`federal_criminal_search`

Pack: federal-criminal · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/federal-criminal/mcp

Find US FEDERAL CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS by defendant name. Searches federal district court dockets — cases captioned “United States v. …” — no API key. Returns the case caption, docket number, district, filing date, termination date and assigned judge. Use for “has this person or company been federally charged”, background and counterparty checks, and enforcement research. Returns the EXISTENCE of a prosecution, not the indictment or any filed document.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`defendant`	string	yes	Defendant name or a distinctive part of it, e.g. “Holmes”.
`court`	string	no	Optional federal district id, e.g. “cand”, “nysd”, “txwd”.
`filed_after`	string	no	Only cases filed on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`filed_before`	string	no	Only cases filed on or before this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`limit`	number	no	Maximum dockets to return (1-50, default 10).

Example call

Arguments

{
  "defendant": "Holmes",
  "limit": 5
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/federal-criminal/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"federal_criminal_search","arguments":{"defendant":"Holmes","limit":5}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('federal_criminal_search', {
  "defendant": "Holmes",
  "limit": 5
});

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "federal-criminal": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/federal-criminal/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

federal_criminal_search