FBI Director Kash Patel is having fun on social media, with a video spotlighting how the FBI is taking down fraud, not just in Minnesota, but across the country.
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With President Trump’s leadership, this @FBI and our interagency partners are conducting massive fraud takedowns coast to coast – and we’re not stopping pic.twitter.com/lLAY4nSsQa
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) May 4, 2026
In April, Patel detailed the number of fraudsters the FBI took down in just a 24-hour period. RedState has reported on many of these fraud takedowns in detail, linked below.
The last 24 hours at this FBI:
• FBI Scam Center Takedown: 503 fraud websites dismantled, over $700 million in stolen crypto restrained, and thousands of trafficking victims freed from forced-labor compounds in Burma and Cambodia. Chinese nationals charged with running the…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 24, 2026
The last 24 hours at this FBI:
• FBI Scam Center Takedown: 503 fraud websites dismantled, over $700 million in stolen crypto restrained, and thousands of trafficking victims freed from forced-labor compounds in Burma and Cambodia. Chinese nationals charged with running the operations.
• Operation Gangsta’s Paradise: 37 Mexican Mafia members and associates arrested in pre-dawn raids across Orange County. Drug trafficking, racketeering, and murder charges. 10 more indictments handed down to La Eme members already in state prison.
• Houston synagogue plot disrupted: 18-year-old arrested in North Carolina and a 16-year-old in Texas charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder at Congregation Beth Israel, Texas’s oldest Jewish congregation. Tip came in Tuesday. Plot stopped.
• Maduro raid insider-trading case: Active-duty Green Beret Gannon Ken Van Dyke charged with using classified information to bet $33,000 on the Maduro capture operation, netting over $409,000 on Polymarket. Charges include commodities fraud, wire fraud, and theft of nonpublic government information.
• Denton County hostage rescue: FBI Hostage Rescue Team breached a home in Aubrey, Texas at 1 a.m. after a multi-day standoff. A young girl released safely the night before. The adult female victim rescued with only minor injuries. Suspect Michael Miller, 57, in custody on kidnapping, aggravated assault, and unlawful restraint.
The new agencies in the Department of Justice are also in coordination with the FBI to combat fraud. Namely, the National Fraud Enforcement Division, which recently opened offices on the West Coast to replicate the work done in Minnesota, and tee up the fraudsters for the FBI to arrest.
As my colleague Ward Clark wrote:
The Trump administration is going after people defrauding the federal government, bigly. And by defrauding the federal government, well, we can take that to mean “stealing from us, the taxpayers.” The Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched a new branch, the National Fraud Enforcement Division, and they are already on the prowl, with a West Coast Task Force looking into fraud accusations in Arizona, Nevada, and northern California.
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Patel is right to promote the changes he has instituted to the agency in turning its focus back to fighting crime. But it also magnifies the coordination with other DOJ agencies. This effort is meant to rebuild trust with the American people, showing that their tax dollars are now going toward combatting crime and corruption that affects Americans, not a blank check to third-world countries or foreign entities. As a late April press release detailed, one FBI raid focused on combatting international crime that specifically targeted the American consumer.
Unprecedented cooperation between the FBI, Dubai Police Department, and Chinese Ministry of Public Security has resulted in the arrest of at least 276 individuals and the dismantlement of at least nine scam centers used for cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes. These centers targeted Americans who have suffered millions of dollars in losses from such schemes.
Between the National Fraud Enforcement Division and Vice President JD Vance’s Fraud Elimination Task Force, these arms will keep the FBI busy and continue to render tangible results. Results that the American people can see and feel.
This matters, particularly as we move closer to the midterm elections. On Fox News “My View With Lara Trump,” she sat down with Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald, the head of the National Fraud Enforcement Division. McDonald affirmed that all of the DOJ is laser-focused on rooting out fraud and abuse across the country, in every corner of the U.S.
McDonald said:
“The estimates, the conservative estimates are somewhere around 230 billion dollars in fraud against the taxpayer every year. So, it is a mammoth problem that requires a mammoth response. And that includes the processes, the procedures, it includes the personnel. It includes our relationships with our state and local partners, to ensure that we have the capacity to truly reach all edges of our country, because the fraud is happening across the entire map.
“Just a couple of weeks ago, everyone did their civic duty, and they filed and they paid their taxes. And it cannot be that on April 15th, those taxes are paid, and on April 16th, those taxes are immediately exploited by those who see our government programs and government agencies as the softest target in their desire to have money and to get rich quick.”
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The robbing of the American people and the country’s purse must end.
That’s why the Fraud Division is here. pic.twitter.com/jgLM18t5av
— National Fraud Enforcement Division (@DOJFraudDiv) May 3, 2026
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