U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice is a federal department that prosecutes federal crimes and represents the United States in court. Its components include the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the United States Marshals Service. Todd Blanche was sworn in as Attorney General on August 10, 2026.
Leadership
Todd Blanche, Attorney General. Todd Blanche is the 88th United States attorney general. He served as acting attorney general from April 2026 until the Senate confirmed him in August.
Key facts
WYDE coverage of U.S. Department of Justice
WYDE Newsroom has published 42 articles about U.S. Department of Justice, from Feb 28, 2026 to Oct 24, 2026. U.S. Department of Justice is the regulator in 37 stories and the subject of 5 stories. The most recent is Trump and Vance Launch $25M Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program With Planned $10,000 Check for Nick Shirley.
Trump and Vance Launch $25M Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program With Planned $10,000 Check for Nick Shirley
The Justice Department will administer the program. The White House says tipsters can receive up to $30,000, while Trump described a 1% commission.
Oct 24, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story
Crypto & DeFiCrypto Godfather Adam Iza Gets 78 Months for a $37 Million Meta Fraud and Deputy Scheme
Adam Iza, who styled himself The Godfather, was sentenced to 78 months and ordered to pay $23.4 million in restitution for defrauding Meta of more than $37 million and hiring off-duty Los Angeles sheriff's deputies.
Oct 6, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator
WYDE Weekly$1 Million Clipping Fund for Creators Who End Hunger
WYDE Weekly: a new $1 million clipping fund pays creators to end hunger, plus Ken Griffin's record $3 billion gift, three record health-system donations, and the regulators chasing crypto.
Oct 3, 2026 · 7 min read · Regulator
HealthcareAn Arizona Benefits CEO Pleads Guilty to Stealing $8.8 Million From Workers' Plans
James Campbell, CEO of Axim Fringe Solutions, pleaded guilty to embezzling $8.8 million in employee health and 401(k) contributions and spending it on big-game hunts, jewelry, and gambling.
Sep 30, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
HealthcareA Texas Clinic Owner Is Convicted in a $26 Million TRICARE Fraud Scheme
A federal jury convicted Frisco businessman Kevin Curry of billing the military's TRICARE health program $26 million for brain-stimulation therapy that was medically unnecessary or never provided, a scheme that paid out roughly $17 million and funded luxury purchases.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
Crypto & DeFiThe Justice Department Seizes $84 Million From a Tether-Linked Payments Firm
Federal prosecutors in California moved to seize $84 million from Capstone, a payments company they say ran as an unlicensed money transmitter and helped scammers turn stolen cash into stablecoins, with the complaint noting the firm processed payments tied to Tether and Bitfinex.
Sep 28, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
Crypto & DeFiUS Prosecutors Probe Binance Over Iran Sanctions Three Years After Its $4.3 Billion Plea
The Manhattan US Attorney's Office and the DOJ Criminal Division are examining whether Binance knowingly allowed Iran-linked trades, nearly three years after the exchange's $4.316 billion guilty plea and compliance monitor.
Sep 22, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
WYDE WeeklyRevolut and Block Cleared US Bank Charters, AI Proved Fermat and Navier-Stokes, and the CLARITY Act Hits the Senate Monday. Over 65,400 Meals.
Revolut and Block clear OCC bank paths, Wyoming puts its stablecoin reserves onchain, AI checks proofs of Fermat and Navier-Stokes, the CLARITY Act hits the Senate, and creators can now get paid to end hunger.
Sep 12, 2026 · 5 min read · Regulator
HealthcareDOJ Charges a Georgian National With Laundering Proceeds of a $1.3 Billion Health Care Fraud Scheme
A federal grand jury in Boston indicted Erekle Gugava on money laundering conspiracy tied to ND Medical Solutions, a Pennsylvania durable medical equipment company that billed Medicare and insurers at least $1.3 billion in the Operation Gold Rush health care fraud case.
Sep 11, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
LegalThe DOJ Extradites a Russian Developer Charged in a Bank Account Takeover Scheme That Targeted Millions
Sergei Filimonov was arraigned in Atlanta after extradition from the Republic of Georgia, accused of running spoofed bank login pages and buying sponsored search ads to harvest more than 5,000 stolen credentials.
Sep 10, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator
LegalTikTok and ByteDance Will Pay $400 Million to Settle the DOJ's Children's Privacy Case
The US Justice Department announced a $400 million COPPA settlement with TikTok and ByteDance on Friday, one of the largest children's online privacy recoveries ever, with $300 million paid immediately and $100 million pending a court order.
Aug 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
WYDE WeeklyJPMorgan Warns Food Inflation Could Double, Citi Will Custody Bitcoin, and EAT Tops Charity Tokens. Over 65,000 Meals.
Record child hunger and food insecurity collide with a wall of institutional crypto money, from Citi custody to the SEC and Treasury rulebooks, plus $105 billion for one AI data center. This week in the WYDE Newsroom.
