DOJ under Bondi drops 23,000 criminal cases to redirect resources to immigration enforcement

The Justice Department under Attorney General Pam Bondi declined more than 23,000 criminal investigations in the first six months of the Trump administration, abandoning cases involving terrorism, white-collar crime, drug trafficking, and fraud to shift resources to immigration enforcement. In February 2025 alone, nearly 11,000 cases were declined — the most in a single month since at least 2004. Dropped cases included a Virginia nursing home patient abuse probe, union embezzlement investigations, and a cryptocurrency fraud case.