{"id":5492,"date":"2026-10-02T19:25:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/doj-expands-nationwide-crackdown-on-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:25:52","slug":"doj-expands-nationwide-crackdown-on-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/doj-expands-nationwide-crackdown-on-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Expands Nationwide Crackdown on Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 October 2, 2026 (STL.News) The U.S. Department of Justice is intensifying a nationwide campaign against fraud, unveiling new corporate enforcement priorities as federal prosecutors announce convictions, guilty pleas and criminal charges involving government programs, health care, banks and other financial schemes across the country. The Justice Department\u2019s National Fraud Enforcement Division, a unit created earlier this year and headed by Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald, is spearheading the expanded effort. McDonald issued a new enforcement directive Oct. 1 instructing Fraud Division prosecutors to take what the department calls an \u201caggressive, all-tools approach\u201d toward four major<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/doj-expands-nationwide-crackdown-on-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 October 2, 2026 (STL.News) The U.S. Department of Justice is intensifying a nationwide campaign against fraud, unveiling new corporate enforcement priorities as federal prosecutors announce convictions, guilty pleas and criminal charges involving government programs, health care, banks&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5494,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5492\/revisions\/5494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}