Dear Jared et al - the Attorney General Announces Task Force to Combat COVID-19 Fraud
The Department of Justice will use every available federal tool - including criminal, civil, and administrative actions - to combat and prevent COVID-19 related fraud....
this is a very long time coming - if you recall the numerous House Oversight investigations, particularly the investigations into Jared Kushner’s inexplicable contract awards etc 1234
augment and incorporate the existing coordination mechanisms within the Department and will continue to work in close coordination with other efforts underway throughout the federal government.
It will work closely with the Department’s interagency partners to share information and insights gained from prior enforcement experience, in order to reduce the potential threat to the American people and COVID-19 relief, and will help agencies tasked with administering these significant relief programs increase their fraud prevention efforts by providing any appropriate information law enforcement learns about fraud trends and illicit tactics.
bolster efforts to investigate and prosecute the most culpable domestic and international criminals, prevent the exploitation of government assistance for personal and financial gain, and recover stolen funds.
Attorney General Garland’s 3 page Memo
This whole-of-government enforcement approach is refreshing. It is also paramount that the task force main goal is to protect the various COVID-19 relief programs. As these programs have a dual role as it relates to the health and welfare of Americans. This cross agency task force is reminiscent of (then) VP Biden’s TARP - which had minimal fraud and helped claw us out of the financial mess. By using the whole-of-Governmentt approach, this will thwart the efforts of fraudsters/charlatans/grifters endeavors to use the pandemic (and relief programs) as an opportunity to unjustly enrich themselves.
Department of Justice has led an historic enforcement initiative to detect and disrupt COVID-19 related fraud, charging nearly 600 defendants to date with crimes involving over $600 million in 56 federal districts around the country.
Those intent on unlawfully profiting from the pandemic have capitalized on scarcity to peddle fake vaccines and sell millions of counterfeit N95 masks and other personal protective equipment to heath care facilities desperate to protect frontline workers.
SBA/PPP Fraudulent Loans: inflated their payrolls to obtain loans larger than they were eligible to receive. They have used shell companies and received assistance that they unlawfully diverted. They have set up operations to submit identical loan applications in the names of multiple companies
WHOA - take a look at the components of the new Task Force5:
The Task Force will bring together the full power of the federal government to bolster our enforcement efforts. Within the Department, the Task Force will include heads of litigating components, United States Attorneys, the Executive Office of United States Attorneys, the Federal Bureau oflnvestigation, the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), the Department of Justice Inspector General, the National Unemployment Insurance Fraud Task Force, and INTERPOL Washington, or their designees. The Task Force will be led and organized by the Deputy Attorney General.
The entire DC Alphabet Soup and then some
…offices of Inspectors General for the Department of Labor, the Department of the Treasury, the Small Business Administration, the Depaiiment of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and the Federal Reserve Board; the Defense Criminal Investigative Service; the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Criminal Investigations; Homeland Security Investigations; IRS-Criminal Investigation; the U.S. Postal Inspection Service; the U.S. Secret Service; the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; the Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Relief; and the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC).
See the red box on page 3 of the AG’s memo?
The Task Force will enhance our public awareness campaign to educate individuals and businesses about the threat of COVID-19 related fraud, how Americans can take steps to protect themselves, and how whistleblowers can report corporate fraud.
Say what you want about my Twitter account but the amount of data, research and actual original documents. The only goal was to make sure my readers had the actual facts, reports and other legal filings - and my reward? Getting harassed both online and in real life. Because a few accounts didn’t like ability to call bullshit on their insane QANON-for-the-Left Le Garbage disinformation and misinformation. Those who defend their indefensible actions - how sad that you don’t know that you are fully indoctrinated cult members; Spoiler you have believing accounts that have made INSANE predictions, withhold documents and the falsity of their “deets” and “booms” are incontrovertible bullshit.
I use to follow these charlatans and then I realized what a complete fraud and agents of disinformation that they are. Hence why I enjoy this platform - I like to think it’s where intelligent adults go to discuss issues and even if you don’t agree with their point of view, you can respectfully agree to disagree.
April 2020 Archived Twitter Thread - because nothing says Trump-Barr DOJ like - anti-trust is so 2015 - literally over a year ago; http://web.archive.org/web/20200405212215/
Exciting and welcome news. I have to remind myself that Biden has been President for 4 months and Garland has been on the job since March. Considering that, they’re moving at light speed. Yippee!
Even as a little old lady in ND I knew you were an account heads above any other twitter acct. Your work belongs on a respectable outlet, not twitter. Your proof and factual reporting shed light on the posers. Thank you so very much! Now, wasn't pillow guy selling some product that is going to get him caught up in this as well?
Exciting and welcome news. I have to remind myself that Biden has been President for 4 months and Garland has been on the job since March. Considering that, they’re moving at light speed. Yippee!
Even as a little old lady in ND I knew you were an account heads above any other twitter acct. Your work belongs on a respectable outlet, not twitter. Your proof and factual reporting shed light on the posers. Thank you so very much! Now, wasn't pillow guy selling some product that is going to get him caught up in this as well?