Act 5 of 5

Weak Prosecutions

Charged dollars are the floor, not the file

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Source: Forbes Breaking News · original. Hosted copy unaltered except as noted on this page; rights remain with the publisher.

The meal case charged about $250 million against a claims file read at half of $18 billion. The office that read the file went from 64 assistant U.S. attorneys to 36 and the man who read it resigned. The rules a prosecutor is held to are public: Berger, Brady, Giglio, the Justice Manual. They are on this site so the pace can be measured against them, not against a mood.

The record for this act

Berger v. United States 1935-04-15 case
United States v. Armstrong 1996-05-13 case
ABA Prosecution Function, 4th ed. 2017-01-01 treatise
DOJ Justice Manual 9-27.000 2018-01-01 treatise
DOJ Justice Manual 9-42.000 2020-01-01 treatise
Thompson and at least five senior prosecutors resign 2026-01-13 event
Rosen: resources adequate, pace will increase, no timeline 2026-02-25 event
United States v. Bock and others case
Partners in Nutrition civil case
May 21 2026 Medicaid takedown case
NUWAY Alliance FCA case
Berger v. United States, 295 U.S. 78 case
United States v. Armstrong, 517 U.S. 456 case

$18Bbilled by the 14 high-risk programs since 2018, per the CMS pull Thompson read

half or moreThompson's reading of that file, December 18, 2025

$1.51B → $4.32Bthe 14 programs, 2018 to 2025

$6.1M → $443Mautism services (EIDBI), 2018 to 2025

~$250Mcharged loss in the meal case; Bock: 500 months, $243M restitution

64 → 36assistant U.S. attorneys in the Minnesota office

Program spending, millions of dollars. DHS extract via Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (Apr 13, 2026) and Minnesota Reformer (Apr 21, 2026). Blank years were not itemized.

Charged dollars are the floor. The claims file is the measurement. They are different numbers and this site keeps them apart.