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Immigration still driving prosecutions upward

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The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse just released this news bulletin:

“After several months of declines since reaching all-time highs in September, new immigration prosecutions in February were up 22% from the previous month. According to timely case-by-case data obtained and analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), these 8,179 cases represent an increase of about 90% from a year ago, and 250% from February 2004.

While immigration cases still account for more than half (53%) of all new federal prosecutions, new filings rose in nearly every other category as well, including drugs (up 49%), weapons (up 19%), white collar crime (up 24%) and government regulation (up 42%). Overall, new criminal cases are at the second-highest level recorded, up 27% from January and up 39% from a year ago.”

TRAC provides detailed reports on federal convictions, prosecutions and on selected government agencies’ enforcement trends.

IRS data: 15% of large financial services companies were audited in 2008

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Just in from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse:

“Newly released data from the IRS show that only 15% of large financial services companies — those with $250 million or more in assets — were audited in 2008, compared with 64% of all other similar sized corporations. And when they were performed, these financial service audits appear to have been less thorough than those in other industries. In addition, fewer of these audits were being performed by the IRS agency group with special expertise in large financial service corporations, while the number performed by other IRS groups more than doubled since 2004.”

“These latest findings on the IRS, based on documents and data obtained by TRAC under the Freedom of Information Act, are available at
http://trac.syr.edu/tracirs/latest/207/“