New U.S. Attorney General Targets Fraud Cases

Articles | April 8, 2026 | by Catholics for Catholics

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Blanche praised Bondi’s ‘vision and commitment to justice’ while signaling continuity in fraud enforcement

By Catholics for Catholics

Pam Bondi, the former U.S. Attorney General may be out, but her new replacement said he is not wasting any time investigating fraud cases.

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche revealed that the Justice Department is probing more than 8,000 fraud cases, which he said denote over $1 trillion in taxpayer funds possibly stolen each year by “increasingly sophisticated and opportunistic fraudsters,” according to a story by Fox News.

After former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s sudden ouster last week, Blanche stepped in. He said just a few of the fraud schemes being probed by the DOJ recently brought about a guilty plea by fraudsters for “stealing over half a billion dollars from taxpayers.” He noted that the 8,000 cases “represent a fraction of the fraud ripping off our country every day.”

Blanche said the new DOJ National Fraud Enforcement Division will “work closely” with the Vice President JD Vance-led Task Force to Eliminate Fraud to pursue a “comprehensive and coordinated approach” to investigating fraud.

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“Because of this administration’s leadership, fraudsters, scammers, tax cheats or anyone who lies to get rich off the generosity of the American people should be on notice,” he said, noting, “Our goal is to prevent this from ever happening again.”

Blanche said, “Every day, Department of Justice investigators and prosecutors work to punish those who commit fraud.”

“For example, just this week, and it’s only Tuesday, a criminal defendant was sentenced, and the department obtained two additional guilty pleas and matters totaling over half 1 billion dollars in health care and COVID fraud,” he said. “If you think about that, just since yesterday, we had a guilty plea in a $160 million health care enrollment fraud scheme, a sentencing in a $100 million COVID-19 fraud case, and a guilty plea in a $160 million health care fraud scheme as well.”

Blanche added that the DOJ is “supercharging” its attempts through the new division, involving every U.S. attorney across the country in endeavors to “take down every fraudster and bring them to justice.”