Trump’s fraud czar nominee touts Minnesota blueprint to root out Obamacare fraud, senior scams
The crackdown on fraud in Minnesota will serve as a blueprint for a new Department of Justice office focused on protecting taxpayer funds from scams, President Donald Trump's pick to...
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The crackdown on fraud in Minnesota will serve as a blueprint for a new Department of Justice office focused on protecting taxpayer funds from scams, President Donald Trump 's pick to serve as the nation's "fraud czar" explained in his nomination hearing Wednesday. "The work in Minnesota has been pivotal. The work of the U.S. Attorney's office there, and the personnel there, has been pivotal to highlighting the problems of fraud that permeate our taxpayer funded programs," nominee to serve as assistant attorney general for a new Justice Department division tasked with rooting out fraud, Colin McDonald, said Wednesday. "That sort of effort … is what the National Fraud Enforcement Division will be looking to do and scale to an extent that we've not seen before within the Department of Justice," he continued. Trump tapped McDonald as the nominee in January, just days after establishing the Department of Justice’s new division for national fraud enforcement that will "investigate, prosecute, and remedy fraud affecting the Federal government," according to the White House . The new office follows a sweeping Minnesota fraud scandal, where hundreds of millions of dollars was allegedly swindled from taxpayers through welfare and social services programs. DOGE’S MEDICAID DATA DUMP AIMS TO EXPOSE FRAUD — BUT PRIVACY AND LEGAL HURDLES LOOM "I will be working with the inspectors general community," McDonald continued. "With our federal agencies and federal partners, with our state and local partners to ensure that we find the fraud where it's occurring and that we have the resources to prosecute it, to investigate it and prosecute it, and ultimately ensure that the fraud that we're seeing annually, perpetrated against these programs comes to an end." McDonald appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning, where lawmakers grilled the nominee about the new office, how it will operate and if it will operate independently of the White House. Trump delivered his…