN562614South Carolina

25.00DOWN2733643.08UP1,2371,20016.41UP312268South Dakota

7.72DOWN8028698.65UP81675121.13UP235194Tennessee, Eastern

27.17DOWN60683236.47DOWN33853225.47UP133106Tennessee, Middle

7.55DOWN1,1881,2852.43UP63261716.93UP290248Tennessee, Western

5.72DOWN1,0391,10218.48UP1,00084423.82UP343277Texas, Eastern

15.38DOWN1,7832,10711.14DOWN1,6521,8591.83UP666654Texas, Northern

5.50DOWN2,0292,14710.88UP4,4023,97013.55UP2,6892,368Texas, Southern

21.77UP2,0131,65343.57UP7,4465,18615.36UP3,4693,007Texas, Western

3.06DOWN2862952.87UP1,2171,1831.77UP516507Utah

5.58DOWN2542695.74UP1841741.51UP6766Vermont

2.28DOWN868816.55UP53545951.72UP8858Virgin Islands

0.20UP1,4381,43517.02UP4,9024,18910.08DOWN678754Virginia, Eastern

9.20UP71265231.06UP77258923.88UP223180Virginia, Western

0.33DOWN30730849.80UP1,17378315.11DOWN281331Washington, Eastern

7.28DOWN1,5171,63664.40UP2,2311,3574.77DOWN180189Washington, Western

5.69DOWN28229918.54UP35830252.38UP9663West Virginia, Northern

21.38DOWN53768318.98DOWN58572213.76UP124109West Virginia, Southern

4.67DOWN9821,0308.56UP62157210.00DOWN144160Wisconsin, Eastern

15.92DOWN57668517.27UP3192724.76UP6663Wisconsin, Western

17.81DOWN1201466.17UP3613403.97DOWN97101Wyoming

4.41DOWN88,64092,7207.03UP106,75299,7355.66UP32,47430,734All Districts

Criminal data does not include Magistrate cases.

Civil data includes land acquisition cases.

Table 12A

United States Attorney Debt Collection for Fiscal Year 1999

Criminal Debts Owed the United States

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

405$5,289,539318$89,157$0$193,608382$509,785Alabama, Middle

1,444$19,000,350397$211,747$0$572,306639$2,587,249Alabama, Northern

478$9,785,576442$10,641,637$0$272,875363$500,293Alabama, Southern

404$14,303,511251$44,591$0$3,447,851317$11,404,492Alaska

2,892$49,702,4771,478$393,887$0$1,471,0621,747$2,892,998Arizona

464$5,807,383414$122,352$0$263,171324$436,099Arkansas, Eastern

504$1,584,595190$69,672$0$158,481232$261,233Arkansas, Western

5,107$290,388,5342,034$5,304,172$651,929$29,116,8142,405$47,878,749California, Central

1,560$22,120,122570$308,216$0$2,406,222590$7,363,718California, Eastern

2,630$144,525,202948$6,371,286$0$80,441,7601,285$122,656,004California, Northern

2,159$34,300,9601,572$2,418,715$141,190$2,430,4602,123$5,226,123California, Southern

751$43,590,371665$1,951,706$0$25,713,774664$3,259,320Colorado

738$33,757,463297$816,174$0$2,528,106389$6,912,404Connecticut

160$809,822137$161,023$0$133,400121$96,001Delaware

1,791$283,690,121535$267,078$0$963,420720$7,391,386District of Columbia

3,292$114,649,0991,423$102,005$0$14,444,5591,876$34,670,713Florida, Middle

1,152$83,495,633357$751,944$0$805,251383$749,733Florida, Northern

7,347$345,616,6081,267$3,520,202$1,134$8,521,2432,454$45,927,586Florida, Southern

633$4,375,201521$278,998$0$316,170509$311,939Georgia, Middle

3,073$49,794,708953$3,664,149$0$6,090,7291,031$7,514,447Georgia, Northern

896$18,014,946458$10,267,677$1,230$10,537,215444$9,386,432Georgia, Southern

407$1,590,774167$162,554$0$251,102305$444,153Guam*

562$11,253,096403$52,587$0$319,383375$461,907Hawaii

449$4,300,591175$70,505$0$340,129245$3,337,336Idaho

556$7,182,256306$63,663$0$818,135382$1,451,875Illinois, Central

2,739$144,367,899744$2,344,391$108,575$6,423,0051,057$26,506,732Illinois, Northern

1,441$11,330,150479$183,379$0$4,462,531722$5,080,258Illinois, Southern

778$9,661,177322$1,067,689$0$499,938494$1,293,398Indiana, Northern

838$5,757,783287$6,060$0$565,219370$668,466Indiana, Southern

339$5,265,233218$634,833$0$518,919231$275,679Iowa, Northern

368$2,784,230299$1,721$0$554,615435$703,979Iowa, Southern

774$18,602,179384$253,307$0$971,854474$2,527,503Kansas

551$4,661,122452$117,363$0$489,792524$474,692Kentucky, Eastern

Table 12A (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

799$11,600,214803$719,165$2,432$740,2981,051$456,102Kentucky, Western

1,399$30,830,882523$334,911$0$3,075,241661$3,877,002Louisiana, Eastern

285$9,206,617162$851,976$0$274,715280$1,264,297Louisiana, Middle

674$36,871,7211,335$173,585$0$994,1381,440$4,431,820Louisiana, Western

307$1,663,462163$486,312$0$177,337184$281,212Maine

1,654$23,051,993504$106,790$0$2,487,038761$3,630,615Maryland

1,878$150,069,018341$231,466$0$71,368,716570$74,741,416Massachusetts

2,115$86,092,158907$15,531,617$0$3,039,504982$38,374,881Michigan, Eastern

1,073$11,418,542370$16,701$18,500$539,803593$1,606,054Michigan, Western

686$5,493,866394$884,845$0$1,079,631542$1,020,864Minnesota

423$4,586,111282$686,382$0$265,371213$1,585,622Mississippi, Northern

982$5,187,205413$122,439$0$325,794465$2,836Mississippi, Southern

1,047$3,962,267725$1,043,893$0$8,228,223912$8,820,161Missouri, Eastern

1,227$14,790,916502$244,309$0$534,189551$4,121,932Missouri, Western

406$5,760,075287$14,587$3,580$371,340324$671,641Montana

450$1,266,461408$291,810$13,290$215,979438$174,783Nebraska

1,464$11,301,906545$1,511,195$0$1,306,204617$2,226,451Nevada

267$12,172,251137$67,630$0$322,466171$311,261New Hampshire

3,283$56,125,3451,056$3,666,497$4,714$3,402,5931,523$5,260,599New Jersey

1,801$8,144,079537$92,576$0$2,035,0951,098$2,546,160New Mexico

4,233$193,599,7391,465$21,101,012$0$9,874,1341,913$21,730,130New York, Eastern

561$6,399,605773$281,729$3,840$6,186,154803$6,482,185New York, Northern

3,852$329,201,3291,845$3,845,618$1,805$68,538,1922,252$84,423,414New York, Southern

769$4,302,996515$137,831$0$1,589,561556$2,309,180New York, Western

1,899$23,830,8382,196$1,859,431$0$1,286,8541,376$3,280,451North Carolina, Eastern**

766$5,108,002436$262,322$0$378,668452$371,924North Carolina, Middle

1,798$11,899,143890$14,538$0$900,3821,134$4,412,222North Carolina, Western

277$4,937,396228$15,664$0$880,573221$1,862,535North Dakota

0$00$0$0$00$0Northern Mariana Islands*

1,478$46,693,667855$405,390$0$2,569,075846$8,867,729Ohio, Northern

1,534$19,470,440716$2,256,635$0$689,0131,003$2,995,521Ohio, Southern

121$1,002,81387$47,745$0$112,627123$219,369Oklahoma, Eastern

552$16,491,595310$10,429,286$0$415,416324$2,046,102Oklahoma, Northern

457$14,130,637274$324,403$0$533,447283$1,358,936Oklahoma, Western

1,843$2,911,953574$549,538$0$650,404889$768,410Oregon

Table 12A (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

3,631$322,253,7281,117$702,428$0$57,421,5801,272$219,019,115Pennsylvania, Eastern

751$4,977,133455$67,355$0$950,270524$1,222,534Pennsylvania, Middle

766$16,461,088323$2,642,682$0$1,137,589352$1,458,205Pennsylvania, Western

1,042$112,435,702458$151,240$0$8,533,137519$10,113,687Puerto Rico

659$63,443,097161$261,138$0$406,961192$509,549Rhode Island

1,317$15,034,815888$27,148$0$8,274,008956$8,274,660South Carolina

554$4,287,334458$413,318$0$383,037525$528,311South Dakota

815$8,329,700506$161,775$0$887,340555$1,216,129Tennessee, Eastern

369$6,582,701188$1,178,561$0$152,697229$162,296Tennessee, Middle

1,191$12,312,616371$30,622$0$1,293,670327$670,391Tennessee, Western

1,317$26,614,583620$7,302,297$0$1,284,990750$12,048,075Texas, Eastern

2,987$241,725,8971,150$1,615,499$0$514,477,4411,838$505,369,316Texas, Northern

9,715$359,217,6081,375$296,866$0$2,552,3993,606$41,702,864Texas, Southern

10,979$174,960,7952,981$6,447,083$0$7,278,2804,559$18,021,937Texas, Western

1,502$3,110,437380$567,541$0$1,612,622753$1,707,423Utah

136$3,361,634170$820,770$0$134,749195$1,449,570Vermont

293$7,241,487174$10,940$0$49,351140$103,085Virgin Islands

3,827$41,193,9992,187$1,201,601$101,371$2,169,9322,978$18,293,780Virginia, Eastern

1,458$17,459,519700$432,261$0$2,389,269789$3,695,809Virginia, Western

483$3,250,718329$45,274$0$289,467400$445,666Washington, Eastern

1,597$46,173,268432$242,680$29,638$1,913,314548$2,659,141Washington, Western

397$26,053,200197$31,815$0$115,760200$21,839,262West Virginia, Northern

755$6,847,892288$3,382,637$0$266,077318$1,090,627West Virginia, Southern

958$9,660,929378$32,692$0$589,685467$731,241Wisconsin, Eastern

209$3,037,202161$80,369$0$227,757166$660,997Wisconsin, Western

466$1,360,335190$121,843$0$80,701336$161,185Wyoming

138,216$4,508,321,36957,658$149,592,703$1,083,228$1,017,303,35473,657$1,530,851,355All Districts

Data on this table excludes Asset Forfeitures.

Dollar amount of debts opened does not include adjustments.

Collected amount includes payments received by the United States Attorneys, the Courts, and other agencies.

Other decreases includes transfers, remands, presidential pardon, death of debtor, etc.

*Data for the Districts of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands are combined.

