DOJ Announces Southeast Fraud Crackdown Charging 12 Since July 4 With Over $90M Losses
The broadcast aired a live press conference from the Southeast Federal State Fraud Partnership Conference in Columbia, South Carolina. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald announced new federal-state partnerships, data-sharing agreements, task forces in several states, and recent charges against 12 defendants since July 4 in cases with over $90 million in intended losses as part of broader actions exceeding $350 million across 17 cases. Speakers including Governor Henry McMaster, South Carolina AG Alan Wilson, and multiple U.S. Attorneys highlighted specific prosecutions involving SNAP/EBT fraud in Florida, charter school embezzlement in Louisiana, fraudulent energy tax credits in Alabama, Medicare and other schemes, while stressing that fraud harms taxpayers and needy families and is not victimless. Officials drew parallels to past successful operations like 1980s "Operation Jackpot" and a recent $20M cross-border Medicaid case.
Source: Times Now World