American universities are facing another threat from the Trump administration, which intends to use a civil anti-fraud law to ...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum titled Civil Rights Fraud Initiative announcing the Department of ...

On May 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the launch of a Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, which will use the False Claims ...

Institutions that take federal money only to allow anti-Semitism and promote divisive DEI policies are putting their access ...

President Trump’s political appointees at the department cited antisemitism on campuses as justification for using the law, ...

The Justice Department will use a law typically used to punish corrupt recipients of federal funding to pressure universities ...

The Trump administration wants to use the False Claims Act, a law meant to target fraud by government contractors and federal ...

American defense contractor L3 Technologies Inc. will pay tens of millions in fines after admitting to submitting a slew of ...

The False Claims Act will be enforced “when a federal contractor or recipient of federal funds knowingly violates civil rights laws,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says in a memo.

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