Overview
- McDonald, a federal prosecutor confirmed by the Senate on March 25, was sworn in Wednesday as assistant attorney general for National Fraud Enforcement.
- He will lead the Justice Department’s new anti-fraud division and serve as a key part of Vice President JD Vance’s national fraud task force.
- Vance said the department had long ignored smaller-dollar scams and promised McDonald would pursue fraud regardless of scale.
- President Donald Trump created the new division and a related task force earlier this year after high-profile Minnesota cases, with some reports citing about $9 billion in losses and roughly 50 convictions.
- McDonald previously worked as a top aide to senior DOJ leadership and as a federal prosecutor, and Vance described him as central to the administration’s War on Fraud.