Tag: Michael Horowitz
U.S. Department of Justice has seized $1.4B in pandemic relief funds
A federal campaign to combat COVID-19 fraud resulted in 718 enforcement actions, including criminal charges against 371 defendants, for crimes related to...
Prosecutors, watchdogs want more time to prosecute pandemic fraud
Criminals made off with billions of dollars that lawmakers made available for pandemic unemployment insurance.
Government officials are now...
Watchdogs say unemployment fraud likely topped $191 billion
Slightly more than $1 out of every $5 distributed in unemployment insurance payments during the pandemic could have been improper, mostly fraud.
Donald Trump upends virus oversight, removing key official
The most recent act threatens to upend scrutiny of the $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue effort now underway.
House Republicans turn up the heat in standoff with DOJ
House Republicans escalated their monthslong standoff with the Justice Department, saying the FBI hasn’t adequately addressed bias within the agency and threatening to hold...
