BOSTON — The U.S. attorney's office for Massachusetts collected more than $164 million in criminal and civil cases in fiscal year 2026 and reached settlements worth more than $133 million, U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley said Thursday.

Of the money collected, $31 million came from criminal cases and $132 million from civil cases, the office said. It also recovered more than $35 million in forfeited assets. Working with other U.S. attorney's offices and Justice Department divisions, the Massachusetts office said it collected more than $162.8 million in jointly pursued cases.

The office's civil enforcement unit reached 26 settlements totaling $133,198,525, prosecutors said. The largest was a $46 million settlement with Veloxis Pharmaceuticals resolving criminal and civil allegations that the company paid kickbacks to health care professionals in marketing its drug Envarsus.

Other settlements included $15 million from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute over what the office described as fraud related to cancer research grants, and $14.5 million from Laboratory Corporation of America over Medicare claims for urine drug testing that prosecutors said was medically unnecessary.

The office said its settlements over alleged fraud in the Paycheck Protection Program, the pandemic-era business aid program, have totaled $166,434,620 since the pandemic.

The office's asset recovery unit collected more than $31.3 million in restitution for victims, criminal fines and special assessments, and forfeited $35,315,258 in criminal proceeds and other property, prosecutors said. The unit filed six civil forfeiture complaints seeking cryptocurrency that prosecutors allege is traceable to scams aimed at Massachusetts residents, including romance and elder fraud.

The unit also won a final forfeiture order covering more than 100 wildlife parts, including orangutan and tiger skulls and a jaguar skin, from endangered, threatened and protected species. With the Justice Department, it distributed more than $12.4 million in previously forfeited funds tied to Roger Knox and others to more than 8,000 securities fraud victims, the office said.

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