Overview
- The division’s first comprehensive memo, circulated by Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald on Thursday, sets five priority focus areas: public trust, health care, internal revenue, global trade, and corporate misconduct.
- The plan commits new resources and technology to expand the Health Care Fraud Strike Force model, using data analytics to find billing outliers and prosecute large, systemic health-care schemes.
- The memo frames many cases as international conspiracies and singles out trade-related crimes such as illicit transshipment, country-of-origin fraud, customs undervaluation, sanctions evasion, and forced-labor schemes.
- Organizational changes include a West Coast task force launched in April and a goal to reach roughly 500 attorneys and staff soon, plus formal data-sharing pacts with multiple states to speed multi-district investigations and recover losses.
- The move responds to long-standing estimates of large annual fraud losses and signals faster, more coordinated prosecutions that will raise compliance and audit pressure on health providers, importers, tax preparers, and companies that work with federal funds.