- A bipartisan alliance of AGs from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina have joined officials and federal agencies from across the Southeast region to launch the Southeast Fraud Enforcement Federal-State Partnership. The Justice Departments National Fraud Enforcement Division announced this new federal-state cooperation agreements with an event that brought together 18 U.S. Attorneys Offices, seven State AGs offices, five federal law enforcement partners, and over 50 state officials.
- The states and federal agencies are working closely with USDOJ’s National Fraud Enforcement Division to go after bad actors who commit fraud and scams to steal taxpayer dollars. The agreement will provide the Fraud Division access to publicly available corporate registration and public benefits payment data held by these state agencies. The data will help the Fraud Division identify connections and patterns across both business entities and public benefits payment activity in order to investigate largescale schemes.
- So far, the Justice Department has announced charges for 17 cases spanning the seven states involving over $350 million in intended losses and included cases involving SNAP benefits, small business administration loans, housing benefits, and tax fraud. The Division separately announced the formation of joint federal-state-anti-fraud task forces in North Carolina, Mississippi, and Florida.