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President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice just got a leader to oversee its newly created unit to prosecute fraud, and it so happens he’s from California, which has been making headlines for its alleged fraud cases. The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed Colin McDonald, an associate deputy general at the Justice Department, 52 to 47 to be in charge of the DOJ’s new fraud division. The division is part of a broader attempt by the Trump administration to declare “war on fraud” that was exposed in Minnesota and could also appear in California. “Similar schemes are now surfacing within California’s...

In a Jan. 28 announcement on Truth Social, Trump named Colin McDonald as the first-ever Assistant Attorney General for National Fraud Enforcement, a brand-new division at the Department of Justice created to hunt down, expose, and prosecute the fraud networks that have been bleeding American taxpayers dry for years. “I created this Division to catch and stop FRAUDSTERS that have been STEALING from the American People,” Trump wrote, pointing to massive schemes recently uncovered in states like Minnesota and California that he says have siphoned off hundreds of billions of dollars from public programs. This is not another symbolic task...