Aug 22, 2026 · 7 min read · Regulator
AIA Judge Tosses the Economic Espionage Case Against Ex-Google AI Engineer Linwei Ding
US District Judge Vince Chhabria vacated seven economic espionage convictions against Linwei Ding for lack of evidence he meant to benefit China, while upholding seven trade secret theft counts tied to Google's AI data center technology, ahead of a September 1 sentencing.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
LegalThe DOJ Charges 17 Mabna Institute Hackers With Stealing 31 Terabytes From 144 US Universities for Iran's IRGC
A 14-count superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday adds eight defendants to a 2018 case, alleging a Tehran company spearphished more than 100,000 professors worldwide and resold the stolen research inside Iran through two websites.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
LegalThe SEC Charges Three Former Tricolor Executives Over $1.9 Billion in Auto Loan Bonds Backed by Double-Pledged Collateral
The SEC's civil complaint, filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, says the subprime auto lender sold the same loans into multiple deals and left more than $945 million owed to investors when it went bankrupt.
Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
WYDE WeeklyA Court Stripped Section 230, the FDA Killed Self-Certified Food Ingredients, and Wall Street Put $500 Billion Behind AI. Over 63,000 Meals.
WYDE Weekly: the SEC cancels its Regulation Crypto vote a day early, Colombia's earthquake toll reaches 273, a judge dismisses the Adani case with a rebuke, and Anthropic signs a $9.1 billion compute deal with a bitcoin miner.
Aug 15, 2026 · 5 min read · Regulator
PhilanthropyFormer SPLC Intelligence Project Director Heidi Beirich Is Charged in the DOJ's $4 Million Donor Fraud Case
A second superseding indictment unsealed Wednesday adds the former hate group researcher to the criminal case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which prosecutors say secretly moved more than $4 million in donations to extremist informants.
Aug 15, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator
LegalA Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Mail-In Voting Order Nationwide Ahead of the November Midterms
Judge Indira Talwani canceled her own nationwide block on August 26, days after the Supreme Court paused her earlier June ruling, clearing the Postal Service to proceed on the order for now ahead of the November midterms.
Aug 15, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator
LegalThe Justice Department Sues New York, Connecticut and Vermont Over In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students
Monday's complaints bring the campaign against state Dream Act laws to 17 states. Connecticut's attorney general says how the state runs its schools is not Washington's business.
Aug 12, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
LegalA Federal Judge Dismisses the Adani Bribery Case While Rebuking the DOJ for How It Dropped It
Judge Nicholas Garaufis granted the Justice Department's request to dismiss fraud charges against Gautam Adani with prejudice, then wrote that the decision showed a lack of respect for the judiciary.
Aug 12, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator
WYDE WeeklyA Judge Ordered Meta to Pay $567 Million, Another Gave HHS Until Noon, and the Farm Bill Died by One Vote. Over 63,000 Meals.
WYDE Weekly: the CLARITY Act misses its Senate deadline, SNAP enrollment drops by 4 million, HHS moves to erase 1,400 Head Start rules, and researchers use AI to design 16 working viruses.
Aug 8, 2026 · 8 min read · Regulator
AIOpenAI Pays $3.2 Million to Settle DOJ Charges It Discriminated Against U.S. Workers
The Justice Department says OpenAI and its subsidiary Statsig hid job postings, required mailed paper applications, and ran late-night radio ads to steer roles toward temporary visa holders. It is the largest of 13 settlements under the Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative.
Aug 5, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
Crypto & DeFiA Former FBI Agent Is Charged With Stealing Nearly $1 Million in Crypto, Then Asking ChatGPT How to Move to Europe
Prosecutors say Patrick Yaroch, a former counterintelligence supervisor with a Top Secret clearance, memorized seed phrases from FBI systems, moved nearly $1 million in crypto into his own wallets, and asked ChatGPT how to invest it and relocate to Europe.
Aug 4, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
WYDE WeeklyNorcross Gave $100M, the DOJ Charged $350M in Fraud, and BNY Put $8.6 Trillion Onchain. Over 60,000 Meals.
WYDE Weekly: a record Cooper Health gift, a $350 million Southeast fraud sweep, BNY's onchain funds, Circle's New York trust charter, and the EAT Clippers launch.
Aug 1, 2026 · 6 min read · Regulator
Food PolicyThe Justice Department Charges 17 Southeast Fraud Cases Worth More Than $350 Million
The new National Fraud Enforcement Division announced 17 cases across seven states on July 30, including a nearly $20 million food-stamp scheme run through a single Miami store, and stood up federal-state anti-fraud task forces.
Jul 31, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
AIFour Men Used ChatGPT to Fake Records in a $2.2 Million Minnesota Medicaid Fraud
Four Twin Cities men pleaded guilty to defrauding Minnesota's Housing Stabilization Services program of $2.2 million and used ChatGPT to fabricate records, part of a burgeoning trend of AI-assisted health care fraud the Justice Department is now tracking.
Jul 27, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
WYDE WeeklyVisa built stablecoin rails, Wyoming set a giving record, and the EAT Card hit the App Store. Over 60,000 meals.
