Like Print

Enforcement Statistics

How to Interpret Criminal Investigation Data:

Since actions on a specific investigation may cross fiscal years, the totals shown under Investigations Initiated may not always represent the same universe of investigations displayed under other actions within the same fiscal year.

Actions	FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006	FY 2007	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010	FY 2011	FY 2012

Investigations Initiated
Tax Investigations	2446	2163	2631	2445	2516	2283	2612	2889	2652	2987
Other Financial Crimes	1555	1754	1638	1462	1695	1466	1509	1817	2038	2138
Total	4001	3917	4269	3907	4211	3749	4121	4706	4720	5125

Prosecution Recommendations
Tax Investigations	1353	1461	1454	1351	1430	1297	1278	1507	1610	1790
Other Financial Crimes	1188	1576	1405	1369	1407	1488	1292	1527	1800	1911
Total	2541	3037	2859	2720	2837	2785	2570	3034	3410	3701

Indictments/ Informations
Tax Investigations	1036	1114	1195	1169	1126	1171	1141	1250	1325	1531
Other Financial Crimes	1092	1375	1211	1150	1197	1376	1194	1395	1673	1859
Total	2128	2489	2406	2319	2323	2547	2335	2645	2998	3390

Sentenced
Tax Investigations	835	855	1015	996	1112	1016	1113	1054	1162	1210
Other Financial Crimes	933	922	1080	1024	1011	941	1116	1118	1044	1256
Total	1768	1777	2095	2020	2123	1957	2229	2172	2206	2466

Special Agents	2805	2796	2843	2804	2675	2617	2725	2751	2730	2650

Footnotes:
Tax Investigations include all violations of the criminal statutes under Title 26, as well as other federal criminal violations whose underlying purpose was circumvention of the Internal Revenue laws.
Other financial crimes include all money laundering and currency crimes violations not specified under tax investigations.
(See list of U.S. Code Statutes for which CI has jurisdiction.)

Source: Criminal Investigation Management Information System (CIMIS)

Criminal Enforcement Home Page

Page Last Reviewed or Updated: 2012-12-10