Rep. Summer Lee Launches Investigation into DOJ for Dropping Corporate Criminal Cases with Trump Connections

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WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 18, 2025 — Today, Congresswoman Summer L. Lee (PA-12), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement, launched an investigation into the Department of Justice (DOJ) for its concerning failure to fully prosecute large corporations that have violated the law. Reports indicate that major donors to Trump have been given leniency under this administration. The investigation comes as a criminal charge against Boeing—which donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund—was dropped. The corporation was facing prosecution for the two fatal 737 MAX plane crashes that killed 346 people.

In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Rep. Lee demanded information and documents concerning corporate criminal enforcement and rationales for each case that has been declined, paused, or resolved through prosecution or non-prosecution agreements. An investigation by Public Citizen found that 30 corporations that faced federal investigations by DOJ collectively gave $29.5 million to President Trump’s inauguration fund.

“The Department of Justice (DOJ) has an obligation to uphold the laws of this country. No person or corporation should be above the law, regardless of how many resources or how much money they may have. Yet DOJ has increasingly failed to fully prosecute large corporations,” wrote Rep. Lee. “When corporations break the law and exploit the American people, they must be held to account. It is your duty as attorney general to uphold the laws of this country, regardless of who committed the wrongdoing and how much support they have given to the Trump Administration.”

Rep. Lee is requesting the DOJ provide the following information and documents by no later than December 2, 2025:

1. All memoranda, directives, guidance, communications, or other materials created, transmitted, or received by DOJ from January 20, 2025, to the present concerning the use of deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements under corporate criminal enforcement;
2. All memoranda, directives, guidance, communications, or other materials created, transmitted, or received by DOJ from January 20, 2025, to the present concerning declinations under corporate criminal enforcement;
3. All communications created, transmitted, or received by DOJ from January 20, 2025, to the present from the Executive Office of the President regarding pending criminal cases against corporations;
4. Records of complaints or objections received by DOJ from alleged victims in the corporate criminal cases that have been declined, paused, or resolved through prosecution agreements or non-prosecution agreements since January 20, 2025;
5. A detailed list and comprehensive explanation of DOJ’s rationale for each of the corporate criminal cases that have been declined, paused, or received prosecution agreements or non-prosecution agreements since January 20, 2025; and
6. A detailed and comprehensive list of any and all oversight mechanisms that are currently in place to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest or quid pro quo agreements between President Trump, members of his family, the Trump Organization, and the corporations facing investigation or prosecution.   

Full letter text is available here.

Congresswoman Summer Lee serves on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Education and Workforce. Since taking office in January 2023, she has delivered historic levels of federal investment totaling over $2.4 Billion brought back to Western PA, including over $580 million for infrastructure, over $110 million for affordable transit, over $500 million to keep clean energy manufacturing at home in Pennsylvania, and over $55 million on clean energy efforts in and around schools to help keep our kids and communities safe. These investments will help improve Western Pennsylvania’s infrastructure and transit, ensure cleaner air and drinking water, lower housing costs, fund research institutions, fuel clean manufacturing, fund STEM innovation and entrepreneurship, boost workforce development, and create thousands of good paying union jobs.  Lee and her team have also delivered casework and constituent services to over 3,000 constituents with issues ranging from helping our seniors and disabled community access Medicare and social security to helping folks secure housing and helping families with immigration support and passports.