target letter

English

Noun

target letter (plural target letters)

1. (US) An official letter from the United States Department of Justice informing someone that they are being investigated and may be charged with a crime.
   • 2023 July 14, Ben Protess, Maggie Haberman, Alan Feuer, “Trump Employee Warned of Charges in Classified Documents Case”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-19:

     Prosecutors use target letters to inform subjects of criminal investigations that they could be charged with crimes.

Further reading

• target letter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia