Expect Increased Enforcement Activities With DOJ's New Fraud Task Force

Megan Mocho Jeschke is a Partner in Holland & Knight's Tysons office

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the creation of a Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud. Relevant to the contracting and healthcare community, the task force is designed to strengthen the government's efforts to investigate and prosecute crimes of fraud committed against the U.S. Government. The task force will also focus on combating fraud against consumers, and in particular the elderly, service members and veterans.

Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein stated in public remarks that the task force will "focus on cases involving fraud against the government, the financial markets, and consumers; procurement and grant fraud; securities and commodities fraud; digital currency fraud; money laundering; healthcare fraud; tax fraud; and other financial crimes."