**Data provided by the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Table 12B

United States Attorney Debt Collection for Fiscal Year 1999

Criminal Debts Owed to Third Parties

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

193$5,529,02122$138,403$0$177,71128$332,429Alabama, Middle

504$22,573,48228$691,624$0$350,53993$5,966,838Alabama, Northern

242$16,402,15962$964,384$0$266,98068$3,060,033Alabama, Southern

185$6,511,33523$27,439$0$296,04250$1,266,104Alaska

936$93,574,789104$340,026$667$828,698167$5,254,944Arizona

158$4,538,62919$77,317$0$147,86766$2,946,514Arkansas, Eastern

92$3,256,52213$236,389$0$256,08936$2,175,481Arkansas, Western

2,148$1,410,629,264158$33,819,962$0$22,645,703431$239,559,497California, Central

404$52,152,92755$3,684,939$0$503,63987$4,672,975California, Eastern

1,196$278,374,45945$825,950$0$1,342,682173$34,494,870California, Northern

360$73,238,49857$391,168$7,117$842,311127$48,431,458California, Southern

295$29,684,97354$185,400$0$357,009112$13,797,897Colorado

144$44,454,4539$109,164$0$484,64844$9,246,804Connecticut

114$10,821,12516$52,343$0$302,86522$623,014Delaware

646$77,466,48727$274,868$0$441,451141$17,930,207District of Columbia

1,042$385,981,57352$263,946$505$2,143,805266$224,279,872Florida, Middle

164$19,002,86315$1,876,470$0$216,78442$6,055,584Florida, Northern

1,330$571,935,06454$81,211$0$3,695,939265$48,159,094Florida, Southern

189$7,591,77124$149,650$0$356,50053$3,937,959Georgia, Middle

423$88,369,48331$4,971,556$0$1,241,350186$68,237,698Georgia, Northern

148$9,593,05218$1,608,597$1,663$166,49760$2,332,737Georgia, Southern

60$1,978,3183$65,401$0$14,73024$851,087Guam*

298$11,990,97044$521,398$2,922$201,35054$2,297,406Hawaii

103$1,602,41612$513,673$0$111,01334$634,381Idaho

309$48,330,55369$1,620,353$0$1,044,60577$8,575,833Illinois, Central

933$235,894,41565$3,249,654$0$11,579,370257$46,957,367Illinois, Northern

100$19,641,49234$1,751,171$0$1,772,04744$15,141,744Illinois, Southern

263$22,009,17030$155,709$0$279,76872$8,826,564Indiana, Northern

217$14,299,54716$18,234$0$225,90856$6,119,905Indiana, Southern

214$12,714,92027$116,669$0$615,83542$3,964,855Iowa, Northern

99$7,013,12212$11,166$0$408,63661$1,956,772Iowa, Southern

283$67,138,93644$3,382,040$0$1,067,75787$41,726,267Kansas

331$32,962,61453$1,192,151$2,575$655,55394$5,606,354Kentucky, Eastern

Table 12B (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

279$26,872,64938$1,274,852$0$407,79695$6,108,826Kentucky, Western

286$30,359,24826$5,629,583-$56,100$864,886160$21,156,838Louisiana, Eastern

129$23,284,60033$191,891$0$226,78761$937,648Louisiana, Middle

126$20,313,13524$403,969$0$476,35061$10,735,007Louisiana, Western

97$15,989,98130$1,102,890$0$310,84936$10,792,941Maine

270$44,396,5118$34,200$0$1,135,103113$18,824,015Maryland

459$175,750,46010$150,061$0$1,064,24183$47,665,688Massachusetts

862$129,356,125132$16,169,542$105$2,280,298170$14,174,973Michigan, Eastern

368$21,692,99141$207,200$0$512,476101$4,086,379Michigan, Western

283$56,001,55918$68,902$0$1,089,318113$32,182,481Minnesota

153$9,274,73757$486,947$0$323,57038$573,357Mississippi, Northern

180$9,518,43913$51,589$0$146,92672$3,692,309Mississippi, Southern

332$24,771,16452$474,074$0$6,739,064120$17,070,433Missouri, Eastern

304$72,706,35123$978,872$0$371,65989$11,827,241Missouri, Western

297$10,476,15127$4,564$8,700$484,71760$1,457,327Montana

141$15,023,21613$925,151$0$267,66549$5,699,913Nebraska

803$111,565,721160$3,085,302$0$2,886,178149$45,587,163Nevada

95$8,567,92116$499,717$0$237,17637$869,535New Hampshire

511$82,087,34632$7,433,325$0$1,469,483198$18,260,700New Jersey

209$6,306,87229$528,046$0$71,09375$3,878,067New Mexico

637$667,600,84552$2,464,884$0$4,148,566216$67,610,017New York, Eastern

161$23,467,16418$65,584$0$1,043,22250$4,129,789New York, Northern

837$1,805,979,00046$268,146$0$27,490,612289$801,397,718New York, Southern

347$39,806,82035$158,021$0$1,570,75782$17,305,730New York, Western

713$13,504,481103$67,843$0$915,052160$5,574,669North Carolina, Eastern**

276$7,225,06226$300,129$0$286,14699$3,390,401North Carolina, Middle

350$23,834,34221$0$0$718,514197$16,935,707North Carolina, Western

139$4,103,22359$1,746,835$0$89,03643$1,012,758North Dakota

0$00$0$0$00$0Northern Mariana Islands*

1,134$99,278,13567$555,068$0$1,152,614210$29,784,235Ohio, Northern

392$43,709,46529$144,782$0$307,665160$27,066,262Ohio, Southern

44$1,127,35711$3,027$0$114,16725$998,213Oklahoma, Eastern

259$11,534,420100$2,327,933$0$432,96399$7,844,358Oklahoma, Northern

204$13,339,91314$35,516$0$137,92072$3,386,615Oklahoma, Western

432$14,141,39340$132,029$89,731$587,840205$5,887,931Oregon

Table 12B (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

443$145,234,83922$9,136$0$831,168113$41,550,693Pennsylvania, Eastern

184$13,950,49224$128,982$0$603,03671$2,218,198Pennsylvania, Middle

128$13,054,24712$367$0$892,68380$4,848,366Pennsylvania, Western

103$9,585,51612$5,417$0$81,46849$7,308,980Puerto Rico

136$59,860,9068$1,221$0$190,70916$1,062,343Rhode Island

571$22,762,14158$244,255$0$468,095239$8,487,131South Carolina

316$13,218,16756$322,833$0$616,130124$2,199,751South Dakota

233$38,375,65420$603,189$0$426,39368$2,451,500Tennessee, Eastern

126$10,411,65824$58,791$0$344,03444$2,722,677Tennessee, Middle

265$15,073,85214$361,547$0$160,88372$4,456,131Tennessee, Western

377$53,592,18646$7,354,964$0$1,541,06073$10,699,984Texas, Eastern

856$115,697,47555$2,476,301$0$1,742,623467$29,088,966Texas, Northern

724$137,749,59420$328,412$0$791,900150$20,289,044Texas, Southern

798$126,982,08232$79,489$227,258$1,273,171115$19,472,853Texas, Western

205$27,586,15820$65,791$0$510,26570$17,031,902Utah

51$19,434,57111$146,383$0$591,03523$4,768,374Vermont

39$2,301,3353$21,378$0$28,65116$741,643Virgin Islands

971$72,300,79390$1,019,701$106,362$3,885,041303$34,004,312Virginia, Eastern

146$15,970,15020$1,239,432$0$295,57363$6,762,832Virginia, Western

161$5,405,91522$54,106$0$163,61534$1,026,986Washington, Eastern

582$196,084,81441$91,085$37,706$12,292,637144$50,627,748Washington, Western

91$4,891,71911$0$0$2,734,05026$2,585,818West Virginia, Northern

184$27,737,02429$1,388,077$0$168,54449$7,220,928West Virginia, Southern

425$35,533,39272$1,371,366$0$2,074,670100$8,983,455Wisconsin, Eastern

191$21,445,05970$3,595,418$0$1,572,16555$6,114,019Wisconsin, Western

167$10,193,71927$122,182$0$243,77964$2,375,617Wyoming

34,705$8,564,658,6543,517$132,428,726$429,211$149,925,7679,834$2,452,426,036All Districts

Data on this table excludes Asset Forfeitures.

Dollar amount of debts opened does not include adjustments.

Collected amount includes payments received by the United States Attorneys, the Courts, and other agencies.

Other decreases includes transfers, remands, presidential pardon, death of debtor, etc.

*Data for the Districts of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands are combined.

**Data provided by the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Table 12C

United States Attorney Debt Collection for Fiscal Year 1999

Criminal Total

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

598$10,818,560340$227,560$0$371,319410$842,214Alabama, Middle

1,948$41,573,832425$903,371$0$922,844732$8,554,087Alabama, Northern

720$26,187,735504$11,606,021$0$539,854431$3,560,327Alabama, Southern

589$20,814,846274$72,031$0$3,743,893367$12,670,596Alaska

3,828$143,277,2661,582$733,913$667$2,299,7611,914$8,147,942Arizona

622$10,346,012433$199,669$0$411,038390$3,382,613Arkansas, Eastern

596$4,841,118203$306,062$0$414,570268$2,436,714Arkansas, Western

7,255$1,701,017,7982,192$39,124,134$651,929$51,762,5172,836$287,438,246California, Central

1,964$74,273,049625$3,993,155$0$2,909,861677$12,036,693California, Eastern

3,826$422,899,661993$7,197,236$0$81,784,4421,458$157,150,875California, Northern

2,519$107,539,4581,629$2,809,883$148,307$3,272,7712,250$53,657,580California, Southern

1,046$73,275,344719$2,137,106$0$26,070,783776$17,057,217Colorado

882$78,211,916306$925,338$0$3,012,755433$16,159,209Connecticut

274$11,630,947153$213,366$0$436,265143$719,015Delaware

2,437$361,156,608562$541,946$0$1,404,871861$25,321,593District of Columbia

4,334$500,630,6721,475$365,951$505$16,588,3642,142$258,950,585Florida, Middle

1,316$102,498,496372$2,628,414$0$1,022,034425$6,805,317Florida, Northern

8,677$917,551,6721,321$3,601,413$1,134$12,217,1822,719$94,086,680Florida, Southern

822$11,966,971545$428,647$0$672,670562$4,249,897Georgia, Middle

3,496$138,164,191984$8,635,705$0$7,332,0791,217$75,752,145Georgia, Northern

1,044$27,607,998476$11,876,274$2,893$10,703,712504$11,719,169Georgia, Southern

467$3,569,091170$227,954$0$265,832329$1,295,240Guam*

860$23,244,066447$573,985$2,922$520,732429$2,759,313Hawaii

552$5,903,007187$584,178$0$451,142279$3,971,717Idaho

865$55,512,809375$1,684,017$0$1,862,739459$10,027,708Illinois, Central

3,672$380,262,313809$5,594,045$108,575$18,002,3751,314$73,464,099Illinois, Northern

1,541$30,971,642513$1,934,550$0$6,234,578766$20,222,002Illinois, Southern

1,041$31,670,348352$1,223,398$0$779,706566$10,119,963Indiana, Northern

1,055$20,057,330303$24,294$0$791,127426$6,788,371Indiana, Southern

553$17,980,153245$751,502$0$1,134,754273$4,240,534Iowa, Northern

467$9,797,352311$12,888$0$963,251496$2,660,751Iowa, Southern

1,057$85,741,115428$3,635,346$0$2,039,611561$44,253,770Kansas

882$37,623,736505$1,309,515$2,575$1,145,345618$6,081,046Kentucky, Eastern

Table 12C (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

1,078$38,472,862841$1,994,017$2,432$1,148,0941,146$6,564,928Kentucky, Western

1,685$61,190,130549$5,964,494-$56,100$3,940,127821$25,033,840Louisiana, Eastern

414$32,491,217195$1,043,866$0$501,502341$2,201,944Louisiana, Middle

800$57,184,8561,359$577,555$0$1,470,4891,501$15,166,827Louisiana, Western

404$17,653,443193$1,589,202$0$488,186220$11,074,153Maine

1,924$67,448,504512$140,990$0$3,622,141874$22,454,630Maryland

2,337$325,819,478351$381,526$0$72,432,957653$122,407,104Massachusetts

2,977$215,448,2831,039$31,701,159$105$5,319,8021,152$52,549,853Michigan, Eastern

1,441$33,111,533411$223,901$18,500$1,052,279694$5,692,433Michigan, Western

969$61,495,426412$953,747$0$2,168,949655$33,203,345Minnesota

576$13,860,847339$1,173,329$0$588,941251$2,158,979Mississippi, Northern

1,162$14,705,644426$174,028$0$472,720537$3,695,145Mississippi, Southern

1,379$28,733,431777$1,517,966$0$14,967,2871,032$25,890,595Missouri, Eastern

1,531$87,497,267525$1,223,181$0$905,848640$15,949,173Missouri, Western

703$16,236,226314$19,151$12,280$856,056384$2,128,968Montana

591$16,289,677421$1,216,962$13,290$483,644487$5,874,696Nebraska

2,267$122,867,627705$4,596,497$0$4,192,382766$47,813,614Nevada

362$20,740,172153$567,348$0$559,642208$1,180,796New Hampshire

3,794$138,212,6911,088$11,099,823$4,714$4,872,0761,721$23,521,299New Jersey

2,010$14,450,951566$620,621$0$2,106,1881,173$6,424,227New Mexico

4,870$861,200,5831,517$23,565,896$0$14,022,7012,129$89,340,148New York, Eastern

722$29,866,768791$347,313$3,840$7,229,376853$10,611,974New York, Northern

4,689$2,135,180,3291,891$4,113,764$1,805$96,028,8042,541$885,821,132New York, Southern

1,116$44,109,816550$295,852$0$3,160,318638$19,614,910New York, Western

2,612$37,335,3192,299$1,927,274$0$2,201,9061,536$8,855,120North Carolina, Eastern**

1,042$12,333,064462$562,451$0$664,813551$3,762,325North Carolina, Middle

2,148$35,733,485911$14,538$0$1,618,8951,331$21,347,929North Carolina, Western

416$9,040,619287$1,762,499$0$969,609264$2,875,292North Dakota

0$00$0$0$00$0Northern Mariana Islands*

2,612$145,971,802922$960,458$0$3,721,6891,056$38,651,963Ohio, Northern

1,926$63,179,905745$2,401,417$0$996,6781,163$30,061,783Ohio, Southern

165$2,130,17098$50,772$0$226,794148$1,217,581Oklahoma, Eastern

811$28,026,015410$12,757,219$0$848,379423$9,890,460Oklahoma, Northern

661$27,470,550288$359,919$0$671,367355$4,745,551Oklahoma, Western

2,275$17,053,346614$681,567$89,731$1,238,2441,094$6,656,341Oregon

Table 12C (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

4,074$467,488,5671,139$711,564$0$58,252,7491,385$260,569,808Pennsylvania, Eastern

