DOJ's Colin McDonald on Taxpayer Fraud and Enforcement

To Colin McDonald. He is up at the microphone with the announcement.

Let's listen. Good afternoon. My name is Colin McDonald, Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division at the Department of Justice.

The sad truth confronting the United States is that criminals steal hundreds of billions of dollars every year from the taxpayer.

To put this crisis into perspective, more taxpayer dollars go to fraudsters every year than to most federal departments and agencies, including the combined budgets of the Departments of Energy, Justice, and Interior.

Hundreds of billions of dollars every single year taken by criminal actors, and there is no end to what the fraudsters will take.

No program is too noble or too compassionate for a fraudster.

No program is off-limits for a fraudster.

They will take from all of us until there is nothing left.

Fraud against the American taxpayer is a crisis of the first order.

President Trump, Vice President Vance, and Attorney General Blanche have taken this crisis head-on, resolved to protect the American taxpayer.

Under their leadership, the federal government has launched the most robust coordinated fraud-fighting effort the country has ever attempted, and those efforts are already bearing fruit for the American people.

In the one hundred and ninety days since Attorney General Blanche created the National Fraud Enforcement Division, the Department of Justice has announced over one thousand major fraud enforcement actions across the country.

Medicaid fraud, SNAP fraud, HUD fraud, Social Security fraud, SBA fraud, and the list goes on and on.

We are on the move to protect taxpayer dollars and our taxpayer-funded programs meant to help our elderly, our children, our sick, our hungry, and our homeless.