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Treasury has announced that it will offer cash rewards to whistleblowers related to the fraud investigations.
The official U.S. Department of the Treasury readout of Secretary Scott Bessent’s Minneapolis visit explicitly quotes him saying, in the context of combating the Somali fraud scheme and related government benefits fraud in Minnesota: “One [other] thing that we are going to announce is incentives for whistleblowers. If these fraudsters want to turn on each other, we welcome that. We will be offering cash rewards to whistleblowers.” This is presented as part of Treasury’s package of initiatives to dismantle the fraud scheme and protect taxpayers. Because Treasury’s own release describes Secretary Bessent announcing that Treasury will offer cash rewards to whistleblowers in connection with this fraud crackdown, the statement is accurate as written. Therefore, the verdict is True because the claim directly reflects the Treasury Secretary’s officially published remarks and their stated context in the anti-fraud effort.