935$18,927,625479$196,337$0$1,553,307595$3,440,733Pennsylvania, Middle

894$29,515,335335$2,643,049$0$2,030,272432$6,306,570Pennsylvania, Western

1,145$122,021,218470$156,657$0$8,614,604568$17,422,667Puerto Rico

795$123,304,003169$262,359$0$597,670208$1,571,892Rhode Island

1,888$37,796,956946$271,403$0$8,742,1031,195$16,761,792South Carolina

870$17,505,501514$736,151$0$999,167649$2,728,062South Dakota

1,048$46,705,355526$764,964$0$1,313,733623$3,667,629Tennessee, Eastern

495$16,994,359212$1,237,352$0$496,731273$2,884,974Tennessee, Middle

1,456$27,386,468385$392,169$0$1,454,552399$5,126,521Tennessee, Western

1,694$80,206,769666$14,657,261$0$2,826,050823$22,748,058Texas, Eastern

3,843$357,423,3721,205$4,091,800$0$516,220,0652,305$534,458,282Texas, Northern

10,439$496,967,2011,395$625,278$0$3,344,2993,756$61,991,908Texas, Southern

11,777$301,942,8773,013$6,526,572$227,258$8,551,4514,674$37,494,790Texas, Western

1,707$30,696,595400$633,332$0$2,122,888823$18,739,325Utah

187$22,796,205181$967,154$0$725,784218$6,217,944Vermont

332$9,542,823177$32,318$0$78,002156$844,728Virgin Islands

4,798$113,494,7912,277$2,221,302$207,733$6,054,9733,281$52,298,092Virginia, Eastern

1,604$33,429,668720$1,671,694$0$2,684,843852$10,458,641Virginia, Western

644$8,656,633351$99,380$0$453,082434$1,472,652Washington, Eastern

2,179$242,258,082473$333,764$67,344$14,205,951692$53,286,889Washington, Western

488$30,944,918208$31,815$0$2,849,810226$24,425,079West Virginia, Northern

939$34,584,917317$4,770,714$0$434,621367$8,311,555West Virginia, Southern

1,383$45,194,321450$1,404,058$0$2,664,355567$9,714,696Wisconsin, Eastern

400$24,482,261231$3,675,786$0$1,799,922221$6,775,015Wisconsin, Western

633$11,554,054217$244,025$0$324,480400$2,536,801Wyoming

172,921$13,072,980,02361,175$282,021,429$1,512,438$1,167,229,12183,491$3,983,277,391All Districts

Data on this table excludes Asset Forfeitures.

Dollar amount of debts opened does not include adjustments.

Collected amount includes payments received by the United States Attorneys, the Courts, and other agencies.

Other decreases includes transfers, remands, presidential pardon, death of debtor, etc.

*Data for the Districts of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands are combined.

**Data provided by the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Table 12D

United States Attorney Debt Collection for Fiscal Year 1999

Bankruptcies and Foreclosures

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

1$81328$46,084$0$156,70525$158,373Alabama, Middle

32$4,456,03462$702,411$0$1,735,06150$3,160,581Alabama, Northern

7$17,6942$0$0$75,6382$70,299Alabama, Southern

3$210,3810$0$0$6000$32Alaska

27$1,263,7787$404,179$0$244,8597$239,819Arizona

0$087$5,305,321$105,350$2,554,54875$6,688,374Arkansas, Eastern

1$6,95757$1,095,987$157,616$1,560,27654$2,396,738Arkansas, Western

1$206,5574$0$0$120,0001$125,942California, Central

10$1,422,47514$669,065$0$3,219,45111$2,645,621California, Eastern

2$14,4922$0$0$5,1052$5,105California, Northern

1$7580$0$0$700$0California, Southern

3$92,7870$0$0$7,9000$0Colorado

7$834,08860$3,019,146$2,976,760$855,36162$6,891,779Connecticut

1$224,0023$0$0$93,1412$79,753Delaware

0$151,0721$0$0$151,0721$0District of Columbia

12$2,122,005116$1,213,959$3,686,651$1,353,910117$6,690,039Florida, Middle

1$032$1,228,271$425,520$978,13232$2,556,930Florida, Northern

84$3,484,59532$0$497,980$496,45668$2,688,011Florida, Southern

1$10,45545$0$0$1,445,21545$1,444,015Georgia, Middle

50$720,57832$643,816$0$769,71431$758,582Georgia, Northern

10$164,00710$4,233$0$20,92414$29,391Georgia, Southern

0$00$0$0$00$0Guam*

5$72,36119$264,400$0$1,091,33023$1,426,997Hawaii

4$1,113,76626$5,055,272$1,437,551$1,759,39518$6,380,102Idaho

2$136,56427$390,620$72,200$815,03529$1,235,424Illinois, Central

46$1,745,40945$1,121,757$1,716,864$1,777,47043$3,169,725Illinois, Northern

3$83,07448$1,173,079$182,930$1,251,15448$2,482,402Illinois, Southern

12$586,97945$1,836,813$267,397$2,791,43040$4,992,686Indiana, Northern

47$8,356,199104$5,067,710$1,524,878$2,732,83377$6,220,833Indiana, Southern

10$915,51324$779,521$90,900$736,74425$1,547,045Iowa, Northern

15$450,90615$149,531$135,984$1,634,84718$1,311,387Iowa, Southern

31$1,535,314114$4,282,713$315,028$2,327,038104$5,674,545Kansas

162$9,799,210153$4,559,888$224,415$3,022,607151$7,140,813Kentucky, Eastern

Table 12D (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

17$1,139,43680$2,871,101$238,463$2,496,35480$5,687,190Kentucky, Western

6$7,278,2698$17,300$0$74,34116$295,543Louisiana, Eastern

23$5,512,17522$1,540,777$571,283$1,855,7997$1,900,153Louisiana, Middle

11$1,961,12717$3,682,437$0$437,47912$728,379Louisiana, Western

1$773,66838$3,221,899$45,495$1,864,30139$5,861,116Maine

0$07$787,244$120,800$761,7237$1,669,767Maryland

2$55,1955$294,545$0$612,5934$613,766Massachusetts

0$153,9436$0$0$153,4836$460Michigan, Eastern

19$467,66325$102,600$0$504,73116$357,150Michigan, Western

15$163,11246$173,434$46,200$1,037,99559$1,229,181Minnesota

7$1,011,46612$0$0$124,78912$103,473Mississippi, Northern

11$996,44821$211,700$0$1,572,06419$1,146,772Mississippi, Southern

4$128,8532$0$0$88,9592$81,093Missouri, Eastern

1$9,1642$7,740$0$1,4070-$18,978Missouri, Western

8$2,054,42122$4,529,822$2,275,129$2,377,59617$7,051,768Montana

28$2,492,51268$3,530,128$834,779$2,354,54360$6,340,716Nebraska

1$51,9351$0$0$91,9081$80,000Nevada

0$01$0$0$118,2461$118,246New Hampshire

12$15,463,46317$671,354$100$1,615,02514$16,958,777New Jersey

7$555,68013$236,037$200,000$738,85814$1,346,546New Mexico

209$23,900,77131$100,651$0$6,035,88868$6,114,617New York, Eastern

11$2,240,621113$8,631,665$1,330,431$3,763,529114$14,642,166New York, Northern

38$18,223,66414$47,353,534$0$2,307,64717$52,523,937New York, Southern

6$819,94836$2,857,231$114,990$1,755,20438$5,296,708New York, Western

4$200,1262$0$0$149,8352$142,599North Carolina, Eastern

12$41,6163$0$0$436,3672$375,260North Carolina, Middle

9$319,9442$19,248$0$92,9660$0North Carolina, Western

60$7,907,19448$6,303,402$383,908$3,762,98658$8,601,524North Dakota

0$00$0$0$00$0Northern Mariana Islands*

118$11,112,995134$4,513,051$111,475$2,272,03796$3,720,334Ohio, Northern

33$1,969,01064$6,274,426$0$1,379,63362$7,583,848Ohio, Southern

10$505,24636$1,437,551$303,602$774,85934$2,176,289Oklahoma, Eastern

3$16,14129$863,259$564,086$813,41930$1,957,587Oklahoma, Northern

13$1,352,889102$10,086,544$551,279$4,064,189100$11,523,980Oklahoma, Western

9$918,45321$584,500$739,953$1,241,57924$2,573,443Oregon

Table 12D (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

36$3,414,79746$2,238,997$97,423$957,94820$1,813,578Pennsylvania, Eastern

16$1,495,16726$1,434,255$79,257$661,00526$2,347,221Pennsylvania, Middle

19$995,09928$1,263,986$0$814,80729$1,654,323Pennsylvania, Western

21$1,583,477186$5,916,814$1,605,876$8,864,525169$14,564,086Puerto Rico

1$191,7120$0$0$01$0Rhode Island

9$1,397,608260$5,349,695$678,989$6,807,222255$10,317,802South Carolina

2$240,85621$1,885,647$70,372$1,542,56321$3,489,328South Dakota

9$1,097,0298$32,666$0$465,31013$1,595,005Tennessee, Eastern

5$188,06117$3,000$0$2,010,83818$2,107,906Tennessee, Middle

1$07$28,976$0$8,5234$8,413Tennessee, Western

0$02$25,491$0$00$0Texas, Eastern

15$17,940,45520$8,126$0$711,18824$721,544Texas, Northern

11$556,1516$645,020$0$88,7492$298,383Texas, Southern

2$89,9683$150$0$3,3360$0Texas, Western

0$02$0$0$92,3062$92,306Utah

2$1,00134$0$1,167,611$795,63736$1,964,109Vermont

5$980,1231$0$0$21,8001$17,950Virgin Islands

43$726,71681$1,865,796$0$1,706,37240$1,058,025Virginia, Eastern

1$146,47031$126,380$35,066$237,06129$298,199Virginia, Western

0$08$1,016,101$459,600$972,7938$2,274,318Washington, Eastern

5$816,63510$168,206$0$404,7826$289,946Washington, Western

2$47,91317$74,443$0$718,6328$764,581West Virginia, Northern

4$1,308,8348$17,872$0$1,673,0428$2,925,316West Virginia, Southern

17$1,493,51324$1,076,507$0$1,047,74425$2,700,462Wisconsin, Eastern

21$2,468,84849$3,561,162$0$2,538,34239$5,436,510Wisconsin, Western

2$197,1874$0$0$114,3654$114,365Wyoming

1,548$187,373,5933,161$176,656,246$26,444,190$116,775,2502,994$303,848,426All Districts

Data on this table excludes Asset Forfeitures.

Dollar amount of debts opened does not include adjustments.

Collected amount includes payments received by the United States Attorneys, the Courts, and other agencies.

*Data for the Districts of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands are combined.

Table 12E

United States Attorney Debt Collection for Fiscal Year 1999

Other Civil Debts

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

224$4,239,902179$1,541,737$0$417,408199$1,838,476Alabama, Middle

612$7,406,206511$4,932,955$1,699$2,396,332515$6,910,752Alabama, Northern

192$1,427,195186$597,019$0$1,273,750235$1,879,265Alabama, Southern

177$9,152,89342$899,705$0$6,893,00461$7,953,027Alaska

548$22,202,724188$720,229$0$1,784,266221$1,152,833Arizona

327$5,332,165101$1,004,846$0$629,456167$1,087,504Arkansas, Eastern

105$1,251,16362$277,223$0$323,42297$1,096,053Arkansas, Western

25,285$151,633,3452,240$1,876,295$63,620$14,804,46215,884$62,307,888California, Central

709$11,553,628145$1,636,893$0$16,609,057430$15,919,000California, Eastern

9,691$76,675,033727$341$12,429$7,971,6095,832$45,841,150California, Northern

367$13,135,811361$3,845,804$0$9,413,959596$20,329,746California, Southern

210$4,882,986131$5,998,353$5,319$5,587,21481$5,334,985Colorado

288$22,583,95280$5,088,664$4,790$2,845,040224$17,765,810Connecticut

95$724,87948$171,733$0$6,001,397105$6,566,825Delaware

2,907$105,737,979112$67$0$10,678,3381,249$82,459,316District of Columbia

2,831$46,269,214560$2,212,011$0$36,973,9581,486$46,188,320Florida, Middle

501$13,007,569162$2,134,180$0$1,936,808180-$251,279Florida, Northern

12,338$79,118,933523$1,961$31,535$6,490,6687,654$29,043,954Florida, Southern

223$2,933,562154$3,128,136$0$418,469187$3,382,551Georgia, Middle

1,856$35,518,728317$3,419,088$149,454$44,792,211725$45,268,291Georgia, Northern

172$6,338,59574$980,187$942$2,958,562109$2,604,207Georgia, Southern

203$3,886,242143$2,948,591$0$1,906,054203$5,523,101Guam*

187$3,479,031133$1,554,257$0$3,866,74691$4,513,862Hawaii

151$3,656,207146$7,529,506$200,689$18,688,401138$20,237,587Idaho

282$8,386,609224$1,441,609$0$780,389324$1,391,871Illinois, Central

1,995$65,082,448153$1,139,077$1,141,159$24,408,898902$38,153,106Illinois, Northern

