2026年4月22日 / 美国东部时间晚上8:47 / 哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）新闻
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莎拉·N·林奇 司法部高级特派记者
莎拉·N·林奇是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻驻华盛顿特区的司法部高级特派记者。
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莎拉·N·林奇
据哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）获得的一份备忘录显示，美国司法部全国欺诈执法部门负责人于周三指示所有联邦检察官办公室，指派一名当地检察官“轮岗支援”今年早些时候成立的华盛顿总部部门。
在这份备忘录中，助理司法部长科林·麦克唐纳表示，从每个联邦检察官办公室调派检察官，旨在帮助“实施全国性战略，消除各地区的欺诈行为”，并“依靠当地联邦助理检察官在本地区起诉、支持并咨询欺诈部门的诉讼案件，以提升效率和办案效果”。
备忘录称，自7月1日起，所有调派至新部门的检察官，未经欺诈部门事先批准，不得承接任何新工作或案件。
这种不同寻常的人员安排公布的前一天，美国司法部邀请州和地方政府申请3亿美元拨款，用于临时雇佣当地检察官。这些检察官将以联邦助理检察官的身份在欺诈部门任职，重点打击涉及非法居留人员的公共福利欺诈计划。
此次调整正值美国司法部整体人员——包括众多联邦检察官办公室——因大规模人员离职和招聘新律师困难而捉襟见肘之际。许多联邦检察官办公室还需要处理大量由移民提交的人身保护令申请，这些移民因特朗普政府的大规模拘留政策而被逮捕。
与此同时，特朗普政府已将调查重点放在明尼苏达州和加利福尼亚州等地的政府福利项目欺诈案件上。
代理司法部长托德·布兰奇本月早些时候在一场新闻发布会上表示，新成立的欺诈部门将主要通过整合司法部内部多个负责刑事欺诈案件的办公室组成，这些案件主要涉及医疗保健、税务、福利和企业领域的欺诈行为。
布兰奇还暗示，新部门将接受来自白宫的刑事调查转介——这与水门事件后确立的以往惯例相悖，当时的惯例旨在使刑事调查免受政治干预。
DOJ orders U.S. attorney’s offices to assign 1 prosecutor in each district to staff new fraud division, memo says
April 22, 2026 / 8:47 PM EDT / CBS News
By Sarah N. Lynch
Sarah N. Lynch Senior Justice Department Reporter
Sarah N. Lynch is the senior Justice Department reporter for CBS News, based in Washington, D.C.
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The head of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division on Wednesday directed all U.S. attorneys’ offices to assign a local prosecutor to serve “in place” in support of a Washington-based office created earlier this year, according to a memo obtained by CBS News.
In the memo, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald said detailing a prosecutor from each U.S. attorney’s office aims to help “execute a nationwide strategy to eliminate fraud in every district” and “increase efficiency and efficacy by relying on local AUSAs to prosecute, support and consult on Fraud Division litigation in their district.”
Beginning July 1, each prosecutor detailed to the new office should not be assigned any new work or cases without prior approval from the fraud division, the memo said.
The unusual staffing arrangement was announced one day after the Justice Department invited state and local governments to apply for $300 million in grants to hire local prosecutors on a temporary basis. They would serve in the fraud division as special assistant U.S. attorneys, focusing on public benefit fraud schemes involving people living in the country illegally.
The move also comes as staffing levels across the Department of Justice — including many U.S. attorney’s offices — have been stretched thin by widespread departures and difficulties in hiring new attorneys. Many U.S. attorney’s offices have also been contending with a flood of habeas petitions by immigrants who have been swept up in the Trump administration’s mass detention policy.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has focused on pursuing fraud investigations involving government benefit programs in places such as Minnesota and California.
Acting Attorney GeneralTodd Blanche said at a news conference earlier this month that the new fraud division would primarily be staffed by combining various offices within the department that handle mostly criminal fraud involving health care, taxes, benefits and corporations.
Blanche also suggested the new division would be open to accepting criminal referrals from the White House — a departure from prior norms instituted after the Watergate scandal, which sought to insulate criminal investigations from political influence.
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