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Disaster Fraud Task Force Report, 2011

August 16, 2012
Disaster Fraud Task Force Report, 2011

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The Department of Justice's First-Ever Learning Agenda Released as Part of Strategic Plan

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Courtesy of Vanita Gupta, Associate Attorney General
As part of our new Strategic Plan , we have just released the Department’s first-ever Learning Agenda . Over the coming months and years, the Learning Agenda will drive new investments in research, evaluation, data science, statistical analysis, and other forms of scientific evidence building. We will use the results of this work to make evidence-based, data-driven decisions affecting many of the Department’s highest-priority policies and programs, as envisioned by the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 .
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Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta Releases Memo on Implementation and Administrative Enforcement of Title VI and Safe Streets Act

June 23, 2022
Courtesy of Vanita Gupta, Associate Attorney General
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This Week at DOJ, March 15, 2019

March 15, 2019
Highlight of the Week On Tuesday, dozens of individuals involved in the largest ever nationwide college admissions scam were arrested by federal agents in multiple states. The conspiracy involved cheating on college entrance exams and securing the admission of students to elite universities as purported athletic recruits through bribery and fraud. Those implicated ranged from CEOS, actresses, college exam administrators, and athletic coaches from Yale, Stanford, USC, Wake Forest and Georgetown.
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