324$1,921,370277$1,201,283$0$144,907,736317$145,968,815Illinois, Southern

420$5,266,897211$1,366,223$0$8,586,091339$11,574,284Indiana, Northern

625$5,631,393297$2,435,392$0$8,461,155462$12,676,039Indiana, Southern

214$2,757,421198$318,905$0$2,191,323265$2,775,712Iowa, Northern

390$4,468,368127$426,459$0$1,514,144286$3,329,714Iowa, Southern

467$4,585,323476$3,554,358$0$2,958,351593$5,684,835Kansas

376$9,864,652331$649,229$0$6,716,259420$11,462,289Kentucky, Eastern

Table 12E (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

346$5,302,943144$739,246$0$1,417,414213$3,617,736Kentucky, Western

649$9,703,580275$22,080,978$0$34,839,540543$25,754,556Louisiana, Eastern

183$2,154,84546$105,501$0$266,02170$370,384Louisiana, Middle

713$4,774,445270$376,960$0$763,934444$2,715,110Louisiana, Western

174$4,074,305109$398,256$0$285,213178$1,423,359Maine

1,481$25,581,109267$1,138,402$41$11,690,468777$13,368,475Maryland

833$37,327,051569$14,671,357$324,808$25,223,426386$23,962,960Massachusetts

17,506$94,618,682858$81,347$10,051$15,641,5187,940$34,328,371Michigan, Eastern

641$12,282,571226$1,096,851$61,200$4,334,348510$6,295,126Michigan, Western

1,764$14,777,237542$2,950,937$4,000,000$32,877,5061,152$42,531,593Minnesota

152$2,047,01599$748,043$0$838,636132$1,220,175Mississippi, Northern

492$5,090,223320$640,506$113,045$3,169,786406$3,826,048Mississippi, Southern

1,044$17,124,486386$2,592,993$0$6,976,581660$10,456,056Missouri, Eastern

912$21,154,217243$4,671,195$0$1,318,575467$5,377,272Missouri, Western

124$3,200,03445$254,188$0$9,881,05786-$11,185,530Montana

358$4,995,770272$5,373,722$48,147$1,006,678290$2,901,272Nebraska

239$2,963,814108$1,096,453$0$1,926,708174$2,942,955Nevada

143$2,360,27171$3,441,136$0$1,613,453126$4,594,007New Hampshire

1,514$184,141,656706$7,716,502$0$103,093,062669$93,012,769New Jersey

345$8,707,24165$30,946$0$2,752,042169$8,406,137New Mexico

12,763$99,678,458459$248$10,402$5,427,5396,789$37,864,473New York, Eastern

521$15,961,965210$700,312$108,989$5,655,207331$8,165,030New York, Northern

1,117$73,948,130319$4,431,864$535,365$73,886,125529$88,494,905New York, Southern

457$6,356,155111$856,337$0$42,479,676264$41,621,082New York, Western

889$23,993,323223$3,312,661$0$6,521,131355$12,987,668North Carolina, Eastern

316$2,431,789226$587,893$0$752,245213$1,463,182North Carolina, Middle

366$4,515,46530$742,962$0$3,907,583135$4,761,450North Carolina, Western

242$14,129,078141$7,030,701$335,082$5,262,564122$4,309,097North Dakota

0$00$0$0$00$0Northern Mariana Islands*

2,662$25,557,096579$3,863,369$0$12,107,5551,845$20,404,421Ohio, Northern

1,113$17,565,172368$835,971$0$11,900,756861$18,546,398Ohio, Southern

88$1,784,19449$230,727$0$254,20190$1,221,458Oklahoma, Eastern

152$960,242224$1,935,691$0$539,663252$1,711,447Oklahoma, Northern

403$4,962,109164$790,438$0$1,066,687362$3,128,145Oklahoma, Western

204$3,719,643102$626,006$1,250,000$2,177,763167$5,104,433Oregon

Table 12E (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

788$90,369,942712$3,772,240$0$65,111,304646$79,896,600Pennsylvania, Eastern

258$13,506,737368$432,840$0$25,883,176392$24,605,180Pennsylvania, Middle

1,000$15,963,589316$13,552,265$0$4,903,410571$10,538,915Pennsylvania, Western

434$13,653,512105$382,852$0$16,203,142137$16,713,778Puerto Rico

132$5,299,14270$228,616$0$5,908,648117$6,324,812Rhode Island

993$18,059,977369$883,211$350$2,014,885571$3,499,784South Carolina

48$6,191,17588$1,369,366$0$4,048,04663$9,481,532South Dakota

315$8,621,12894$2,313,500$0$1,069,068150$2,582,901Tennessee, Eastern

259$3,381,662213$3,273,023$0$14,193,149209$11,318,876Tennessee, Middle

541$7,938,222207$709,321$0$2,014,348280$3,675,745Tennessee, Western

340$4,459,862204$1,314,122$0$1,046,866273$3,991,168Texas, Eastern

1,883$147,696,472314$7,898,227$0$6,334,567904$21,451,715Texas, Northern

18,071$115,185,348925$190,765$9,536$3,575,75710,642$40,287,626Texas, Southern

975$12,160,927522$1,733,484$8,547$1,871,229992$6,946,028Texas, Western

138$4,469,77094$1,218,138$0$1,178,52489$2,207,533Utah

60$1,256,59041$431,533$0$4,372,96359$4,683,874Vermont

19$1,197,59011$8,666$0$494,2848$484,126Virgin Islands

840$62,011,230498$3,871,156$19,713$32,266,611732$39,757,995Virginia, Eastern

198$26,101,435120$1,188,484$0$1,403,021114$19,796,565Virginia, Western

106$2,365,33775$295,690$0$228,78690$994,433Washington, Eastern

204$15,653,83053$1,537,649$0$3,903,63680$6,304,532Washington, Western

140$1,333,53761$114,705$0$1,397,18190$1,784,300West Virginia, Northern

190$3,950,37591$309,111$111,047$11,158,998125$2,954,718West Virginia, Southern

299$8,189,851317$879,847$0$6,390,219486$5,793,668Wisconsin, Eastern

359$3,395,642238$362,729$0$2,621,693358$2,832,341Wisconsin, Western

85$3,566,87138$1,318,584$0$696,02463$851,032Wyoming

144,873$2,094,036,49624,589$210,773,141$8,557,960$1,058,329,13386,525$1,523,431,687All Districts

Data on this table excludes Asset Forfeitures.

Dollar amount of debts opened does not include adjustments.

Collected amount includes payments received by the United States Attorneys, the Courts, and other agencies.

Other decreases includes transfers, closed as uncollectible, compromised, returned to agency, etc.

*Data for the Districts of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands are combined.

Table 12F

United States Attorney Debt Collection for Fiscal Year 1999

Civil Total

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

225$4,240,714207$1,587,820$0$574,113224$1,996,850Alabama, Middle

644$11,862,240573$5,635,366$1,699$4,131,393565$10,071,333Alabama, Northern

199$1,444,890188$597,019$0$1,349,388237$1,949,564Alabama, Southern

180$9,363,27542$899,705$0$6,893,60461$7,953,059Alaska

575$23,466,502195$1,124,408$0$2,029,126228$1,392,652Arizona

327$5,332,165188$6,310,167$105,350$3,184,004242$7,775,879Arkansas, Eastern

106$1,258,121119$1,373,209$157,616$1,883,698151$3,492,791Arkansas, Western

25,286$151,839,9022,244$1,876,295$63,620$14,924,46215,885$62,433,830California, Central

719$12,976,104159$2,305,958$0$19,828,509441$18,564,620California, Eastern

9,693$76,689,525729$341$12,429$7,976,7145,834$45,846,255California, Northern

368$13,136,570361$3,845,804$0$9,414,029596$20,329,746California, Southern

213$4,975,773131$5,998,353$5,319$5,595,11481$5,334,985Colorado

295$23,418,040140$8,107,810$2,981,551$3,700,401286$24,657,589Connecticut

96$948,88251$171,733$0$6,094,538107$6,646,578Delaware

2,907$105,889,051113$67$0$10,829,4101,250$82,459,316District of Columbia

2,843$48,391,219676$3,425,971$3,686,651$38,327,8681,603$52,878,359Florida, Middle

502$13,007,569194$3,362,451$425,520$2,914,940212$2,305,651Florida, Northern

12,422$82,603,527555$1,961$529,515$6,987,1247,722$31,731,965Florida, Southern

224$2,944,017199$3,128,136$0$1,863,684232$4,826,566Georgia, Middle

1,906$36,239,306349$4,062,904$149,454$45,561,925756$46,026,873Georgia, Northern

182$6,502,60284$984,420$942$2,979,486123$2,633,598Georgia, Southern

203$3,886,242143$2,948,591$0$1,906,054203$5,523,101Guam*

192$3,551,392152$1,818,657$0$4,958,076114$5,940,859Hawaii

155$4,769,973172$12,584,778$1,638,240$20,447,797156$26,617,689Idaho

284$8,523,173251$1,832,229$72,200$1,595,424353$2,627,294Illinois, Central

2,041$66,827,857198$2,260,834$2,858,023$26,186,368945$41,322,830Illinois, Northern

327$2,004,445325$2,374,362$182,930$146,158,890365$148,451,218Illinois, Southern

432$5,853,875256$3,203,036$267,397$11,377,521379$16,566,970Indiana, Northern

672$13,987,592401$7,503,102$1,524,878$11,193,988539$18,896,871Indiana, Southern

224$3,672,935222$1,098,426$90,900$2,928,068290$4,322,757Iowa, Northern

405$4,919,274142$575,990$135,984$3,148,991304$4,641,101Iowa, Southern

498$6,120,637590$7,837,071$315,028$5,285,389697$11,359,379Kansas

538$19,663,863484$5,209,117$224,415$9,738,866571$18,603,102Kentucky, Eastern

Table 12F (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

363$6,442,379224$3,610,347$238,463$3,913,768293$9,304,926Kentucky, Western

655$16,981,849283$22,098,278$0$34,913,882559$26,050,099Louisiana, Eastern

206$7,667,01968$1,646,279$571,283$2,121,82077$2,270,536Louisiana, Middle

724$6,735,572287$4,059,396$0$1,201,412456$3,443,489Louisiana, Western

175$4,847,974147$3,620,156$45,495$2,149,515217$7,284,475Maine

1,481$25,581,109274$1,925,647$120,841$12,452,191784$15,038,243Maryland

835$37,382,247574$14,965,902$324,808$25,836,019390$24,576,726Massachusetts

17,506$94,772,625864$81,347$10,051$15,795,0017,946$34,328,831Michigan, Eastern

660$12,750,233251$1,199,451$61,200$4,839,078526$6,652,275Michigan, Western

1,779$14,940,349588$3,124,371$4,046,200$33,915,5011,211$43,760,774Minnesota

159$3,058,481111$748,043$0$963,425144$1,323,648Mississippi, Northern

503$6,086,671341$852,206$113,045$4,741,850425$4,972,820Mississippi, Southern

1,048$17,253,338388$2,592,993$0$7,065,540662$10,537,149Missouri, Eastern

913$21,163,381245$4,678,936$0$1,319,981467$5,358,294Missouri, Western

132$5,254,45567$4,784,010$2,275,129$12,258,654103-$4,133,762Montana

386$7,488,282340$8,903,850$882,926$3,361,221350$9,241,988Nebraska

240$3,015,750109$1,096,453$0$2,018,616175$3,022,955Nevada

143$2,360,27172$3,441,136$0$1,731,699127$4,712,253New Hampshire

1,526$199,605,120723$8,387,856$100$104,708,087683$109,971,545New Jersey

352$9,262,92278$266,983$200,000$3,490,900183$9,752,683New Mexico

12,972$123,579,230490$100,899$10,402$11,463,4266,857$43,979,089New York, Eastern

532$18,202,586323$9,331,977$1,439,420$9,418,735445$22,807,195New York, Northern

1,155$92,171,794333$51,785,398$535,365$76,193,772546$141,018,842New York, Southern

