Bessent details efforts to reopen Strait of Hormuz, new fraud crackdown program
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is offering what could be big money for potentially "hundreds of billions" recouped from fraudsters emboldened during a Biden administration that unwound guardrails under the guise of COVID relief urgency, he told Fox News on Monday.
"We can pay up to a 30% reward for the recovered funds," Bessent told "Fox & Friends."
Bessent said fraudsters were let loose as a result of former President Joe Biden's administration reducing fraud controls to expedite hundreds of billions in pandemic-related funds out to Americans who needed it, and now the buck stops with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance as fraud czar.
"We are all hands on deck because this is money that is not going to where it's supposed to go, but more importantly, it's being stolen from the American taxpayer," Bessent said. "We need to be a high-trust society. We need to understand where the money is going."
"This could be hundreds of billions of dollars in recouped money," he noted.
Bessent's Treasury Department is now offering whistleblowers a major financial incentive to help expose fraud, directing would-be tipsters to the Treasury.gov website and saying the administration has already received more than 700 leads. Treasury’s whistleblower page says eligible tipsters can receive between 10% and 30% of monetary...
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