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Agency official announces National Fraud Enforcement Division to fight taxpayer fraud
Summary
An agency official announced today the creation of a National Fraud Enforcement Division, described as a centralized unit to investigate and prosecute fraud against taxpayer dollars; the speaker said every U.S. Attorney's Office will join and cited an "additional 93 prosecutors," a phrasing not further clarified in the transcript.
An agency official announced today the creation of the National Fraud Enforcement Division, a centralized unit intended to investigate and prosecute fraud against taxpayer dollars. "I'm proud to announce in greater detail the creation of the National Fraud Enforcement Division," the official said.
The official said the division's core mission will be "to zealously investigate and prosecute those who steal taxpayer dollars and rip off the American people," and described plans to combine expertise in healthcare fraud, tax fraud, benefits fraud and corporate fraud under one roof. The official said the effort will include staff "who join this new division" drawn from some of the department's best prosecutors.
The speaker said every U.S. Attorney's Office across the country "will also be joining this re-energized fight against fraud." The official added, "in pure numbers, that there will be an additional 93 prosecutors in every district across the country devoted to the mission of combating fraud with the National Fraud Enforcement Division." The transcript records that phrasing but does not specify whether the figure refers to 93 prosecutors total distributed among districts, 93 per district, or another allocation; the article quotes the speaker verbatim because that distribution detail was not clarified in the remarks.
Addressing new division staff, the official pledged departmental backing and resources: "you will have the entire department's support ... We will spare no resources ... in giving you the tools that you need to bring strong cases and do justice." The announcement in the transcript is a public policy statement and contains no recorded formal vote or implementing motion.
The transcript does not identify the speaker by name or specify which agency or department the speaker represents; the article therefore uses the label "agency official" in keeping with the record. The remarks are timestamped in the transcript as "today," and no calendar date was provided in the text excerpt.
