In this case, it looks like it went through the ICE since it was an international crime. I can't find a budget newer than 2012, but all of their international i

In this case, it looks like it went through the ICE since it was an international crime. I can't find a budget newer than 2012, but all of their international investigations combined were $115 million in 2012 so that should be an upper bound for cases like this one. https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/budget2012 https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/budget2012 I would suspect that purely domestic crimes are usually handled through the courts. For example, I don't recall the RIAA trying to get individuals prosecuted for crimes nearly as often as them suing people.