Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker Delivers Remarks to the Department of Justice Rural and Tribal Elder Justice Summit
Des Moines, IA ~ Wednesday, November 14, 2018
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Our goal is to reduce crime and protect America’s seniors. And we have good reasons to believe that our work with our law enforcement partners is reducing crime and having a real impact on the seniors of this country.
The Postal Inspection Service has estimated that payments by mass mail fraud victims to foreign post office boxes has dropped by 94 percent since 2016—from 150,000 per month to approximately 10,000 per month now.
There are many causes for that, but that is a remarkable achievement—and I want to thank everyone who has played a role in our efforts.
We are going to keep up this pace.
We are going to continue to provide our prosecutors and our state and local partners with the resources that they need. And we’re going to keep putting fraudsters in jail.
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