A Sept. 14 story by Real Raw News claims a top U.S. cabinet official has been taken into custody.
“Investigators from the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Division (CID) on Tuesday arrested Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen at a Maryland hotel,” the story says. “Yellen was shown a military arrest warrant charging her with treason and defrauding the United States of America before being shuttled to a processing center for interrogation.”
The post was shared more than 400 times on Facebook in one week, according to social media analytics tool CrowdTangle.
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There are no credible reports of Yellen being arrested. She is still listed as the secretary of the U.S. Treasury and has made several public appearances since the date of her purported arrest. The article was published by Real Raw News, which routinely publishes false claims about the arrests of high-profile figures.
Thomas Hamilton, a spokesperson for the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division, told USA TODAY the claim was false.
"The Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division did not arrest the U.S. secretary of the treasury," he said in an email.
Yellen, in office since 2021, has made multiple public appearances and remarks in the week since the article purports she was arrested.
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