463$7,176,103147$3,713,567$114,990$44,234,880302$46,917,790New York, Western

893$24,193,449225$3,312,661$0$6,670,965357$13,130,267North Carolina, Eastern

328$2,473,405229$587,893$0$1,188,612215$1,838,441North Carolina, Middle

375$4,835,40932$762,210$0$4,000,549135$4,761,450North Carolina, Western

302$22,036,272189$13,334,103$718,990$9,025,550180$12,910,622North Dakota

0$00$0$0$00$0Northern Mariana Islands*

2,780$36,670,091713$8,376,420$111,475$14,379,5921,941$24,124,755Ohio, Northern

1,146$19,534,182432$7,110,398$0$13,280,388923$26,130,246Ohio, Southern

98$2,289,44085$1,668,279$303,602$1,029,060124$3,397,747Oklahoma, Eastern

155$976,383253$2,798,950$564,086$1,353,082282$3,669,035Oklahoma, Northern

416$6,314,998266$10,876,982$551,279$5,130,876462$14,652,125Oklahoma, Western

213$4,638,096123$1,210,505$1,989,953$3,419,342191$7,677,876Oregon

Table 12F (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

824$93,784,739758$6,011,237$97,423$66,069,252666$81,710,178Pennsylvania, Eastern

274$15,001,904394$1,867,094$79,257$26,544,182418$26,952,400Pennsylvania, Middle

1,019$16,958,688344$14,816,252$0$5,718,218600$12,193,239Pennsylvania, Western

455$15,236,989291$6,299,666$1,605,876$25,067,668306$31,277,864Puerto Rico

133$5,490,85470$228,616$0$5,908,648118$6,324,812Rhode Island

1,002$19,457,585629$6,232,906$679,339$8,822,106826$13,817,586South Carolina

50$6,432,031109$3,255,013$70,372$5,590,60984$12,970,860South Dakota

324$9,718,158102$2,346,166$0$1,534,378163$4,177,906Tennessee, Eastern

264$3,569,723230$3,276,023$0$16,203,986227$13,426,782Tennessee, Middle

542$7,938,222214$738,296$0$2,022,871284$3,684,158Tennessee, Western

340$4,459,862206$1,339,613$0$1,046,866273$3,991,168Texas, Eastern

1,898$165,636,927334$7,906,352$0$7,045,755928$22,173,259Texas, Northern

18,082$115,741,499931$835,785$9,536$3,664,50610,644$40,586,009Texas, Southern

977$12,250,896525$1,733,634$8,547$1,874,565992$6,946,028Texas, Western

138$4,469,77096$1,218,138$0$1,270,83091$2,299,839Utah

62$1,257,59175$431,533$1,167,611$5,168,60095$6,647,984Vermont

24$2,177,71312$8,666$0$516,0849$502,076Virgin Islands

883$62,737,946579$5,736,952$19,713$33,972,983772$40,816,020Virginia, Eastern

199$26,247,905151$1,314,864$35,066$1,640,082143$20,094,764Virginia, Western

106$2,365,33783$1,311,791$459,600$1,201,57998$3,268,751Washington, Eastern

209$16,470,46563$1,705,855$0$4,308,41886$6,594,478Washington, Western

142$1,381,45078$189,148$0$2,115,81398$2,548,881West Virginia, Northern

194$5,259,20999$326,983$111,047$12,832,041133$5,880,034West Virginia, Southern

316$9,683,364341$1,956,355$0$7,437,964511$8,494,129Wisconsin, Eastern

380$5,864,490287$3,923,890$0$5,160,035397$8,268,851Wisconsin, Western

87$3,764,05842$1,318,584$0$810,39067$965,397Wyoming

146,421$2,281,410,08927,750$387,429,387$35,002,150$1,175,104,38389,519$1,827,280,113All Districts

Data on this table excludes Asset Forfeitures.

Dollar amount of debts opened does not include adjustments.

Collected amount includes payments received by the United States Attorneys, the Courts, and other agencies.

Other decreases includes transfers, closed as uncollectible, compromised, returned to agency, etc.

*Data for the Districts of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands are combined.

Table 12G

United States Attorney Debt Collection for Fiscal Year 1999

Grand Total

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

823$15,059,275547$1,815,380$0$945,432634$2,839,064Alabama, Middle

2,592$53,436,072998$6,538,737$1,699$5,054,2371,297$18,625,420Alabama, Northern

919$27,632,625692$12,203,040$0$1,889,242668$5,509,890Alabama, Southern

769$30,178,121316$971,736$0$10,637,497428$20,623,654Alaska

4,403$166,743,7681,777$1,858,321$667$4,328,8862,142$9,540,594Arizona

949$15,678,177621$6,509,836$105,350$3,595,042632$11,158,491Arkansas, Eastern

702$6,099,239322$1,679,271$157,616$2,298,268419$5,929,505Arkansas, Western

32,541$1,852,857,7004,436$41,000,430$715,549$66,686,97918,721$349,872,076California, Central

2,683$87,249,152784$6,299,113$0$22,738,3701,118$30,601,313California, Eastern

13,519$499,589,1871,722$7,197,578$12,429$89,761,1567,292$202,997,130California, Northern

2,887$120,676,0281,990$6,655,687$148,307$12,686,8012,846$73,987,326California, Southern

1,259$78,251,117850$8,135,458$5,319$31,665,898857$22,392,203Colorado

1,177$101,629,957446$9,033,148$2,981,551$6,713,156719$40,816,797Connecticut

370$12,579,829204$385,099$0$6,530,803250$7,365,593Delaware

5,344$467,045,660675$542,013$0$12,234,2812,111$107,780,910District of Columbia

7,177$549,021,8912,151$3,791,922$3,687,156$54,916,2323,745$311,828,944Florida, Middle

1,818$115,506,065566$5,990,866$425,520$3,936,974637$9,110,968Florida, Northern

21,099$1,000,155,1991,876$3,603,374$530,649$19,204,30610,441$125,818,645Florida, Southern

1,046$14,910,988744$3,556,784$0$2,536,354794$9,076,463Georgia, Middle

5,402$174,403,4971,333$12,698,609$149,454$52,894,0051,973$121,779,018Georgia, Northern

1,226$34,110,600560$12,860,695$3,835$13,683,197627$14,352,767Georgia, Southern

670$7,455,333313$3,176,546$0$2,171,886532$6,818,341Guam*

1,052$26,795,458599$2,392,642$2,922$5,478,809543$8,700,172Hawaii

707$10,672,980359$13,168,956$1,638,240$20,898,939435$30,589,406Idaho

1,149$64,035,982626$3,516,245$72,200$3,458,163812$12,655,002Illinois, Central

5,713$447,090,1701,007$7,854,878$2,966,599$44,188,7432,259$114,786,929Illinois, Northern

1,868$32,976,086838$4,308,912$182,930$152,393,4681,131$168,673,220Illinois, Southern

1,473$37,524,223608$4,426,434$267,397$12,157,227945$26,686,933Indiana, Northern

1,727$34,044,922704$7,527,396$1,524,878$11,985,115965$25,685,242Indiana, Southern

777$21,653,088467$1,849,928$90,900$4,062,822563$8,563,291Iowa, Northern

872$14,716,626453$588,877$135,984$4,112,243800$7,301,852Iowa, Southern

1,555$91,861,7521,018$11,472,417$315,028$7,325,0001,258$55,613,149Kansas

1,420$57,287,598989$6,518,631$226,990$10,884,2111,189$24,684,148Kentucky, Eastern

Table 12G (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

1,441$44,915,2421,065$5,604,364$240,895$5,061,8621,439$15,869,854Kentucky, Western

2,340$78,171,979832$28,062,772-$56,100$38,854,0081,380$51,083,939Louisiana, Eastern

620$40,158,236263$2,690,145$571,283$2,623,323418$4,472,481Louisiana, Middle

1,524$63,920,4291,646$4,636,951$0$2,671,9011,957$18,610,317Louisiana, Western

579$22,501,417340$5,209,358$45,495$2,637,700437$18,358,628Maine

3,405$93,029,613786$2,066,637$120,841$16,074,3331,658$37,492,873Maryland

3,172$363,201,725925$15,347,428$324,808$98,268,9761,043$146,983,830Massachusetts

20,483$310,220,9081,903$31,782,506$10,156$21,114,8039,098$86,878,685Michigan, Eastern

2,101$45,861,766662$1,423,351$79,700$5,891,3581,220$12,344,708Michigan, Western

2,748$76,435,7751,000$4,078,118$4,046,200$36,084,4501,866$76,964,120Minnesota

735$16,919,329450$1,921,372$0$1,552,366395$3,482,627Mississippi, Northern

1,665$20,792,315767$1,026,234$113,045$5,214,569962$8,667,965Mississippi, Southern

2,427$45,986,7691,165$4,110,960$0$22,032,8271,694$36,427,743Missouri, Eastern

2,444$108,660,647770$5,902,117$0$2,225,8291,107$21,307,467Missouri, Western

835$21,490,681381$4,803,161$2,287,409$13,114,710487-$2,004,794Montana

977$23,777,959761$10,120,811$896,216$3,844,865837$15,116,684Nebraska

2,507$125,883,377814$5,692,950$0$6,210,998941$50,836,569Nevada

505$23,100,443225$4,008,484$0$2,291,341335$5,893,050New Hampshire

5,320$337,817,8101,811$19,487,679$4,814$109,580,1632,404$133,492,844New Jersey

2,362$23,713,873644$887,604$200,000$5,597,0881,356$16,176,910New Mexico

17,842$984,779,8132,007$23,666,795$10,402$25,486,1278,986$133,319,237New York, Eastern

1,254$48,069,3541,114$9,679,290$1,443,260$16,648,1121,298$33,419,169New York, Northern

5,844$2,227,352,1232,224$55,899,162$537,170$172,222,5763,087$1,026,839,975New York, Southern

1,579$51,285,919697$4,009,419$114,990$47,395,198940$66,532,700New York, Western

3,505$61,528,7682,524$5,239,935$0$8,872,8711,893$21,985,387North Carolina, Eastern**

1,370$14,806,469691$1,150,344$0$1,853,425766$5,600,767North Carolina, Middle

2,523$40,568,894943$776,749$0$5,619,4451,466$26,109,379North Carolina, Western

718$31,076,891476$15,096,602$718,990$9,995,159444$15,785,914North Dakota

0$00$0$0$00$0Northern Mariana Islands*

5,392$182,641,8931,635$9,336,878$111,475$18,101,2802,997$62,776,719Ohio, Northern

3,072$82,714,0871,177$9,511,814$0$14,277,0662,086$56,192,028Ohio, Southern

263$4,419,609183$1,719,051$303,602$1,255,854272$4,615,328Oklahoma, Eastern

966$29,002,399663$15,556,169$564,086$2,201,461705$13,559,495Oklahoma, Northern

1,077$33,785,548554$11,236,901$551,279$5,802,243817$19,397,676Oklahoma, Western

2,488$21,691,442737$1,892,073$2,079,684$4,657,5861,285$14,334,217Oregon

Table 12G (Continued)

DebtsCurrentDebtsOtherPropertyDebtsAmount

PendingBalanceClosedDecreasesRecoveredCollectedOpenedOpenedDistrict

4,898$561,273,3061,897$6,722,801$97,423$124,322,0002,051$342,279,985Pennsylvania, Eastern

1,209$33,929,530873$2,063,432$79,257$28,097,4881,013$30,393,133Pennsylvania, Middle

1,913$46,474,024679$17,459,300$0$7,748,4901,032$18,499,809Pennsylvania, Western

1,600$137,258,206761$6,456,324$1,605,876$33,682,272874$48,700,530Puerto Rico

928$128,794,857239$490,974$0$6,506,317326$7,896,704Rhode Island

2,890$57,254,5411,575$6,504,309$679,339$17,564,2092,021$30,579,378South Carolina

920$23,937,532623$3,991,164$70,372$6,589,776733$15,698,922South Dakota

1,372$56,423,512628$3,111,130$0$2,848,111786$7,845,535Tennessee, Eastern

759$20,564,082442$4,513,375$0$16,700,717500$16,311,755Tennessee, Middle

1,998$35,324,691599$1,130,465$0$3,477,424683$8,810,679Tennessee, Western

2,034$84,666,632872$15,996,874$0$3,872,9161,096$26,739,226Texas, Eastern

5,741$523,060,2991,539$11,998,153$0$523,265,8203,233$556,631,541Texas, Northern

28,521$612,708,7002,326$1,461,063$9,536$7,008,80514,400$102,577,918Texas, Southern

12,754$314,193,7733,538$8,260,206$235,806$10,426,0165,666$44,440,818Texas, Western

1,845$35,166,364496$1,851,470$0$3,393,718914$21,039,164Utah

249$24,053,797256$1,398,687$1,167,611$5,894,384313$12,865,927Vermont

356$11,720,536189$40,984$0$594,085165$1,346,804Virgin Islands

5,681$176,232,7372,856$7,958,255$227,446$40,027,9564,053$93,114,112Virginia, Eastern

1,803$59,677,573871$2,986,557$35,066$4,324,925995$30,553,405Virginia, Western

750$11,021,970434$1,411,171$459,600$1,654,661532$4,741,403Washington, Eastern

2,388$258,728,547536$2,039,619$67,344$18,514,369778$59,881,367Washington, Western

630$32,326,368286$220,963$0$4,965,623324$26,973,961West Virginia, Northern

1,133$39,844,126416$5,097,697$111,047$13,266,662500$14,191,589West Virginia, Southern

1,699$54,877,685791$3,360,413$0$10,102,3191,078$18,208,825Wisconsin, Eastern

780$30,346,750518$7,599,676$0$6,959,957618$15,043,867Wisconsin, Western

720$15,318,112259$1,562,609$0$1,134,869467$3,502,198Wyoming

319,342$15,354,390,11388,925$669,450,816$36,514,589$2,342,333,504173,010$5,810,557,504All Districts

Data on this table excludes Asset Forfeitures.

Dollar amount of debts opened does not include adjustments.

Collected amount includes payments received by the United States Attorneys, the Courts, and other agencies.

Other decreases includes transfers, remands, presidential pardons, closed as uncollectible compromised, returned to agency, death of debtor, etc.

*Data for the Districts of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands are combined.

**Data provided by the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Table 12H

United States Attorney Debt Collection for Fiscal Year 1999

Criminal Debts in Suspense

Non-Federal RestitutionFederal RestitutionCriminal Debts Owed U.S.

