The Trump administration is going after people defrauding the federal government, bigly. And by defrauding the federal government, well, we can take that to mean “stealing from us, the taxpayers.” The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a new branch, the National Fraud Enforcement Division, and they are already on the prowl, with a West Coast Task Force looking into fraud accusations in Arizona, Nevada, and northern California.
A DOJ press release stated the following and then proceeded to provide a number of examples of massive fraud already uncovered:
Let’s hope this fraud task force is just the first of many more to be formed. Already the DOJ has uncovered hundreds of millions in fraud – read as ‘theft of tax dollars from American taxpayers’. Imagine if we times these existing cases by the thousands; there is a potential that trillions of dollars in fraud has occurred. Imagine what better uses for that money we could put it to – or better yet, maybe not spend it at all.
