WATCH: JD Vance Tells Nick Shirley that Prosecutions for Fraud Schemes Are Imminent After He Takes Lead as Anti-Fraud Task Force Chair
Vice President JD Vance recently revealed that the federal government is moving quickly on prosecuting fraud and that a “significant ramp-up in the number of prosecutions” is expected “in a matter of months” during an interview with investigative reporter Nick Shirley.
Shirley previously uncovered billions of dollars in federal funds being stolen through Somali fraud schemes involving Minnesota daycare centers, bringing a spotlight on the mass abuse of welfare fraud in blue states across the country.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump named Vance the chairman of the White House’s new anti-fraud task force last week, along with Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, who will serve as Vice Chairman.
President Trump announced during his State of the Union Speech last month that Vice President Vance would lead his administration’s “war on fraud.”
Vance told Shirley that under his leadership, the task force will coordinate with the Department of Justice and other agencies to bust fraud rings, unlike what has been done in the past. He further explained that the Department of Justice now has, for the first time, a "committed Anti-Fraud Task Force" and a "committed assistant attorney general who's focused on the fraud issue."
Collin McDonald, who was confirmed by the Senate this week to be the Assistant Attorney General (ASG) for fraud enforcement, will be sworn in next week, and "the plan is we got to start doing prosecutions as quickly as possible," said Vance.
"I think in a matter of months, we should be seeing a significant ramp-up in the number of prosecutions that we're seeing," he added.
WATCH:
Shirley: Now that we have the fraud task force here inside the United States, what are we going to be doing different than something that we haven't done before, to tackle fraud here?
Vance: Well, two really big things, Nick. So, first of all is we're going to be coordinating across the government in a way that's really never been done before to focus on anti-fraud. So, let's say, for example, that Scott Bessent or somebody at the Secretary of Treasury's office sees a fraudulent payment made, but it's not, you know, it's not at the Treasury Department, It's at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid. There's going to be coordination now so that when one person in the government sees fraud happening, they're actually telling everybody else, so that we can get to the root of it and hopefully prosecute it.
And that leads me to my second point, and maybe the most important is we've never before within the Department of Justice had a committed Anti-Fraud Task Force, a committed assistant attorney general who's focused on the fraud issue. What our new AAG focused on fraud has told me, that right now, we don't even prosecute fraud that's under $1.5 million, which means there's a lot of fraudsters who never get caught, who never get punished. We're changing that too.
Shirley: There's people who are making $1.5 million, committing fraud, and they used to not be prosecuted. When can we expect to see prosecutions take place, for instance, for example, like the leaders at the leering center?
Vance: So, we just got AAG, our new AG, confirmed. He hasn't even been sworn in yet. I'll swear him in next week, actually. And look, I think the plan is we got to start doing prosecutions as quickly as possible. These cases take a little while to build. You've got to investigate, you've got to gather evidence.
But now that we have that guy set up, now that we have Colin McDonald set up, I think in a matter of months, we should be seeing a significant ramp up in the number of prosecutions that we're seeing.
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