Trump announces Vances new job hours after Bondi | Political News

Donald Trump announced a new function for his Vice President, JD Vance, just hours after Pam Bondi was fired as Attorney General.

He wrote on Truth Social, “Vice President JD Vance is now in charge of “FRAUD” in the United States. It is massive and pervasive, and the job he will be doing, in conjunction with many great people within the Trump Administration, will be a major factor in how great the future of our Country will be.

“We will call him the “FRAUD CZAR,” and his focus will probably be “EVERYWHERE,” but primarily in those Blue States where CROOKED DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS, like those in California, Illinois, Minnesota (Somalia beware!), Maine, New York, and many others, have had a “free for all” in the unprecedented theft of Taxpayer Money. The numbers are so large that, if profitable, we might actually find a way to stability our American Budget. Raids have already began in L.A. Good Luck JD!”

It comes just hours after the president fired Pam Bondi and provided her a unspecified function in the personal sector.

Her contentious tenure of a loyalist who upended the Justice Department’s tradition of independence from the White House, oversaw large-scale firings of profession staff and moved aggressively to examine the Republican president’s perceived enemies.

The departure adopted months of scrutiny over the Justice Department’s handling of recordsdata associated to the Jeffrey Epstein intercourse trafficking investigation and failed efforts to meet Trump’s unwavering calls for for prison circumstances against his adversaries. As Trump’s own frustrations mounted, he started privately discussing firing Bondi, people acquainted with the matter say.

“Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year,” Trump said in a assertion. He added, “We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future.”

Trump named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, one of his former personal legal professionals, as the appearing attorney basic. Three people acquainted with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday that he has privately mentioned Lee Zeldin, the pinnacle of the Environmental Protection Agency, as a everlasting decide.

8 arrested in alleged health care fraud

Federal officers on Thursday arrested eight people they are saying have been concerned in numerous health care fraud schemes totaling $50 million in and around Los Angeles.

Five of the circumstances concerned hospice-care facilities in cities of Glendale, Artesia, Tarzana and Simi Valley in the Los Angeles space that allegedly billed Medicare for sufferers that weren’t terminally ailing and didn’t qualify for hospice companies, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. One particular person was arrested in Idaho and another in LA for allegedly defrauding a West Coast labor union’s health care plans. An extra particular person arrested in LA was accused of forging immigration medical paperwork.

The Trump administration has made California, and the Los Angeles space in explicit, a focus of its national anti-fraud efforts, alleging the Democratic-led state is failing to crack down on improper spending.