U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine issued the following announcement on Feb. 14.
United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine (USAO-ME) collected $3,916,132 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. Of this amount, $1,136,220 was collected in criminal actions and $2,779,912 was collected in civil actions.
Additionally, the USAO-ME worked with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect an additional $223,303 in cases pursued jointly by these offices. Of this amount, $6,480 was collected in criminal actions and $216,823 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 September 30, 2018. The $14,839,821,650 in collections in FY 2018 is nearly seven times the appropriated $2.13 billion ($2,136,750,000) budget for the 94 U.S. Attorneys’ offices.
“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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