Federal data guide
Federal Enforcement & Oversight Data
A guide to the federal datasets behind law enforcement, prosecution, and government oversight — the DOJ’s antitrust, fraud, and civil-rights work, the US Attorney and corporate-prosecution records, the regulatory enforcers, the Inspectors General and GAO that watch the agencies, and the screening lists that tie them together. Each links to a full deep-dive.
Federal accountability runs on two tracks: enforcement (the government acting against wrongdoers) and oversight (watchdogs acting against the government). The DOJ prosecutes — antitrust, False Claims Act fraud, civil rights, and the corporate deferred-prosecution deals — while agencies like the FTC, HHS-OIG, PCAOB, and NRC enforce their own domains. On the oversight side, the Inspectors General and the GAO audit the agencies themselves. And because a single bad actor can appear across dozens of these lists, compliance screening exists to find them. The guides group the deep-dives accordingly. (Bank and securities enforcement live in the financial guide; sanctions in the trade guide.)
DOJ & federal prosecution
The Justice Department’s civil and criminal enforcement.
- DOJ Antitrust Division: The Federal Merger Review and Cartel Enforcement Database — merger review and cartels
- DOJ False Claims Act Settlements: The $70 Billion Fraud Recovery Database — qui tam fraud recoveries
- DOJ Civil Rights Division: The Federal Database Behind Civil Rights Enforcement Actions — civil-rights enforcement
- US Attorney Prosecution Data: The Federal Database Behind 80,000 Annual Criminal Cases — US Attorney caseloads
- Corporate Prosecution Registry: DPAs, NPAs, and the Too-Big-to-Jail Database — corporate prosecutions
- The DPA database: every federal deferred prosecution agreement since 1992 — deferred-prosecution agreements
- IRS Criminal Investigation: The Federal Database Behind Tax Fraud and Financial Crime Prosecutions — tax and financial-crime cases
Regulatory enforcement
Agency-specific enforcement beyond the DOJ.
- FTC Enforcement: The Federal Record of Consumer-Protection and Antitrust Actions — consumer protection and antitrust
- HHS-OIG Enforcement: The Federal Record of Healthcare Fraud Settlements and Penalties — healthcare-fraud settlements
- HHS OIG Exclusions: The Federal Healthcare Fraud Blacklist That Every Provider Must Screen Against — the healthcare exclusion list
- PCAOB: The Federal Audit Watchdog Created After Enron and the KPMG Inspection-Data Scandal — audit-firm oversight
- NRC Reactor Oversight Process: The Federal Database Behind Nuclear Plant Safety Ratings — nuclear-plant oversight
Inspectors General & GAO oversight
The watchdogs that audit the agencies.
- Oversight.gov: The Federal Record of Every Inspector General Report in One Place — every IG report, cross-agency
- GAO Reports: The Federal Database Behind Congress’s Watchdog — the congressional watchdog
- DOJ Inspector General Reports: The Federal Record of Watching the Watchmen — DOJ oversight
- VA Inspector General Reports: The Federal Record of Oversight at Veterans Affairs — VA oversight
- NASA OIG Reports: The Federal Record of Auditing the Space Program — NASA oversight
Compliance screening
Finding one bad actor across many enforcement lists.
- Compliance Screening Across 30+ Federal Enforcement Lists: How the Risk Score Works — screening across 30+ lists
- Entity resolution for multi-list compliance screening: reducing false positives without sacrificing recall — the entity-matching problem
More guides at Federal data guides, or browse all writing and the full dataset catalog.