House passes bill to equip local law enforcement with scam-fighting tools
The Guarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception Act (GUARD) attempts to address a common complaint from the victims of online scams like pig butchering — that such cases typically do not rise to the level of a federal investigation but local law enforcement is unequipped to properly investigate them.
A bill that would free up federal funding to help local law enforcement investigate financial scams passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.
The Guarding Unprotected Aging Retirees from Deception Act (GUARD) attempts to address a common complaint from the victims of online scams like pig butchering — that such cases typically do not rise to the level of a federal investigation but local law enforcement is unequipped to properly investigate them.
The bipartisan bill introduced by Reps. Zachary Nunn (R-IA), Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) would allow law enforcement to use existing federal grant money to investigate cases involving financial fraud, including by hiring analysts and experts in such crimes.
Source: https://therecord.media/house-passes-bill-to-equip-local-law-enforcement-scams
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