President Donald Trump’s administration created the Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division with a narrow focus on combating government program fraud, but a move to retain federal prosecutors focused on other types of fraud could signal a wider scope with potential ripple effects across white-collar enforcement.
“The transition alone will be distracting,” Bracewell’s Seth DuCharme told Law360.
“The clunkier the transition is, the more inefficiencies there could be in the use of resources,” he added.
