How Trump law enforcement figures were calculated

A second method measured only cases that were simultaneously reported and settled, which means that the Obama totals did not include the cases challenged by the defendants and settled later under Mr. Trump.

For another approach, Urska Velikonja, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, has compiled many years of SEC penalty data, reproduced as closely as possible, from the SEC's approach. This approach is based on the when the cases were settled, not when they were closed, and also includes amounts paid to government agencies other than the SEC, including abroad.

The second. rejected the Times' approach, saying it would have been more appropriate to compare the first 20 months of the Trump administration to the first 20 months of the Obama era or its second term. This comparison would show more cases filed under the Trump period, the agency said.

The Times, however, is focused on the penalties and not on the total cases. And he did not look into the early months of the Obama administration because the agency was in turmoil after the financial crisis, while the last few months were the agency of which M Trump had inherited.

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The Ministry of Justice

The Times has asked the Legal Data Lab of the University of Virginia Law School and the Duke Law School, which maintains a criminal record, to analyze all such cases filed during the first 20 months of the Trump administration and compare them to those filed in the first and last 20 months of the Obama White House. The analysis reflects the amounts paid to federal prosecutions, whether in the form of fines, restitution or confiscation. It does not reflect amounts paid to civil regulators or state or foreign supervisory authorities.

The Times also analyzed civil frauds against financial institutions, based on a list of such cases established by the Buckley Sandler law firm from public announcements. The Ministry of Justice has two main methods for initiating such prosecutions, which require a less burdensome burden of proof than criminal cases: the False Statements Act and the Law on Reform, Recovery and Torture. execution of financial institutions.

Other agencies

The analysis of the enforcement activities by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission was based on the data provided by the commission.

Public Citizen, a leftist watch group, released a report in July that examined law enforcement by other agencies. The report was based on data from the research project Corporate Project, a non-profit group that records the implementation measures taken by the federal government.