U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nebraska issued the following announcement on Feb. 15.
United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that the District of Nebraska collected $3,978,627.98 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2018. Of this amount, $1,836,812.43 was collected in criminal actions and $2,141,815.55 was collected in civil actions.
Additionally, The District of Nebraska worked with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect an additional $39,694.06 in cases pursued jointly by these offices. Of this amount, $8,094.06 was collected in criminal actions and $31,600.00 was collected in civil actions.
As a whole, the Justice Department collected nearly $15 billion in civil and criminal actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018. The $14,839,821,650 in collections in FY 2018 represents nearly seven times the appropriated $2.13 billion ($2,136,750,000) budget for the 94 U.S. Attorneys’ offices.
“Our criminal, civil and financial litigation units work tirelessly and are unheralded in their work to ensure civil and criminal debts owed to the United States and criminal debts owed to federal crime victims are collected,” said U.S. Attorney Joe Kelly.
“The men and women of the U.S. Attorneys’ offices across the country work diligently, day in and day out, to see that the citizens of our nation receive justice. The money that we are able to recover for victims and this country as a whole is a direct result of their hard work,” Director James A. Crowell, IV, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.
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