Fraud By The Numbers

Fraud By The Numbers Series

  • Nursing a Grudge: DOJ Cracks Down on Nursing Home Cons

    The Department of Justice’s 2025 Report on Combatting Elder Fraud and Abuse revealed the Department initiated 283 enforcement actions involving over 600 defendants charged with stealing or alleged to have stolen over $2 billion from over 1 million victims as well as the government.1 In 2025, the Department brought several enforcement actions against nursing homes and providers that committed fraud, provided medically unnecessary services,…

  • Earning the Right to Hear Bad News First

    $1 million for a single tip. On January 29, 2026, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and the U.S. Postal Service announced the first award under the Antitrust Whistleblower Rewards Program: $1 million to an individual whose information led to a deferred prosecution agreement and $3.28 million criminal fine against EBLOCK Corporation, an online used-vehicle auction…

  • Whistleblowers Had a Record Year in 2025

    It is time for our yearly review of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) annual False Claims Act (FCA) statistics.   In fiscal year 2025,1 DOJ’s FCA statistics broke records in multiple categories. First, DOJ reported an overall total of $6.8 billion recovered through FCA settlements and judgments, of which $5.34 billion was recovered through qui tam actions. As DOJ noted in its press release, that is the highest total…

  • The Securities Fraudster’s Shopping List

    What happens to investors’ money during a securities fraud? Often, it goes shopping. We reviewed six years of SEC enforcement actions, from January 2020 through December 2025, spanning administrations of both parties. Over that period, the SEC alleged in at least 85 enforcement actions that money taken from investors went to luxury purchases: 37 cases involving luxury…

  • Fighting Medicaid Fraud is a Good Investment and Good Policy – The Numbers Show It

    Last year’s HHS-OIG report on Medicaid enforcement actions shows that investing in fraud fighting works: the return on investment for every dollar invested in State Medicaid Fraud Control Units (MFCUs) was a whopping 464%, with recoveries at roughly $2 billion in total.   For law enforcement, this is an impressive return on taxpayer money. For healthcare providers, it is a reminder that Medicaid fraud remains a top enforcement priority. And for…

  • Welcome to Fraud by the Numbers

    Welcome to The Anti-Fraud Coalition’s Sixth Annual Fraud by the Numbers! Each year in September, TAF Coalition uses cold, hard numbers and facts to illustrate how fraud costs the government, taxpayers, and financial market participants – and how impactful whistleblowers can be in stopping that fraud. We will post blogs throughout the month of September demonstrating what the…

  • Whistleblowers Can Carry the Torch for Fraud Fighting!

    During the past month, Fraud by the Numbers has explored the pervasive nature of fraud on the government and financial markets across sectors, and the efforts to fight that fraud. While the scope of the problem is enormous, recoveries are still small compared with the hundreds of billions of dollars lost to fraud each year. But…

  • U.S. Attorneys’ Offices By the Numbers: a Review of July 2024 through July 2025 Settlements

    Thus far, 2025 False Claims Act settlement activity is shaping up to be more active than the first three quarters of 2024.* Using publicly available information from press releases, we compiled settlement data to illuminate trends in this space. From January 2025 through July 31, 2025, we saw a total of 171 publicly announced settlements…

  • The VA: The Civilian Agency with the Most Procurement Dollars at Stake – and a Fraud Problem

    In earlier Fraud by the Numbers, we have reviewed the U.S. Government’s own procurement data, to examine how taxpayer dollars are allocated across agencies and procurement priorities. After all, it’s the government money flowing to these agencies that attracts fraud.   Using the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) annual snapshot, we have analyzed: – Drug Procurement (reporting…

  • The Need for Whistleblowers in Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement

    The Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) of 2020 created a whistleblower reward program for individuals who report violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, the primary anti-money laundering law in the United States. The program, administered by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), has been in effect since January 1, 2021. The AMLA specified that the whistleblower…