Vice President JD Vance to lead nationwide anti-fraud effort with emphasis on blue states as federal investigations and prosecutions begin
President Donald Trump on Friday said Vice President JD Vance will focus on investigating fraud in Democratic-run states in his new role as “fraud czar.”
“His focus will be ‘EVERYWHERE,’ but primarily in those Blue States,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, singling out California, Illinois, Minnesota, Maine, and New York.
Trump said “raids have already started” in Los Angeles, where federal prosecutors announced on Thursday that eight people had been charged in separate cases for attempting to defraud the health care system out of $50 million.
Prosecutors said the cases were pursued in coordination with Vance’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud. Vance expanded on the arrests in a social media post Thursday, saying the “task force isn’t wasting any time cracking down on fraud.”
Trump signed an executive order last month launching a national task force led by Vance aimed at proving the president’s claims that federal funds intended for social-welfare programs are being stolen in some states.
