Today, the Department of Justice released the 2025 Annual Report to Congress on Department of Justice Activities to Combat Elder Fraud and Abuse, which details the Department’s progress in protecting older Americans and holding perpetrators of elder fraud accountable. Over the reporting period, criminal and civil litigators across the Department pursued more than 280 enforcement actions against over 600 defendants — including many in the United States illegally or located overseas and extradited to be charged in US courts. These offenders, both domestic and transnational, attempted to steal, or did steal, more than $2 billion from more than one million older Americans. The Department also successfully held multiple nursing home operators accountable for providing grossly substandard care to vulnerable Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. To strengthen its response to elder fraud and abuse, the Department continued to invest in capacity building for law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges. It held the first National Elder Abuse Multidisciplinary Team Summit, which brought together nearly 400 elder abuse multidisciplinary team members from around the country to share best practices for coordinated enforcement and improved services for older Americans.