National Fraud Enforcement Division: A dangerous escalation of compliance risk
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Jaclyn Jaeger2026-01-29T16:39:00
Chief compliance officers and general counsel, beware: The Trump administration’s merging of its whole-of-government enforcement approach with its political agenda forewarns of escalating compliance risk on a national scale.
On Jan. 8, President Donald Trump — not the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)— announced the establishment of a National Fraud Enforcement this Division. In a press briefing that same day, Vice President J.D. Vance said a newly appointed Assistant Attorney General (AAG), to be cherry picked by President Trump and confirmed by the Senate, will have “nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud.”
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