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The Department of Justice collected $24.7 billion in civil and criminal actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2014, Attorney General Eric Holder announced in a video released today by the agency. That amount is “more than three times the $8 billion total the Department collected in 2013,” Holder ...
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