RESOURCES DEVOTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO COMBAT WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND PUBLIC CORRUPTION - REPORT BY THE US COMPTROLLER GENERAL TO CONGRESS, HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

• NCJ Number: 56022
• Author(s): ANON
• Date Published: 1979
• Length: 45 pages
• Corporate Author: US Government Accountability Office
• Sale Source: US Government Accountability Office
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

THE RESOURCES ALLOCATED BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO THE INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND PUBLIC CORRUPTION DURING FISCAL 1977 AND 1978 ARE REPORTED.

Abstract

THE REPORT ENCOMPASSES THE FOLLOWING COMPONENTS OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI), U.S. ATTORNEYS; CRIMINAL DIVISION (ORGANIZED CRIME AND RACKETEERING, PUBLIC INTEGRITY, AND FRAUD SECTIONS), ANTITRUST DIVISION; TAX DIVISION (CRIMINAL SECTION), AND CIVIL DIVISION (CIVIL FRAUD SECTION). THE INFORMATION REPORTED WAS OBTAINED BY INTERVIEWING JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS AND BY REVIEWING THE FBI'S COMPUTERIZED RESOURCE DATA. THE SIX COMPONENTS DEVOTED 16.3 AND 16.8 PERCENT OF THEIR TOTAL BUDGETS TO WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND PUBLIC CORRUPTION IN FISCAL 1977 AND 1978, RESPECTIVELY. IN FISCAL 1979, THE COMPONENTS (EXCLUSIVE OF U.S. ATTORNEYS) PLAN TO DEVOTE A TOTAL OF $104,227,000, OR 15.8 PERCENT OF THEIR TOTAL BUDGETS, TO WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND CORRUPTION. IN FISCAL 1977 AND 1978, THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ALLOCATED APPROXIMATELY 5.1 PERCENT OF ITS TOTAL BUDGET EACH YEAR TO FIGHTING WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND CORRUPTION. IN 1979, THE DEPARTMENT (EXCLUSIVE OF U.S. ATTORNEYS) PLANS TO ALLOCATE 4.2 PERCENT OF ITS FUNDS TO WHITE-COLLAR CRIME AND CORRUPTION. THE REPORT ALSO INCLUDES A BREAKDOWN OF LEAA GRANTS IN THE AREAS OF WHITE-COLLAR AND ORGANIZED CRIME, PLUS TABULAR DATA ON THE ALLOCATION OF PERSONNEL AND FUNDS THROUGHOUT THE DEPARTMENT.