DOJ Announces $300M Funding for State and Local Prosecutors to Combat Fraud and Drug Trafficking
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The Justice Department announced the availability of $300 million in funding through the Special Attorneys Program to support state, local, Tribal, and territorial prosecuting agencies. The grant will fund qualified prosecutors to serve as Special Attorneys within DOJ's National Fraud Enforcement Division, Criminal Division, or as Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys within a U.S. Attorney's Office. The program is designed to strengthen investigative and prosecutorial capacity targeting fraud, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and crimes committed by criminal aliens.
“The Justice Department today announced the availability of $300 million in funding to prevent and prosecute fraud and other crimes nationwide.”
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The DOJ published a funding opportunity announcement for $300 million in grant funding available to state, local, Tribal, and territorial prosecuting agencies. The Special Attorneys Program will fund the designation of qualified prosecutors to serve as Special Attorneys within DOJ's National Fraud Enforcement Division, Criminal Division, or as Special Assistant U.S. Attorneys within U.S. Attorney's Offices. Eligible applicants may use funds to expand capacity for investigating and prosecuting fraud, drug and human trafficking, and crimes committed by criminal aliens.
State, local, Tribal, and territorial prosecutors' offices seeking to augment their fraud and drug trafficking enforcement capabilities should review the notice of funding opportunity and confirm eligibility prior to the application deadline. This announcement signals DOJ's intent to leverage intergovernmental coordination in criminal enforcement, and prosecuting agencies facing resource constraints may find this a timely funding mechanism.
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Justice Department Announces New Funding Opportunity to Prosecute Fraud, Drug Trafficking, and Other Crimes
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
Share For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs The Justice Department today announced the availability of $300 million in funding to prevent and prosecute fraud and other crimes nationwide. The new Special Attorneys Program notice of funding opportunity will support state, local, Tribal, and territorial prosecuting agencies in designating qualified prosecutors to serve as Special Attorneys within the Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division or Criminal Division, or as Special Assistant United States Attorneys within a United States Attorney’s Office.
This grant program will strengthen investigative and prosecutorial capacity, expand intergovernmental coordination, and enhance the ability of jurisdictions to investigate and prosecute fraud and other crimes committed by criminal aliens within the United States and drug and human trafficking crimes.
“This unprecedented funding opportunity is part of the Department of Justice’s historic effort to activate every available tool to secure the physical and financial security of our nation,” said Colin McDonald, Assistant Attorney General for the National Fraud Enforcement Division. “We invite prosecutors across the country to join the mission to eliminate fraud, defeat the drug cartels, and rescue victims of trafficking.”
Department of Justice efforts to combat fraud support President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs.
Updated April 22, 2026 Topic Fraud Components Criminal Division National Fraud Enforcement Division U.S. Attorneys (USAO) Press Release Number: 26-388
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