DOJ Establishes National Fraud Enforcement Division

On April 7, acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a Memorandum outlining the structure and goals of the newly formed National Fraud Enforcement Division (Division) housed within the DOJ. This Division will consolidate a number of functions that were previously dispersed within the DOJ in an effort to more efficiently detect and prosecute persons defrauding the federal government. The Assistant AG for the Division will assume operational control of several units tasked with fraud enforcement, including the Health Care Fraud Control Unit. In addition, the Division will coordinate fraud enforcement efforts with other federal and state agencies, including the FBI, in an effort to recover monies fraudulently obtained from Medicare and other federal health care and non-health care programs.