Ohio, Feds Ramp Up Joint Fight Against Fraud
Last Thursday, members of President Donald Trump’s administration met in Columbus, Ohio, to discuss the Buckeye State’s ongoing fight against fraud.
Ohio is the first state in the country to share corporate registration records with the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Detection Center, granting investigators immediate access to important information. The announcements made last week highlighted how federal and state forces are working together in concert.
Nine defendants are being charged at the federal and state levels for allegedly defrauding the government to the tune of $42 million through Medicaid or COVID programs. In addition, the Small Business Administration announced the suspension of 27,486 Ohio borrowers connected to approximately $1.1 billion in suspected fraudulent Paycheck Protection Program and COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan activity.
A press release from the SBA called the suspension a “victory” for the White House task force on fraud. SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler praised the head of Trump’s anti-fraud task force by name, saying, “Vice President JD Vance’s leadership of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud represents a historic partnership that is delivering unprecedented wins in the fight to root out fraud and recover taxpayer dollars, while past administrations looked the other way at known criminal activity.”
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the partnership between Ohio and the federal government is “one that can serve as a template partnership for other states in this country.”
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