The DOJ Announces 455 Defendants Charged in 45 States!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. The DOJ announces 455 defendants charged in 45 states. The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that 455 defendants have been charged with stealing over $6.5 billion via health care fraud schemes across 45 states. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the results. The DOJ's 2026 National Healthcare Fraud Takedown during a press conference on Tuesday credited the work to the greatest combined federal and state effort in combating healthcare fraud in history. Quote, this team is working tirelessly to take down fraudsters who steal from taxpayer-funded programs and prey on vulnerable Americans. Blanche further highlighted the nine, quote, healthcare fraud strike force, 57 U.S. Attorney's Offices, 41 Attorney General Offices, and multiple federal agencies were all involved in these busts. Today, we are here to announce the results of the 2026 National Healthcare Fraud Takedown. this announcement marks the greatest combined federal and state effort in combating health care fraud in history thanks to the leadership of president trump and the vice president and all those folks standing behind me and next to me we are more united than ever before this team is working tirelessly to take down fraudsters who steal from taxpayer-funded programs and prey on vulnerable Americans. When we talk about the team that's working on these cases, I want to give some context around that. There are nine healthcare fraud strike forces that have been part of this effort. 57 U.S. Attorney's Offices, 41 State Attorney General's Offices, not red states, not blue states but both working together with the federal government multiple law enforcement agencies including inspector generals some of the agencies that are that are here with me on this stage that's what we talk about when we say this is an all-government approach to combating fraud it's not just the department of justice it's not just hhs it's all government including with working with our state and local partners why doesn't anyone from the government or any government offices or state officials ever go to jail or ever get arrested it's always the little guy isn't it please give us a thumbs up folks i'm glad they are stopping all this fraud i just couldn't even imagine how much money has been wasted over the last 20 or 30 years please share and subscribe if you haven't and always remember that anything's possible in bizarro world