The Department of Justice has 8,000 fraud cases under investigation, just a “fraction” of the scams “ripping off our country every day,” said acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
In his first press conference on Tuesday, Blanche laid out details of the department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, which was created in January, saying it represents “a comprehensive and coordinated approach” to investigating fraud.
Every U.S. Attorney’s office in the country will have at least one prosecutor dedicated to investigating fraud, said Blanche, who took the helm at Justice on April 2 after Pam Bondi was fired as attorney general.
Blanche said the department “will spare no resources” in giving the new division the tools it needs to complete investigations and track down the most sophisticated fraudsters.
The acting attorney general also mentioned the creation of the National Fraud Detection Center, which he described as a data analytics team that would “ferret out the most harmful actors” in fraud operations.
“The American people deserve an end to the crisis of fraud,” Blanche said.
Colin McDonald was named the head of the National Fraud Enforcement Division. McDonald was the assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California.
The division is part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to address fraud.
In March, Trump created the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud and made Vice President JD Vance the chairman of it.
Blanche said he wouldn’t comment on ongoing investigations but cited examples of recent prosecutions.
Eight people were arrested on April 2 on federal charges related to Medicare fraud, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California.
They are accused of running sham hospice care facilities, mostly in Southern California, that bilked Medicare for the treatment of people who had no terminal illnesses. The U.S. attorney alleged the defendants were part of a $50 million scheme.
Los Angeles County was the focal point of long-running hospice-care scams. According to one government investigation, a single building in Van Nuys contained more than 150 licensed hospice and home health agencies—a number investigators believe exceeded the structure’s capacity.
In Minnesota, Gov. Tim Walz ended his bid for reelection amid a child daycare fraud scheme that came to light in December 2025. The federal Department of Health and Human Services halted funding to child care in Minnesota as investigators looked into systemwide fraud.
“Minnesota is a Criminal COVER UP of the massive Financial Fraud that has gone on!” Trump posted on Truth Social on Jan. 25.
Tom Gantert is a writer for The Epoch Times.
Reprinted with Permission from The Epoch Times – By Tom Gantert
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The National Fraud Enforcement Division needs to focus on voter fraud in addition to Medicare and child care fraud.
That doesn’t mean there will be accountability for all of this fraud. When are we going to see these criminals prosecuted or perp walked? The judges who try these cases are just as bad. So sad.
Shouldn’t our government been doing this all along? Criminals aren’t just limited to thugs on the streets, but the big difference is when they get caught, they might go to jail. Unfortunately for us, criminal politicians and bureaucrats never seem to get caught but if they do always wiggle off the hook because their attorney generals will never arrest and prosecute their boss’. These disgraced criminals try to slither off into obscurity hoping no one will notice. This is a major flaw having a state’s attorney general in lockstep with the same political party but in short they are an accessary to the crime/s.
They will never stop the fraud.There are way too many corrupt people in AMERICA today,many more than when I grew up.How many did the obama/soros/biden regime import.All three want to destroy our country.
I want to see arrests. I want to see money and assets confiscated and returned to the American people.
I’ve said this before: wake me up when we see our first prosecution. If we’re still sitting here 3, 4 or more years from now, I won’t be surprised but extremely disappointed.
8 000 fraud cases, 8 arrests, a new team is needed, no expense will be spared. Am I supposed to scream laugh or just to throw my arms up in air?
That better include some prominent democRATS!!!!
I can’t wait for them to come to New York. I bet they will have a field day!
Fraud???
I think it’s when an elected official takes an oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, then does everything he/she can to destroy it.
Unfortunately, politicians have figured out that the lack of oversight of public spending can be used to fund their campaigns.
We need to restrict campaign funding to registered voters in the districts where the representatives are running.
No corporate, union, party or outside the district money should be allowed.
8000 so far… concentrate on DEMONcRatic Regimes to uncover and expose 90% of ALL Defrauding Criminality. $50-100K for solid WhistleBlowers imho would so move the needle in this INFLATION REDUCTION ACT world. FightOn ????????????
I have long wondered how a citizen group can so fool the departments of medicare and medicaid, but even I see it often. Maybe the rules are so lax, almost any school drop-out can cheat the system. But for the most part it is on the grand scale, like a certain group, aiming to fraud the USA. And, my how they have succeeded. What a world, while our own citizens wait for justice, which has been so slow.
Speaking of Pam Bondi, I have not read the “low down”, on her dismissal, I am saddened by her departure, because I know she did a fantastic job in FLORIDA. I think she needs forgiveness and RECONSIDERATION, in her political endeveaurs. I know nothing of her personally, just really liked the job she did here in Florida.
May Todd perish lol