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COVID-19 Task Force Established to Enhance Enforcement Efforts against Fraud
On May 17, 2021, the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney General announced the establishment of the COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force, designed to coordinate DOJ resources across government agencies to combat COVID-19 related fraud.
The Attorney General identified three goals of the Task Force in the announcement: “(1) to identify cross-governmental resources, investigative techniques, and information for uncovering fraud schemes and the actors who perpetrate them; (2) to harness what [DOJ has] learned about COVID-19 related and other types of fraud from past efforts; and (3) to deter, detect, and disrupt future fraud wherever it occurs.”