Overview
- The National Fraud Enforcement Division, which reported results Friday, said arrests, pleas, convictions, and sentences in cases nationwide involved more than $340 million in losses or intended losses.
- Federal agents arrested five people in Kentucky, Indiana, and Colorado on charges tied to a plan to steal about $1.6 million in COVID‑19 relief funds.
- A Minneapolis defendant received a 43‑month sentence for the Feeding Our Future scheme that diverted child nutrition money during the pandemic, with other participants entering guilty pleas.
- Health care, tax, and benefit fraud featured heavily, including a St. Louis chiropractor ordered to repay $4.7 million to federal programs and a former San Diego teacher who admitted to laundering Medicare proceeds.
- The Justice Department launched the division on April 7 to centralize fraud enforcement and align criminal and civil tools with the administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, with further investigations continuing across the country.