Trump's Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

[muriel_volestrangler]

The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a national union was accused of embezzlement; and an investigation into a cryptocurrency company suspected of cheating investors.

In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases, according to an analysis by ProPublica.
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But the number of declinations under Bondi marks a striking departure not only from the Biden administration but also the first Trump term, according to the ProPublica analysis, which examined two decades of DOJ data, including the first six months of Trump’s second term. ProPublica determined the increase is not the result of inheriting a larger caseload or more referrals from law enforcement.

In February 2025 alone, which included the first weeks of Bondi’s tenure, nearly 11,000 cases were declined, the most in a month since at least 2004. The previous high was just over 6,500 cases in September 2019, during Trump’s first administration.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations

It's the Trump way - why worry about the rule of law, when you have non-whites to persecute instead?

[Irish_Dem]

1. How many of these dropped investigations paid a bribe to Trump?

Or are pals of the Trump Crime Syndicate?