Inside The DOJ Roundtable That’s Quietly Uniting Seven States Against Fraud

Daily Caller ^ | 7/31/26 | Reagan Reese

[CFW]

More than 50 officials from seven southeastern states convened Thursday to sign a data-sharing agreement with the Department of Justice aimed at rooting out fraud.

Across the seven states, officials have uncovered roughly $350 million in alleged fraud, according to information shared with the Daily Caller. Under the Memorandum of Understanding signed Thursday, the states will give the DOJ access to “publicly available corporate registration and public benefits payment data held by these state agencies.” It is data officials said will help the department spot fraud patterns faster.

Colin McDonald, assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division, met with dozens of state officials before his press conference to discuss their work and how the federal government could better support it. The Daily Caller was the only outlet allowed in the room.

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Over the hour-and-a-half meeting, which ran past its scheduled end, officials walked through the progress they’d made uncovering fraud in their states. North Carolina asked for “department-wide access to advanced data analytics tools” to help farm data. They called on Congress to help combat fraud. Others described working across party lines, and some revealed how gangs are using fraud schemes to recruit teenagers.

Mississippi used the meeting to announce a new fraud task force, made possible by a grant program the DOJ unveiled. It is the first such federal grant awarded. The room traded notes on how other states could tap the same program.

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KEYWORDS: conservatives; corruption; doj; fraud

[CFW]

I read the article twice looking for which seven states had partnered with the DOJ on this initiative. You'd think that would be in the first paragraph. Nope. No where to be found.

I did find the info elsewhere. The states are South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. Just think of how much money this program will save those states. Another benefit might be that the fraudsters leave the south and move up north where stealing is not frowned upon and instead made easier.

[for-q-clinton]

Yep...journalists suck nowadays.

BTW: it irritates me that the blue states WANT the fraud! They make money off it too via reimbursement from the feds...they don’t care if it’s fraud...just puts more money in their local economy.

[GOPJ]

bump for later

[HYPOCRACY]

Governors of blue states should all be arrested for aiding and abetting fraud. Nobody is above the law. Start with the two pigs in NY and NJ.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Sad to see Minnesota is not included.

[spintreebob]

FL,GA, LA have Deloitte IES Integrated Eligibility System. Over 25 states ... CA TX IL MI PA NY, etc all the big states ... have Deloitte. Deloitte is the #1 fraudster and its IES the fraud that makes much of the other fraud possible.

(To my knowledge SC, NC, AL, MS (and MN) are not big on Deloitte.)

GAINWELL, OPTUM, GDIT are the other big IT VENDORs for Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, WIC, TANF, Sec8, LIHEAP, etc.
Their big FWA FRAUD WASTE ABUSE is in receiving and processing Deloitte garbage data.

[spintreebob]

Deloitte IES, the single biggest fraud, is in over 25 states ... all the big states ...
both Blue CA IL MI PA NY and Red TX FL GA. Welfare FRAUD is a SWAMP problem ... not a Red/Blue problem.

[for-q-clinton]

And California!

[HYPOCRACY]

Well the Governors from red states are cooperating and helping. Arrest governors who are hindering for obstruction of justice.