{"id":691,"date":"2026-02-06T22:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2026-02-06T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:59:05","slug":"what-anti-fraud-action-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"What anti-fraud action looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Another day, another report of massive fraud against taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>Team Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/06\/us-news\/small-business-admin-uncovers-8-6-billion-in-fraud-in-ca\/\">revealed on Friday<\/a> that it\u2019s found $8.6 billion in shady COVID-era loans in the Golden State \u2014 and is acting to blunt the damage.<\/p>\n<p>This, just two days after White House announced that JD Vance <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/05\/opinion\/jd-vance-hunting-vice-in-california\/\">will chair a task force<\/a> to clean up fraud-riddled California.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to the White House for pushing hard to reveal, stop and punish fraud in a state with few controls on public spending.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"38414113\"><br \/>\n\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-plus\" fill=\"#fff\" viewbox=\"0 0 1033 1000\" width=\"1em\" height=\"1em\"><path d=\"M380 364V0h273v355h380v290H653v355H380V645H0V355h380v9z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/button><br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.24121212;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38414113\" width=\"732\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/2011-fbi-executing-search-warrants-38479905_ed582b.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"FBI agents carry boxes of evidence from Solyndra headquarters.\" 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74w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/2011-fbi-executing-search-warrants-38479905_ed582b.jpg?resize=99,80&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 99w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/2011-fbi-executing-search-warrants-38479905_ed582b.jpg?resize=1200,967&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/2011-fbi-executing-search-warrants-38479905_ed582b.jpg?resize=72,58&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 72w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/2011-fbi-executing-search-warrants-38479905_ed582b.jpg?resize=194,156&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 194w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/2011-fbi-executing-search-warrants-38479905_ed582b.jpg?resize=150,121&amp;quality=75&amp;strip=all 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Vice President Vance and Co. should keep pushing, digging and holding perpetrators accountable; taxpayers deserve no less.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s announcement included news that the Small Business Administration has suspended more than 111,000 borrowers alleged to have defrauded taxpayers during the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The accused swindlers improperly borrowed money under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, SBA administrator Kelly Loeffler said.<\/p>\n<p>Loeffler added that in San Diego alone, she found one address tied to 14 different \u201csmall businesses\u201d created during the pandemic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This entrepreneurial cluster collected more than $2 million in COVID loans that remain at least partially unrepaid, she said.<\/p>\n<p>These findings are but a sliver of the fraud that has spread through the state, causing what Loeffler dubbed \u201ca culture of fraud and abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The brazen scammers faced little \u2014 if any \u2014 accountability under the Biden administration in Washington or the Newsom administration in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Newsom ally, scoffed this week at the anti-fraud work of the Trump team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump claims, wrongly, California is perpetuating fraud when we are the victim,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/05\/us-news\/california-ag-rob-bonta-pushes-back-on-fraud-claims-as-trump-admin-hones-in-on-golden-state\/\">Bonta huffed on Thursday.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also called the anti-fraud push \u201cpartisan political theater,\u201d and an effort to \u201csow distrust\u201d in California government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But state government has done the latter all on its own.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the state has shoveled out tax dollars \u2014 often for feel-good, do-little pet causes or favored special interests \u2014 with few controls and little oversight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials such as Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom have focused on fighting President Trump and, especially in Newsom\u2019s case, prepping bids for higher office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a litany of state crises \u2014 from homelessness to water and energy shortages to yes, fraud \u2014 have festered and grown worse.<\/p>\n<p>Bonta\u2019s claim that California and\/or its elected officials are victims is laughable.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s obvious, but here we go: The victims of fraud are the taxpayers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his team understand that . . . which highlights a distinction between an administration that acts to protect taxpayers and another that never has.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/06\/opinion\/what-anti-fraud-action-looks-like\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another report of massive fraud against taxpayers. 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