White House, Senate Democrats unveil bill to battle pandemic aid fraud

Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping, roughly $1.3 billion bill that would expand the federal government’s powers to find and prosecute pandemic fraud, as Washington scrambles to recover the federal aid stolen by scammers during the worst economic crisis in a generation. The measure, which would deliver on an earlier budget request from President Biden, arrived as the Justice Department announced that its efforts to date had resulted in charges against more than 3,500 defendants and the seizure or forfeiture of more than $1.4 billion in illegally obtained coronavirus...