Establishment of the Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud

Executive Order 13844 of July 11, 2018

Establishment of the Task Force on Market
Integrity and Consumer Fraud

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, and in order to strengthen the efforts of the
Department of Justice and Federal, State, local, and
tribal agencies to investigate and prosecute crimes of
fraud committed against the U.S. Government or the
American people, recover the proceeds of such crimes,
and ensure just and effective punishment of those who
perpetrate crimes of fraud, it is hereby ordered as
follows:

Section 1. Establishment. The Attorney General shall
establish within the Department of Justice a Task Force
on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud (Task Force).

Sec. 2. Membership and Operation. (a) The Task Force
shall include the following members:

(i) the Deputy Attorney General, who shall serve as the Chair;

(ii) the Associate Attorney General, who shall serve as the Vice Chair;

(iii) the Assistant Attorney General (Criminal Division);

(iv) the Assistant Attorney General (Civil Division);

(v) the Assistant Attorney General (Tax Division);

(vi) the Assistant Attorney General (Antitrust Division);

(vii) the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;

(viii) United States Attorneys designated by the Attorney General; and

(ix) such other officers or employees of the Department of Justice as the
Attorney General may from time to time designate.

    (b) The Deputy Attorney General shall convene and
direct the work of the Task Force in fulfilling its
functions under this order. The Deputy Attorney General
may permit, when appropriate, the designee of a member
of the Task Force, including participants invited under
section 3 of this order, to participate in lieu of the
member or participant. The Deputy Attorney General
shall convene the Task Force at such times as the
Deputy Attorney General deems appropriate.

Sec. 3. Additional Participation for Specified
Functions. In the Task Force's performance of the
functions set forth in subsection 4(a) and (c) of this
order, and to the extent permitted by law, the Attorney
General, or the Deputy Attorney General as his
designee, shall periodically convene meetings and shall
invite participation from the following senior
officials from executive departments and agencies
(agencies), or their designees, as well as such other
officials of the Federal Government as the Attorney
General or Deputy Attorney General deems appropriate:

    (a) the Secretary of the Treasury;
    (b) the Secretary of Defense;
    (c) the Secretary of Health and Human Services;
    (d) the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development;
    (e) the Secretary of Energy;
    (f) the Secretary of Education;

    (g) the Secretary of Veterans Affairs;
    (h) the Secretary of Homeland Security;
    (i) the Administrator of the Small Business
Administration;
    (j) the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System;
    (k) the Commissioner of Social Security;
    (l) the Administrator of the United States Agency
for International Development;
    (m) the Director of the Bureau of Consumer
Financial Protection;
    (n) the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission;
    (o) the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange
Commission;
    (p) the Administrator of General Services;
    (q) the Chairman of the National Credit Union
Administration;
    (r) the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission;
    (s) the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;
    (t) the Director of the Federal Housing Finance
Agency;
    (u) the Comptroller of the Currency; and
    (v) the Chief Postal Inspector for the Postal
Inspection Service.

Sec. 4. Functions. Consistent with the authorities
assigned to the Attorney General by law, and other
applicable law, the Task Force shall:

    (a) provide guidance for the investigation and
prosecution of cases involving fraud on the government,
the financial markets, and consumers, including cyber-
fraud and other fraud targeting the elderly, service
members and veterans, and other members of the public;
procurement and grant fraud; securities and commodities
fraud, as well as other corporate fraud, with
particular attention to fraud affecting the general
public; digital currency fraud; money laundering,
including the recovery of proceeds; health care fraud;
tax fraud; and other financial crimes;
    (b) provide recommendations to the Attorney General
on fraud enforcement initiatives across the Department
of Justice and on any matters the Task Force determines
from time to time to be important in the investigation
and prosecution of fraud and other financial crimes;
and
    (c) make recommendations to the President, through
the Attorney General for:

(i) action to enhance cooperation among agencies in the investigation and
prosecution of fraud and other financial crimes;

(ii) action to enhance cooperation among Federal, State, local, and tribal
authorities in connection with the detection, investigation, and
prosecution of fraud and other financial crimes; and

(iii) changes in rules, regulations, or policy, or recommendations to the
Congress regarding legislative measures, to improve the effective
investigation and prosecution of fraud and other financial crimes.

Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

    (b) This Task Force shall replace the Financial
Fraud Enforcement Task Force created by Executive Order
13519 of November 17, 2009 (Establishment of the
Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force). The Financial
Fraud Enforcement Task Force is hereby terminated
pursuant to section 8 of Executive Order 13519 and that
order is hereby revoked.

    (c) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
    (d) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

Sec. 6. Termination. The Task Force shall terminate
when directed by the President or, with the approval of
the President, by the Attorney General.

    (Presidential Sig.)

THE WHITE HOUSE,

    July 11, 2018.