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Acting Attorney General Blanche Announces the Establishment of the National Fraud Enforcement Division, Apr. 7, 2026

April 7, 2026 · The Justice Department · 0:26:28

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What happened

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the establishment of the National Fraud Enforcement Division on April 7, 2026, published by the Justice Department the same day. In the department’s companion statement upload of the same announcement, Blanche stated the division’s mission: “Its core mission will be to zealously investigate and prosecute those who steal taxpayer dollars and rip off the American people.” The short statement upload is recorded in this site’s index as an alternate source, not a separate page.

Why it matters

Creating a dedicated National Fraud Enforcement Division inside the Justice Department is the departmental counterpart of the White House fraud task force the Vice President chairs — the new division is the enforcement home for the fraud crackdown, recorded here as the Acting Attorney General announced it, on the Fraud, Waste & Corruption hub.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard candidate: the establishment of the National Fraud Enforcement Division as announced is a dated, checkable department action. Flagged for the weekly editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, “Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Announces Establishment of National Fraud Enforcement Division,” April 7, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). This page is grounded in the department’s published description of the upload and the upload’s metadata.