BalanceNumberBalanceNumberBalanceNumberDistrict

$4,705,99198$2,997,93231$1,738,05330Alabama, Middle

$18,564,714275$3,474,21187$13,784,002442Alabama, Northern

$9,712,129113$956,19320$8,261,71285Alabama, Southern

$3,324,55464$6,568,39626$4,283,56680Alaska

$57,851,139195$8,990,63767$23,857,005826Arizona

$147,7918$104,7205$4,681,090104Arkansas, Eastern

$2,700,34264$56,6505$1,213,114497Arkansas, Western

$1,243,052,111612$146,904,994187$99,399,890531California, Central

$51,489,133448$16,766,883233$4,590,0741,599California, Eastern

$202,317,469264$47,248,71378$52,231,756329California, Northern

$848,94850$1,005,03140$2,759,300381California, Southern

$20,202,21270$12,826,82920$21,707,56298Colorado

$21,297,70761$10,112,68342$4,676,069403Connecticut

$10,613,529114$265,75720$142,277202Delaware

$58,297,151330$268,488,23277$9,112,942223District of Columbia

$326,600,812496$64,098,312184$17,869,398223Florida, Middle

$9,821,98682$37,606,70430$41,520,748318Florida, Northern

$464,687,027139$118,998,79381$136,445,532282Florida, Southern

$6,481,54373$825,02136$3,037,278158Georgia, Middle

$78,863,852160$15,509,048105$20,537,669393Georgia, Northern

$7,078,927111$7,396,40234$8,188,321650Georgia, Southern

$1,345,53331$384,93216$536,745190Guam*

$11,830,825264$1,651,78927$8,568,698192Hawaii

$895,11954$3,207,00913$677,353178Idaho

$43,331,624249$2,707,92128$2,987,377148Illinois, Central

$65,894,415313$36,072,48793$67,839,373493Illinois, Northern

$5,357,01345$1,384,14817$7,210,195446Illinois, Southern

$13,022,48798$1,879,24520$5,840,244157Indiana, Northern

$5,518,840123$1,694,48440$2,696,729574Indiana, Southern

$9,838,015169$3,597,07234$638,966184Iowa, Northern

$6,876,33296$2,227,78944$486,68457Iowa, Southern

$65,854,700291$16,044,62845$2,120,965173Kansas

$30,066,904229$1,914,03928$2,295,987153Kentucky, Eastern

Table 12H (Continued)

Non-Federal RestitutionFederal RestitutionCriminal Debts Owed U.S.

BalanceNumberBalanceNumberBalanceNumberDistrict

$8,826,10059$5,870,80528$2,865,82072Kentucky, Western

$29,659,088305$14,502,566126$15,247,119700Louisiana, Eastern

$18,739,49424$691,3379$6,834,49226Louisiana, Middle

$13,553,34854$24,091,09460$9,506,323120Louisiana, Western

$15,735,35678$787,17013$591,93793Maine

$30,631,32267$3,102,48839$10,090,699109Maryland

$30,769,23731$58,147,61412$9,082,923109Massachusetts

$91,092,711627$30,670,387125$28,448,8392,031Michigan, Eastern

$10,934,326245$2,210,05335$5,168,192589Michigan, Western

$54,649,682189$1,484,06632$2,619,085675Minnesota

$9,168,313145$2,983,53222$1,403,895352Mississippi, Northern

$2,433,53931$181,54411$2,535,140454Mississippi, Southern

$12,840,116127$520,66414$2,167,306158Missouri, Eastern

$58,843,602159$1,425,20212$6,936,066345Missouri, Western

$3,698,638144$362,41826$1,191,178305Montana

$13,889,70368$329,17722$422,381118Nebraska

$109,448,478814$1,257,20961$6,850,5661,008Nevada

$6,830,04226$1,513,0129$10,246,46223New Hampshire

$44,367,288163$18,558,93762$10,603,005561New Jersey

$3,896,096122$813,30012$5,959,973630New Mexico

$445,023,889125$28,447,66762$47,623,6051,277New York, Eastern

$15,932,35165$478,28918$2,591,87993New York, Northern

$1,742,837,507321$74,792,873168$237,845,3591,314New York, Southern

$27,353,579279$1,297,05831$2,679,847313New York, Western

North Carolina, Eastern**

$2,746,531109$234,7007$2,457,24372North Carolina, Middle

$00$118,6582$694,73448North Carolina, Western

$3,942,43989$4,549,51543$308,06566North Dakota

$00$00$00Northern Mariana Islands*

$56,358,683182$6,924,14838$7,546,073244Ohio, Northern

$11,411,693124$6,761,97180$5,600,297420Ohio, Southern

$407,14418$132,3556$253,57967Oklahoma, Eastern

$9,164,008152$917,06818$14,526,124204Oklahoma, Northern

$12,139,511175$8,034,21764$6,040,966333Oklahoma, Western

$11,927,976282$1,044,49533$1,353,6491,202Oregon

Table 12H (Continued)

Non-Federal RestitutionFederal RestitutionCriminal Debts Owed U.S.

BalanceNumberBalanceNumberBalanceNumberDistrict

$109,509,390176$34,049,524186$246,048,7001,070Pennsylvania, Eastern

$13,856,944175$3,251,22379$1,635,323594Pennsylvania, Middle

$447,0644$570,15716$8,697,78767Pennsylvania, Western

$3,771,9808$1,073,3216$107,992,83293Puerto Rico

$29,257,56619$5,728,9896$41,137,151240Rhode Island

$5,256,91990$2,753,11029$8,771,034199South Carolina

$12,165,314200$2,871,62647$1,057,561205South Dakota

$24,732,56751$4,484,74347$1,719,22666Tennessee, Eastern

$6,495,10430$705,6129$4,036,56180Tennessee, Middle

$13,354,902218$5,434,01956$4,287,365754Tennessee, Western

$44,096,878295$7,955,22876$6,549,174562Texas, Eastern

$24,030,69059$178,224,88880$20,895,6372,491Texas, Northern

$50,626,277233$117,587,455121$166,219,288805Texas, Southern

$72,442,763229$66,444,65492$27,293,6162,155Texas, Western

$12,595,36343$797,80720$852,626205Utah

$19,422,56956$1,450,32210$1,904,576184Vermont

$1,195,37213$152,6053$155,57561Virgin Islands

$36,263,803135$11,666,67439$5,018,027863Virginia, Eastern

$15,116,815109$2,132,36031$14,313,221425Virginia, Western

$1,693,96450$615,35315$826,04998Washington, Eastern

$127,386,427213$17,789,86551$23,400,719126Washington, Western

$4,700,86739$21,400,0968$4,118,60176West Virginia, Northern

$26,889,802165$2,487,46923$3,884,451733West Virginia, Southern

$25,982,556268$520,63544$6,609,259437Wisconsin, Eastern

$14,118,59895$1,227,25713$624,14318Wisconsin, Western

$6,937,76825$522,4744$287,90647Wyoming

$6,470,090,92114,186$1,639,100,7334,224$1,758,565,90637,584All Districts

*Data for the Districts of Guam and Northern Mariana Islands are combined.

**Data is not available for North Carolina, Eastern.

Table 13

United States Attorneys' Court-Related Work Hours

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

SpecialGrandDistrictDistrict

WitnessDepositions,MagistrateBankruptcyCourtStateJuryAppellateCourtCourt

TotalPreparationHearingsCourtCourtTravelCourtTotalCourtCivilCriminalDistrict

3,901883966283614131060131751,262Alabama, Middle

9,3922,8752769525651,63243497512482,253Alabama, Northern

3,05328972439128762437912631,571Alabama, Southern

3,229846221395855211951833960Alaska

15,4021,9839643,8081011,699175608832105,771Arizona

3,57346739314151167449830661,837Arkansas, Eastern

2,615388122195951,11111911058444Arkansas, Western

51,59614,9523,9522,7381,0075,8924092,8779803,32315,466California, Central

6,4191,096540700668821400672162,451California, Eastern

11,3661,3363191,7576586821879407595,322California, Northern

41,9544,3321,7943,045291,0122781,79696639128,311California, Southern

4,9644393841,0822021433359365241,873Colorado

7,05980625740414894132863794813,048Connecticut

2,339546150179177212461930103418Delaware

166,516155,9099531,0331619008703691,3185,858District of Columbia

24,8265,5469534,0812343,517231,2261524378,657Florida, Middle

6,7161,011197493431,248449458783,090Florida, Northern

44,98210,4541,2455,078754,1281692,67312747220,561Florida, Southern

5,0841,2351402804141,2480134251291,479Georgia, Middle

12,6122,0714002,741292,121691,136632683,714Georgia, Northern

4,2486191204434421,227028532761,004Georgia, Southern

1,332362103081391651,050Guam

4,3595192171,12543563438323751,623Hawaii

3,9958831553748887212308162741,013Idaho

5,8401,57475539378140440911522,118Illinois, Central

30,77210,3991,6161,6171101,8151422,8844472,0599,683Illinois, Northern

5,5061,095232364631,0021925243982,338Illinois, Southern

6,035746818001617611334739193,068Indiana, Northern

4,32396511933778770914327851,790Indiana, Southern

2,7104563826582454429425211,071Iowa, Northern

3,038853053445266252627371,486Iowa, Southern

4,38358962560289631824232532,475Kansas

5,17356516845971,40219384721171,980Kentucky, Eastern

Table 13 (Continued)

SpecialGrandDistrictDistrict

WitnessDepositions,MagistrateBankruptcyCourtStateJuryAppellateCourtCourt

TotalPreparationHearingsCourtCourtTravelCourtTotalCourtCivilCriminalDistrict

4,8341,090122386641,3743728463591,355Kentucky, Western

4,7125501191,110241883156012702,048Louisiana Eastern

1,7421062922313176114331730686Louisiana, Middle

5,3349101464162501,70610260281881,420Louisiana, Western

2,5183445632779282123474171,050Maine

11,0882,2803511,50820788229061205634,530Maryland

10,8862,12043995429693341,215757494,578Massachusetts

14,8422,7615601,999631,178281,1472163986,492Michigan, Eastern

6,5021,3272348951421,5347493371711,662Michigan, Western

5,9739953721,0211069640344992852,111Minnesota

6,1221,74390748731,609357310631,210Mississippi, Northern

7,4192,6182225943281,09230391222421,880Mississippi, Southern

7,2032,1132851,30327253325851542372,214Missouri, Eastern

7,6342,0032531,340751,04437547821432,110Missouri, Western

3,830148108702187961626856961,622Montana

5,1728991148783099632212641351,812Nebraska

6,5157762381,306193910640362302,879Nevada

1,69733116221337691951422780New Hampshire

19,7194,6484681,319353,117361,534804418,041New Jersey

9,2037613331,9492511,648543501032393,515New Mexico

18,4522,9561,1491,3041541,44661,0112729189,236New York, Eastern

6,8289481719451391,19615698381292,549New York, Northern

44,96014,2241,6874,0844832,622302,4856071,66817,070New York, Southern

7,7911,8231491,736383664596633982,618New York, Western

5,855771140228202,2012266321342,061North Carolina, Eastern

3,12454214263719942132331,856North Carolina, Middle

4,741609561,10651975914565451,680North Carolina, Western

2,88739290367261,12811521412705North Dakota

00000000000Northern Mariana Islands

10,1181,1813057132732,15832454485054,449Ohio, Northern

5,5261,14732056111981105485793652,264Ohio, Southern

1,09214917111308741091888479Oklahoma, Eastern

3,2356541143874217222327151361,366Oklahoma, Northern

4,2857299469026704304301362,202Oklahoma, Western

7,1871,7753331,283231,05796681012301,708Oregon

Table 13 (Continued)

SpecialGrandDistrictDistrict

WitnessDepositions,MagistrateBankruptcyCourtStateJuryAppellateCourtCourt

TotalPreparationHearingsCourtCourtTravelCourtTotalCourtCivilCriminalDistrict

8,4111,6045068124836531,022653283,658Pennsylvania, Eastern

5,5841,0311853061211,2982385321092,115Pennsylvania, Middle

3,70475013434611538633376202481,296Pennsylvania, Western

6,7511,036219649355872609302343,809Puerto Rico

1,571125103421920111973844765Rhode Island

10,6831,7455971,753961,70395511414573,631South Carolina

5,2841,099150695411,2741034528101,632South Dakota

8,8952,2723401,4243071,9098437901431,965Tennessee, Eastern

4,5721,21422258946276726240621,854Tennessee, Middle

5,5372472567152531635551751372,883Tennessee, Western

11,6831,6931381,4112753,02775954516733,746Texas, Eastern

15,1294,3378442,3091861,52934697503954,748Texas, Northern

21,7782,5574074,765270876321,1034737011,351Texas, Southern

39,78212,1651,5647,1332145,080272,3136120911,016Texas, Western

6,7156862091,913138540335672082,430Utah

3,2886868796113924728629291,031Vermont

2,5563981963615921072164546982Virgin Islands

17,1064,6071,1781,8001211,488281,2741008505,660Virginia, Eastern

7,0421,787605741821,903853038491,911Virginia, Western

5,4461,1013496383508394229551421,739Washington, Eastern

10,3712,5977171,9452491,29412921652762,295Washington, Western

3,67431829289761,436726211651,181West Virginia, Northern

3,6174941372141517741041401191,304West Virginia, Southern

3,80781475527524051028834351,567Wisconsin, Eastern

1,8271635518453405132625068574Wisconsin, Western

4,20692997316401,115057520801,034Wyoming

997,357328,87333,536103,07411,983100,8963,98257,0418,09826,414323,460 All Districts

District of Columbia data does not include District of Columbia Superior Court time.