WYDE Weekly: Visa's stablecoin platform, DTCC's first live tokenized trades, the Senate's unanimous no-pardon vote on SBF, WyoGives' record $6.46 million, Lilly's $100 billion endowment, and the EAT Card iOS launch.
Jul 18, 2026 · 6 min read · Regulator
Crypto & DeFiSenators Press AG Nominee Todd Blanche on Crypto Enforcement and the Binance Pardon
Todd Blanche's Senate confirmation hearing put the disbanded DOJ crypto enforcement unit and the Changpeng Zhao Binance pardon at center stage, with Democrats and Republicans both pressing the acting attorney general.
Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
LegalA DOJ Trade Fraud Task Force Says It Has Recovered More Than $1 Billion in a Year
The Justice Department's Trade Fraud Task Force says it has topped $1 billion in recoveries less than a year after launching, though about half came from a single aluminum tariff-evasion settlement in a case dating back to 2011.
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
WYDE WeeklyThe rails went public, Wall Street rang the NYSE bell, and Swift and Kelce sent $26M to food banks. 60,000 meals.
WYDE Weekly: Securitize's NYSE debut, Open USD's 140 firms, a $400M Ponzi plea, a 53-million-egg food-bank settlement, and Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's $26 million.
Jul 3, 2026 · 7 min read · Regulator
HealthcareAlibaba and Alipay US to Pay $600 Million Over Illegal Pharmaceutical Sales
The Justice Department's non-prosecution agreement covers roughly 80,000 illegal product sales into the US through Alibaba.com and AliExpress, the largest monetary settlement in the District of Rhode Island's history.
Jul 2, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
Food PolicyEgg Producers Settle Price-Fixing Case With 53 Million Eggs for Food Banks
Cal-Maine, Versova, and Hickman's will donate 53 million eggs and pay $3.3 million to food banks to settle state and DOJ claims they rigged the Urner Barry egg price index from 2022 to 2025.
Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
WYDE WeeklyBig Tech moved $1.5B into giving. A judge saved SNAP. Roubini went onchain. 58,300 meals.
WYDE Weekly: Intercept's $500M fund, Evan Spiegel's $550M medical-debt erase, the US $800M WFP pledge, Project Pangea, and the EAT Card beta.
Jun 27, 2026 · 6 min read · Regulator
Crypto & DeFiDOJ Seizes Huione Group Cloud Account Tied to Billions in Crypto Laundering
The Justice Department seized backend infrastructure for the Huione Group on June 23, the Cambodia-based marketplace FinCEN named a primary money laundering concern, as on-chain analytics traced billions in crypto fraud proceeds.
Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Subject of the story
HealthcareDOJ Charges 455 in Record $6.5 Billion Health Care Fraud Takedown
The Justice Department charged 455 defendants, including 90 medical professionals, in a $6.5 billion national health care fraud takedown that leaned on data analytics to find targets.
Jun 24, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
HealthcareFBI Captures $1.2 Billion Medicare Fraud Fugitive From New Most Wanted List
Herbert Leon Kimble, who prosecutors say ran a $1.2 billion Medicare fraud scheme using call centers and unnecessary orthopedic braces, was captured in the Philippines, the second arrest off the FBI's new Most Wanted Fraudsters list.
Jun 23, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator
PhilanthropyDOJ Stands Up National Fraud Division and IRS Targets Fiscal Sponsorship in Same Month
The DOJ launched the National Fraud Enforcement Division on April 7 and Treasury announced revisions to IRS Form 990 on April 23, building the federal infrastructure to surface what on-chain models already publish by default.
May 1, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator
HealthcareOrange County Pharmacy Operator Pleads Guilty to $270 Million Medi-Cal Fraud Built on Prior Authorization Loophole
Orange County pharmacy operator Paul Richard Randall pleaded guilty April 6 to submitting nearly $270 million in fraudulent Medi-Cal claims, the latest in a wave of California healthcare fraud cases.
Apr 13, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator
Government & FraudFBI Arrests 15 in $50 Million Southern California Hospice Fraud Crackdown
FBI arrests 15 in $50 million Southern California hospice fraud crackdown. Operation Never Say Die targets sham facilities billing Medicare for non-terminal patients.
Apr 3, 2026 · 3 min read · Regulator
HealthcareTelemedicine Company Owner Pleads Guilty to $46 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
A telemedicine company owner pleaded guilty to a $46 million Medicare fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary genetic tests and prescriptions.
Mar 29, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
WYDE Weekly$16 Billion in Fraud, $4 Billion in Phantom Charity, and 90 Days to Launch
DOJ fraud hits $16B, DAF transfers exposed, Somalia hunger doubles, Coinbase expands, and the $EAT Card locks a 60-day launch window.
Feb 28, 2026 · 5 min read · Subject of the story
Government & FraudDOJ Fraud Section Hits Record $16 Billion in Tracked Losses as Federal Crackdown Accelerates
The DOJ fraud section tracked $16 billion in intended losses in 2025, a record. A patent examiner paid $500K. Governor Walz testifies March 4 on $9 billion in Minnesota fraud.
Feb 28, 2026 · 2 min read · Regulator
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