ST. LOUIS — This is an official press release from the U.S. Department of Justice (USAO - Missouri, Eastern), published as received.
ST. LOUIS – U.S. Attorney Thomas C. Albus announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Missouri collected $16,070,376 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2025. Of this amount, $14,077,382 was collected in criminal actions and $1,992,993 was collected in civil actions.
Additionally, the Eastern District of Missouri worked with other U.S. Attorney’s offices and components of the Department of Justice to collect an additional $76,319,861 in cases pursued jointly by these offices. Of this amount, $274,366 was collected in criminal actions and $76,045,494 was collected in civil actions.
“Last year, we recovered more than one million dollars for Medicare and Medicaid in one case alone, and millions of dollars more that were fraudulently obtained by faking disabilities,” said U.S. Attorney Albus. “Those contemplating fraud in the Eastern District of Missouri should know that the U.S. Attorney’s office will aggressively pursue the recovery of ill-gotten gains and do our best, even years later, to recover assets due to victims.”
Among the collections in criminal actions in the Eastern District of Missouri was a total of $1,323,318 recovered from Michael McCormac to reimburse Medicare, the Missouri Medicaid program and the Ohio Medicaid program. McCormac is the former owner of a mail order pharmacy who pleaded guilty to two counts of violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute and admitted paying kickbacks to marketing companies to generate prescriptions for expensive medications. The office has also continued to recover funds from a disability fraud case involving two Jefferson County chiropractors and more than two dozen patients. About $2.9 million was collected last year in those cases.
The U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, along with the department’s litigating divisions, are responsible for enforcing and collecting civil and criminal debts owed to the U.S. and criminal debts owed to federal crime victims. The law requires defendants to pay restitution to victims of certain federal crimes who have suffered a physical injury or financial loss. While restitution is paid to the victim, criminal fines and felony assessments are paid to the department’s Crime Victims Fund, which distributes the funds collected to federal and state victim compensation and victim assistance programs.
Additionally, the U.S. Attorney’s office, working with partner agencies and divisions, collected $5,420,367 in asset forfeiture actions in FY 2025. Forfeited assets deposited into the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund are used to restore funds to crime victims and for a variety of law enforcement purposes. The office also obtained the forfeiture of 334 firearms involved in criminal offenses.