Table 14

Criminal Matters Pending Aged By Date Received

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

2224310214034110Alabama, Middle

5592314297215092179Alabama, Northern

232425174946109Alabama, Southern

18865913363089Alaska

1,90516171120214367257715Arizona

328177356871139Arkansas, Eastern

13623315462443Arkansas, Western

3,261787213311422634372522California, Central

9101003448120188103317California, Eastern

1,9572854591178443397518California, Northern

1,1622505563128198135333California, Southern

62198153456127100191Colorado

53562234174121102112Connecticut

1396249383446Delaware

57628202156118113220District of Columbia

1,7695241109190439387551Florida, Middle

36818715248294128Florida, Northern

1,86127297140229427269427Florida, Southern

387121015396597149Georgia, Middle

879973463107184142252Georgia, Northern

349565297876150Georgia, Southern

89611010261422Guam

1,06430111863512494152Hawaii

38812720258791146Idaho

290118644755195Illinois, Central

2,091338140169262404301477Illinois, Northern

239104122584896Illinois, Southern

4442713275811089120Indiana, Northern

3802011204910270108Indiana, Southern

191841137344255Iowa, Northern

1966101120582863Iowa, Southern

261141818586399Kansas

84073282973280420Kentucky, Eastern

Table 14 (Continued)

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

39210719409091135Kentucky, Western

4833213316713569136Louisiana, Eastern

227125928514874Louisiana, Middle

4331110253369109176Louisiana, Western

228271324454592Maine

1,230112242790282254441Maryland

788104426199150148184Massachusetts

2,05212813696215522455500Michigan, Eastern

39579133510679146Michigan, Western

393191518447966152Minnesota

243681122585088Mississippi, Northern

308599261036195Mississippi, Southern

933292249123239163308Missouri, Eastern

67028183882195109200Missouri, Western

21836619435487Montana

466149276813287129Nebraska

81032172998201148285Nevada

1791041617344553New Hampshire

1,77028283132187355287444New Jersey

85647202958150140412New Mexico

2,306415118177300512363421New York, Eastern

59531122454152136186New York, Northern

3,199505246378425636402607New York, Southern

72745294292159137223New York, Western

6339182947155104271North Carolina, Eastern

1631338363775North Carolina, Middle

47485165215197145North Carolina, Western

17322615334471North Dakota

76623938810Northern Mariana Islands

882331753101181196301Ohio, Northern

7232972571189141261Ohio, Southern

161411119344151Oklahoma, Eastern

24656610578280Oklahoma, Northern

426268184611787124Oklahoma, Western

53822192458106107202Oregon

Table 14 (Continued)

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

1,730168106112275422287360Pennsylvania, Eastern

57916163361128121204Pennsylvania, Middle

449152283889127150Pennsylvania, Western

361261219429848116Puerto Rico

13364117282453Rhode Island

82121224494172161307South Carolina

385020957104213South Dakota

579571966165130187Tennessee, Eastern

254771126725081Tennessee, Middle

349261321238254130Tennessee, Western

64540244261159119200Texas, Eastern

1,274984296161313201363Texas, Northern

1,4691033864125302255582Texas, Southern

1,8513697274152299242643Texas, Western

67140334589141132191Utah

13773414431947Vermont

122521019352031Virgin Islands

3,452467179213494739541819Virginia, Eastern

395181643397572132Virginia, Western

340454235872174Washington, Eastern

886602457123156175291Washington, Western

238211228445893West Virginia, Northern

350539319678128West Virginia, Southern

52036213068110120135Wisconsin, Eastern

252831321615591Wisconsin, Western

15331811343363Wyoming

67,6086,3512,5353,9578,04914,68011,93420,102All Districts

Pending matter data includes 7,062 fugitive matters, nine matters where the defendant is in a mental institution, 633 matters where the defendant is in a pretrial diversion program, and 629 matters where the defendant is unknown.

Table 15

Criminal Cases Pending Aged By Date Received

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

8918476142713Alabama, Middle

2632361623455298Alabama, Northern

171165714332967Alabama, Southern

1287116211874Alaska

1,9253235965116299335728Arizona

19613923693952Arkansas, Eastern

913113112547Arkansas, Western

2,189607100150243414296379California, Central

75171215290142103272California, Eastern

1,173320547474195228228California, Northern

2,275718557285145226974California, Southern

471107294149747299Colorado

30466161639575852Connecticut

751046222616Delaware

58878173878118110149District of Columbia

1,2572396565108247226307Florida, Middle

342118111318456275Florida, Northern

3,3471,673144137201348294550Florida, Southern

2582231628796743Georgia, Middle

689111233171140116197Georgia, Northern

123671214122547Georgia, Southern

144136917244035Guam

5962813316424827887Hawaii

9475911231623Idaho

308581320838198Illinois, Central

920354515190120128126Illinois, Northern

2352873182651102Illinois, Southern

263206718647771Indiana, Northern

117122125212342Indiana, Southern

215142825474673Iowa, Northern

2027389346081Iowa, Southern

31336812234557132Kansas

3511789339785102Kentucky, Eastern

Table 15 (Continued)

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

174122914475139Kentucky, Western

34272132025576293Louisiana, Eastern

1304258323445Louisiana, Middle

1761512018423446Louisiana, Western

12417134222948Maine

47944112735105115142Maryland

5581183437861508350Massachusetts

9091895874127189114158Michigan, Eastern

21528111118394464Michigan, Western

2794961122546077Minnesota

75504651144Mississippi, Northern

2182271014434478Mississippi, Southern

3542385144879177Missouri, Eastern

33922317238091103Missouri, Western

21983522396280Montana

46035101145114107138Nebraska

877123336396202175185Nevada

16217889413940New Hampshire

809122434692193139174New Jersey

1,102175395173170241353New Mexico

1,958656136154188305259260New York, Eastern

53210528243878104155New York, Northern

3,5891,332211274353622407390New York, Southern

415573032351028178New York, Western

27135101828556857North Carolina, Eastern

19936624313297North Carolina, Middle

4843182647105131136North Carolina, Western

863235141940North Dakota

35101410613Northern Mariana Islands

318381611235672102Ohio, Northern

30940122931766160Ohio, Southern

52612812914Oklahoma, Eastern

176375720332549Oklahoma, Northern

1741681322253753Oklahoma, Western

737111222753145149230Oregon

Table 15 (Continued)

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

1,0022004947110210167219Pennsylvania, Eastern

30630121227687483Pennsylvania, Middle

25226101226626848Pennsylvania, Western

427371822455387165Puerto Rico

10126316121934Rhode Island

69357301961158164204South Carolina

22751874156109South Dakota

27813811196361103Tennessee, Eastern

2131771133584641Tennessee, Middle

341291520344770126Tennessee, Western

36423910328181128Texas, Eastern

86924537567894122237Texas, Northern

2,84582896981423013271,053Texas, Southern

2,964289571102013915191,397Texas, Western

5203311243162128231Utah

1574210817213227Vermont

1741451013313863Virgin Islands

780115302974143159230Virginia, Eastern

32016131333787988Virginia, Western

2521610158288095Washington, Eastern

511992731517791135Washington, Western

1371731016301942West Virginia, Northern

15783412173479West Virginia, Southern

1772731320312954Wisconsin, Eastern

69922492221Wisconsin, Western

1208252232060Wyoming

52,05510,8692,1222,7974,3208,7268,84214,379All Districts

Pending caseload data includes 13,628 fugitive cases, 60 cases where the defendant is in a mental institution, and 272 cases where the defendant is in a pretrial diversion program.

Table 16

Civil Matters Pending Aged By Date Received

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

901002102453Alabama, Middle

50064512518Alabama, Northern

59020410934Alabama, Southern

10501010282442Alaska

5665111836158118220Arizona

95013129268Arkansas, Eastern

121100082389Arkansas, Western

1,17710872156173299163206California, Central

318241821306411051California, Eastern

6071073978212103158California, Northern

2051511235483757California, Southern

197211021535258Colorado

2712413187063101Connecticut

6001210111422Delaware

2811110916905887District of Columbia

1,119216312961249267329Florida, Middle

19211244823113Florida, Northern

1,09826212057142156134227Florida, Southern

51000181977Georgia, Middle

201135952344147Georgia, Northern

8602019211232Georgia, Southern

3211121467Guam

9136311231926Hawaii

692104181628Idaho

50103122815Illinois, Central

449197237692107125Illinois, Northern

10712311143244Illinois, Southern

9431010262232Indiana, Northern

171531029433645Indiana, Southern

4401185326Iowa, Northern

63002371185Iowa, Southern

6300427743Kansas

20712931424181Kentucky, Eastern

Table 16 (Continued)

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

940011146828Kentucky, Western

801015371422Louisiana, Eastern

11401710262545Louisiana, Middle

990028351440Louisiana, Western

34000310156Maine

4751162716261217Maryland

2546112262494064Massachusetts

2826152340525096Michigan, Eastern

47282131818093158Michigan, Western

144122310283446Minnesota

881328171344Mississippi, Northern

9403512411122Mississippi, Southern

1561561120462533Missouri, Eastern

205481223455954Missouri, Western

680234161627Montana

1210166382743Nebraska

8424011301324Nevada

39140131146New Hampshire

5004924641019641125New Jersey

8611314211927New Mexico

5868050319914568113New York, Eastern

220646214629108New York, Northern

667652165105158108145New York, Southern

2487510136346104New York, Western

1203349372638North Carolina, Eastern

53032510726North Carolina, Middle

14006610213661North Carolina, Western

63001171143North Dakota

60200400Northern Mariana Islands

23233811409473Ohio, Northern

19510152214474344Ohio, Southern

630005251914Oklahoma, Eastern

4400224927Oklahoma, Northern

92104681558Oklahoma, Western

226412030486756Oregon

Table 16 (Continued)

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

8443095862688672189Pennsylvania, Eastern

548218284185934934Pennsylvania, Middle

299551045697194Pennsylvania, Western

2526213246241104Puerto Rico

905847142131Rhode Island

57991422659759313South Carolina

690044252016South Dakota

611131710524Tennessee, Eastern

1551219423367Tennessee, Middle

693121492020Tennessee, Western

45001481418Texas, Eastern

20832428514080Texas, Northern

3309913218492102Texas, Southern

381341518288589112Texas, Western

11411219283132Utah

641025111728Vermont

3621141693Virgin Islands

30581014497446104Virginia, Eastern

3512231269Virginia, Western

68056718923Washington, Eastern

19843927453179Washington, Western

2510026412West Virginia, Northern

6903012191421West Virginia, Southern

751126231428Wisconsin, Eastern

571007101227Wisconsin, Western

37013581010Wyoming

19,8461,2137771,2102,3704,5803,5836,113All Districts

Table 17

Civil Cases Pending Aged By Date Received

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

8051331983197197293Alabama, Middle

946161122101192213391Alabama, Northern

376417429792133Alabama, Southern

21697927623468Alaska

667432752146152116131Arizona

2,913466197335576442276621Arkansas, Eastern

27300251671179Arkansas, Western

5,2295282143578611,3578861,026California, Central

1,227783159173270335281California, Eastern

1,252333371137351238389California, Northern

9553724101133194174292California, Southern

1,109534283157267260247Colorado

2,4854681383563738382292Connecticut

37312647506874107Delaware

1,455832853139477296379District of Columbia

3,03175401082467507071,105Florida, Middle

58115132257121111242Florida, Northern

3,943470341328677876600651Florida, Southern

69233182974138200200Georgia, Middle

2,15180107167433665277422Georgia, Northern

4336416314178257Georgia, Southern

45201109149Guam

39381416379497127Hawaii

185137823442862Idaho

3453318335594139Illinois, Central

3,6696054993664854648756Illinois, Northern

3195520185478139Illinois, Southern

38511210407468180Indiana, Northern

1,1202482261232420353Indiana, Southern

299255374873129Iowa, Northern

284035233673144Iowa, Southern

780362063156169363Kansas

1,378463369149208355518Kentucky, Eastern

Table 17 (Continued)

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

84011102267182202346Kentucky, Western

422131014357990181Louisiana, Eastern

16715698563142Louisiana, Middle

497761227129120196Louisiana, Western

2946122033877462Maine

1,184233487182298212348Maryland

698311736101176131206Massachusetts

1,035322849154233235304Michigan, Eastern

53316133712115182113Michigan, Western

517543235106127208Minnesota

232131823474199Mississippi, Northern

45514101644122108141Mississippi, Southern

8521278758154158122146Missouri, Eastern

66415212681127163231Missouri, Western

236911821485782Montana

2811091032596992Nebraska

452186306811281137Nevada

1564217184480New Hampshire

9,8451,4841,1651,4032,0301,948845970New Jersey

615961256138168226New Mexico

7,5445172673751,8402,2111,0731,261New York, Eastern

1,414583488178380293383New York, Northern

5,1241,029348517841983668738New York, Southern

1,6247276157264427277351New York, Western

50932446119105230North Carolina, Eastern

341545166996146North Carolina, Middle

318191617543858116North Carolina, Western

1302068163068North Dakota

130115411Northern Mariana Islands

2,751199107191326548556824Ohio, Northern

2,779507175230285624408550Ohio, Southern

2447611262950115Oklahoma, Eastern

4163792477106190Oklahoma, Northern

659641356140156284Oklahoma, Western

5271618174482149201Oregon

Table 17 (Continued)

