Despite Trump promises, DOJ drops thousands of crime cases
As reported by ProPublica, Attorney General Pam Bondi's DOJ shuttered over 23,000 criminal cases in its first six months, abandoning investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and nursing home abuse.
February 2025 alone saw nearly 11,000 declinations—the highest monthly total since at least 2004.
The department declined nearly 5,000 drug cases, 45% above historical average. The same strategy also applied to over 1,300 terrorism cases and 900 fraud cases, despite Donald Trump's 2024 Presidential champagin promising to combat these crimes.
Meanwhile, immigration prosecutions tripled to 32,000.
Former prosecutor Joseph Gerbasi abandoned fentanyl investigations after Bondi redirected resources toward Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua cases.
Former prosecutor Michael Gordon described pressure to close cases by arbitrary deadlines, noting supervisors demanded statistics "to make ourselves look good." Nearly 300 DOJ employees who left the department wrote that Bondi's DOJ is "taking a sledgehammer" to rule-of-law protections.
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