U.S. federal prosecutors

Federal prosecutions of illegal gambling operations can include charges such as wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering.

Appointments of U.S. federal prosecutors made without the customary U.S. Senate confirmation process have prompted legal challenges to the prosecutors' legitimacy and have sometimes clouded the cases those prosecutors brought.

Federal human smuggling charges can allege that a person accepted money to transport within the United States people who were present in the country illegally.

Payments and material benefits provided to an individual (for example, housing, credit-card payments, private schooling, or legal bill payments) can be treated by prosecutors as taxable income that must be reported on tax returns, and failing to disclose such benefits on joint tax filings can result in tax-related charges.

A 'filter team' in U.S. federal prosecutions is a team of lawyers tasked with reviewing evidence, including privileged materials, to identify potential conflicts of interest and to handle sensitive or privileged information.

U.S. federal prosecutors can bring charges such as terrorism or violence against a mass transportation system for intentional attacks that target public transit systems.

Acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government is a type of federal criminal charge that U.S. prosecutors can bring.

Federal campaign-finance prosecutions have included charges such as conspiracy and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.