Five orFour toThree toTwo toOne toSix MonthsLess Than

TotalMore YearsFive YearsFour YearsThree YearsTwo Yearsto One YearSix MonthsDistrict

2,0222256682216615461357Pennsylvania, Eastern

94936549696211193263Pennsylvania, Middle

818381335150157161264Pennsylvania, Western

1,254343499280309224274Puerto Rico

15662833522431Rhode Island

2,242905397197624525656South Carolina

21212722545967South Dakota

882231224140192196295Tennessee, Eastern

384111423318874143Tennessee, Middle

5789517359891323Tennessee, Western

85849282594176130356Texas, Eastern

1,37210262173303280542Texas, Northern

1,732986185164362368594Texas, Southern

2,05076103250382466371402Texas, Western

33336162748706175Utah

21055620474978Vermont

1681381430512824Virgin Islands

980312358128145166429Virginia, Eastern

686134935150170305Virginia, Western

1737046263991Washington, Eastern

1,00337153567158185506Washington, Western

226125194351105West Virginia, Northern

49969531128126194West Virginia, Southern

8803111567215233336Wisconsin, Eastern

45021315858193161Wisconsin, Western

13362328312340Wyoming

105,9327,9824,4637,19415,73824,20819,14327,204All Districts

Table 18

Criminal Matters Declined -- Immediate and Later Declinations by Reason

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

Totals

Criminal

All Other

Crime

Collar

White

Crime

Violent

Theft

Offenses

Indian

Other

Crime

Organized

Corruption

Official

Drugs

Non-OCDETF

Drugs

OCDETF

Offenses

Management

Labor

Theft

Interstate

Offenses

Security

Internal

Immigration

Offenses

Regulatory

Government

Prosecutions

Civil Rights

Crimes

Assimilated

Declination Reason

2,4963566385745336241081922111204201502736No Federal Offense Committed

4,9947501,3761,010167224915239486204586347435611Lack of Criminal Intent

5,6681,0141,3541,22216951283884713111695735079218

Authority or on Other Charge

Suspect Prosecuted by Other

703652242191611043700110127862No Known Suspect

5349510912987284311100823061

Sentence, Deceased or Deported

Suspect a Fugitive, Serving

31678942327404271340042918

Being Made

Suspect Cooperating or Restitution

2,1113337083172181049233115701501492630Other Disciplinary Alternatives

3,3112981,571621568221623157991204167116Office Policy

59439635170092202006123811DOJ/Court Policy

1,669158649243445172412341518179213416Lack of Resources

92013818230423821370103603638779

Problems

Jurisdiction, Venue, or Witness

6,2507521,5871,25120053281936741292768611241868922Weak or Insufficient Evidence

72612715486224320832265029326650

Problems

Statute of Limitations or Staleness

2,436322659557743126724342111921262156212Agency Request

24237198163001230001347162Juvenile Suspect

2,31239184538110923440145309101452271519Minimal Federal Interest

38953801621420416311043382All Other Reasons

35,6715,00610,3127,2311,2132501957923,192600135288281,0472,7682,206205 Totals

Table 19

Criminal Matters Declined -- Immediate and Later Declinations by Agency

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

AllAllImmigration &FederalDrug

OtherSecretPostalOtherNaturalizationBureau ofEnforcement

TotalsAgenciesServiceServiceJusticeServiceInvestigationAdministrationDeclination Reason

2,496665957645301,474111No federal offense committed

4,9941,435611171130692,334244Lack of criminal intent

73022159252226276101Suspect to be prosecuted on other charge

4,9381,114721280282702,107364Suspect to be prosecuted by other authority

18451321187705Suspect serving sentence

7039640331315119No known suspect

761915436254Suspect a fugitive

1836577518414Suspect deceased

91613106911Suspect deported

1577912510591Restitution being made

2,1118761561585615769414Other disciplinary alternatives

2,31271226512252581,02380Minimal federal interest

27386646671022Offender's age, health

15976234483410Suspect's cooperation

24240961314844Juvenile suspect

5572091926132421947Staleness

4301222310151823111Jurisdiction or venue problems

6,2501,7485132451981122,997437Weak or insufficient evidence

490150221062024735Witness problems

943410621374Petite policy

1,66943011456297786598Lack of resources

594919316945214Department policy

3,3111,01319876542551,611104Office policy

1696343310833Statute of limitations

2,43679626117139135907127

Agency request

228220091

All other reasons

35,67110,2053,3841,5021,0151,18416,5361,845 Totals

Table 20

Asset Forfeiture Actions Handled By United States Attorneys

Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 1999

Asset Forfeiture

Proceeds- - - Estimated Recoveries - - -- - - Civil Cases - - -- - - Criminal Property Records - - -- - - Criminal Cases - - -

Applied toRetained forCase/MatterJudgment

Restitution*Official UseCashAppraised ValuePendingFiledFor U.S.PendingFiledPendingFiledDistrict

$0$9,000$450,381$3,645,86461621043032Alabama, Middle

$0$0$2,425,170$2,300,156231701524054Alabama, Northern

$0$0$286,686$227,486672180110Alabama, Southern

$0$0$1,450,378$237,1905610502Alaska

$0$51,950$4,883,657$25,524,597542830227896733Arizona

$0$0$704,515$99,2001643030Arkansas, Eastern

$0$0$16,145$461,3396700000Arkansas, Western

$0$150,089$40,519,151$60,252,735161124011010497California, Central

$0$12,500$1,569,381$7,926,918271821174533518California, Eastern

$0$0$1,506,265$53,871,479391600000California, Northern

$0$0$4,745,601$24,475,5727868392901147545California, Southern

$0$0$674,914$53,845,47937183837325Colorado

$0$0$418,500$29,957,218151291111Connecticut

$0$0$0$638,7702003030Delaware

$0$358,375$1,697,235$4,225,56611102173682014District of Columbia

$0$4,255$17,284,353$273,157,33795799462315412307Florida, Middle

$28,378$30,620$4,384,283$20,799,26756592283831813Florida, Northern

$184,561$146,051$242,909,453$257,900,13113397227680309219179Florida, Southern

$0$14,640$2,066,685$1,526,4092826031211210Georgia, Middle

$0$162,900$2,335,866$8,481,97059661697568948Georgia, Northern

$0$5,000$1,160,634$2,906,694822024864Georgia, Southern

$0$0$411,553$021117141Guam

$0$1,952$1,669,884$6,280,659139113117104Hawaii

$0$0$602,375$268,675110161962Idaho

$0$46,775$394,304$299,8563400000Illinois, Central

$0$348,609$12,113,632$6,560,964362683551139049Illinois, Northern

$0$78,150$724,229$558,782151516181676Illinois, Southern

$0$0$28,000$1,626,49957020020Indiana, Northern

$0$0$739,089$5,806,709241308020Indiana, Southern

$0$0$293,328$817,831322638321916Iowa, Northern

$0$0$4,194,723$401,48564512181Iowa, Southern

$407,332$28,873$265,121$3,407,88820140111188Kansas

$0$7,881$1,455,857$6,823,8611061962491915Kentucky, Eastern

Table 20 (Continued)

Asset Forfeiture

Proceeds- - - Estimated Recoveries - - -- - - Civil Cases - - -- - - Criminal Property Records - - -- - - Criminal Cases - - -

Applied toRetained forCase/MatterJudgment

Restitution*Official UseCashAppraised ValuePendingFiledFor U.S.PendingFiledPendingFiledDistrict

$10,202$236,800$498,589$913,081971037261713Kentucky, Western

$0$0$9,685,194$17,827,861213115992620Louisiana, Eastern

$0$0$778,843$541,5071311212Louisiana, Middle

$0$2,000$96,194$63,3803632724117Louisiana, Western

$0$22,059$100,609$22,0001042413Maine

$0$0$935,708$5,170,950714621317910Maryland

$0$46,800$2,421,200$6,778,7153330555551226429Massachusetts

$0$17,725$1,477,211$11,722,0674238111419154Michigan, Eastern

$0$11,091$1,824,107$374,0855211161374Michigan, Western

$407,710$0$1,185,926$1,157,627151623771083243Minnesota

$0$0$387,041$5,117,768321600000Mississippi, Northern

$0$114,155$579,802$2,243,239332438951283749Mississippi, Southern

$825$44,180$1,790,847$1,843,58039382683631510Missouri, Eastern

$0$17,625$1,441,724$14,264,577121029769278Missouri, Western

$0$1,520$911,856$49,965321056641515Montana

$0$0$225,471$657,496111120000Nebraska

$140,636$362,741$892,104$1,400,0981915662541554330Nevada

$0$0$26,715$261,5904302313105New Hampshire

$0$35,000$6,682,936$27,489,534474301181161New Jersey

$0$1,885$754,115$6,381,58323130380110New Mexico

$0$0$40,811,228$234,645,80816312616767New York, Eastern

$0$1,645,124$11,562,948$656,7871624304861856235New York, Northern

$20,833,361$0$16,302,466$426,269,6397228013522465New York, Southern

$0$0$732,834$10,624,7174229128934205New York, Western

$0$0$4,359,030$349,19714202031835North Carolina, Eastern

$0$0$1,164,362$4,280,476383403232North Carolina, Middle

$644,771$0$2,793,731$20,433,3335505519147North Carolina, Western

$0$0$0$00004010North Dakota

$0$0$0$35,0001001010Northern Mariana Islands

$0$91,835$1,791,438$2,308,229161651144761918Ohio, Northern

$0$42,775$4,851,797$4,013,31326282197552515Ohio, Southern

$0$0$97,292$211,0004209933Oklahoma, Eastern

$9,596$85,950$612,024$2,542,13214703944913Oklahoma, Northern

$0$5,060$1,516,784$209,133120163347Oklahoma, Western

$265,086$105,625$5,030,548$1,270,8561420127449269Oregon

Table 20 (Continued)

Asset Forfeiture

Proceeds- - - Estimated Recoveries - - -- - - Civil Cases - - -- - - Criminal Property Records - - -- - - Criminal Cases - - -

Applied toRetained forCase/MatterJudgment

Restitution*Official UseCashAppraised ValuePendingFiledFor U.S.PendingFiledPendingFiledDistrict

$0$58,650$2,710,029$6,347,101553274156424959Pennsylvania, Eastern

$0$0$2,181,556$5,305,919221002020Pennsylvania, Middle

$90,318$0$6,733,934$7,939,7005225175126148Pennsylvania, Western

$0$0$5,277,640$19,263,618432640119532613Puerto Rico

$0$58,675$827,788$6,96035016010Rhode Island

$118,160$0$155,394$48,611,68132120403749820South Carolina

$0$0$80,000$1,8502484733South Dakota

$0$52,100$1,735,493$3,043,6771854387442619Tennessee, Eastern

$0$0$3,411,757$21,418,1092627414686Tennessee, Middle

$0$0$18,630$1,433,7172412731113Tennessee, Western

$4,200$131,570$629,268$1,106,050111638110591721Texas, Eastern

$22,515$48,233$7,261,013$3,101,3801525415643Texas, Northern

$0$2,050$3,999,449$37,378,5017062510110319Texas, Southern

$0$116,967$2,510,711$8,105,3153650121421273023Texas, Western

$0$513,025$934,634$3,768,1861171411965Utah

$375,773$0$327,740$1,503,90978336281010Vermont

$0$0$194,025$459,12310800000Virgin Islands

$1,691,494$226,717$3,487,468$513,41511171991373363469Virginia, Eastern

$0$0$2,027,290$844,37810143835561321Virginia, Western

$0$2,500$566,217$2,243,4327704332Washington, Eastern

$11,360,366$39,630$2,043,391$10,985,8093724241749343Washington, Western

$0$64,725$273,385$232,41966326955West Virginia, Northern

$0$142,750$848,523$452,81498477592113West Virginia, Southern

$28,624$0$705,006$1,178,916111422130641916Wisconsin, Eastern

$2,197,422$47,050$871,279$358,53211113212177Wisconsin, Western

$0$0$1,400,000$344,72834111831Wyoming

$38,821,330$5,852,212$529,915,640$1,863,394,1482,4161,9541,4438,2633,9772,4991,517All Districts

Estimated cash recoveries includes appraised values.

Estimated cash recoveries retained for official use includes appraised values

Dollar amounts displayed for Asset Forfeiture proceeds applied to restitution do not constitute asset forfeitures collected. They represent amounts applied to restitutions from asset forfeiture cases.

The reason that so few districts reported Asset Forfeiture proceeds applied to restitution during Fiscal Year 1998 is that the restitution policy was implemented at the end of the fiscal year.