Prosecutions for January 2025
Referring Agency: Social Security Administration
The latest available data from the Justice Department show that during January 2025 the government reported 6 new prosecutions for these matters. Those cases were referred by the Social Security Administration. According to the case-by-case information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), this number is down from 17 the previous month.
The comparisons of the number of defendants charged are based on case-by-case information obtained by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (see Table 2).
When monthly 2025 prosecutions of this type are compared with those of the same period in the previous year, the number of filings was down (-6.6%). Prosecutions over the past year are still much lower than they were five years ago. Overall, the data show that prosecutions of this type are down 60 percent from levels reported in 2020.
Figure 1. Monthly Trends in Prosecutions
The decrease from the levels five years ago in prosecutions for these matters is shown more clearly in Figure 2. The vertical bars in Figure 2 represent the number of prosecutions of this type recorded on a month-to-month basis. Where a prosecution was initially filed in U.S. Magistrate Court and then transferred to the U.S. District Court, the magistrate filing date was used since this provides an earlier indicator of actual trends. The superimposed line on the bars plots the six-month moving average so that natural fluctuations are smoothed out. To view trends year-by-year rather than month-by-month, see TRAC's annual report series for a broader picture.
Number of Defendants in Cases
Table 2 lists all separate cases with the number of defendants.
Case Defendant # 2025 - Ark, W (Fort Smith) Case: 1 1 Details 2025 - Cal, S (San Diego) Case: 2 1 Details 2025 - Mo, W (Kansas City) Case: 3 1 Details 2025 - N. Y., N (Syracuse) Case: 4 1 Details 2025 - Puer Rico (Hayto Ray) Case: 5 1 Details 2025 - Texas, W (San Antonio) Case: 6 1 Details Table 2. Number of Defendants per Case
Report Generated: March 12, 2025
