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California Rep. Ken Calvert this weekannounced a bill to require prison timeof at least one year for fraud involving between $1 million and $5 million, and at least five years for fraud exceeding $5 million.
Good: Mandatory prison time for fraudsters is a sound idea.
While the federal government does impose minimum sentences for some forms of fraud, schemes that target federal health-care programs –– i.e., many cases in the news today –– generally don’t carry minimum jail terms.
Such minimums would give the feds another tool in the fight against fraud.
Mandatory jail time would ensure consequences, deliver some measure of justice, and boost deterrence for would-be grifters going forward.
No longer would brazen thieves plunder taxpayers with so little fear of repercussions that they scarcely cover their tracks.
Basic minimums would also ensure baseline equal justice for fraudsters, at a time when politicians, ideology, and activist judges have eroded public confidence in the judicial system.
And more prosecutions are coming.
In recent months, the Trump administration has unleashed a coast-to-coast crackdown on fraud, with a focus on those who abuse federal health care programs for the poor and the elderly.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
