On October 10, 2006, the National Procurement Fraud Task Force was created to promote the prevention, early detection, and prosecution of procurement fraud. Chaired by Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, the Task Force members include the FBI, the Department of Justice Inspector General and other federal Inspectors General, defense investigative agencies, federal prosecutors from United States Attorneys offices across the country, as well as the Antitrust, Civil, Criminal, Environmental & Natural Resources, National Security, and Tax Divisions of the Department of Justice. The Task Force focuses on civil and criminal enforcement where it has the greatest effect, including defective pricing, product substitution, misuse of classified and procurement sensitive information, false claims, grant fraud, labor mischarging, fraud involving foreign military sales, ethics and conflict of interest violations, and public corruption associated with procurement fraud. |
