Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti Delivers Remarks at the Global Investigations Review Annual Meeting

# DOJ Criminal Division Prioritizes White-Collar Enforcement

Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti outlined the Criminal Division's white-collar enforcement priorities during remarks at the Global Investigations Review Annual Meeting in New York on September 19, 2025. Galeotti emphasized that the division remains focused on identifying, investigating, and prosecuting fraud and corruption while protecting American interests.

Health care fraud enforcement achieved record-breaking results, with the largest takedown in U.S. history announced in June. The operation resulted in charges against over 300 individuals, including nearly 100 medical professionals, involving $14.6 billion in fraudulent claims submitted to Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs. Operation Gold Rush, part of this enforcement action, charged 29 defendants connected to transnational criminal organizations that submitted over $12 billion in fraudulent insurance claims.

Galeotti identified five key priority areas for ongoing enforcement: health care fraud, procurement fraud, market integrity including crimes involving Chinese variable interest entities, and foreign corruption. The official stressed that white-collar crime enforcement harms taxpayers and patients while strengthening illicit financial networks used by criminal organizations, cartels, terrorists, and hostile nation states.