On Oct. 20, Trump launched a program that pays up to $30,000 for a fraud.gov tip that leads to a conviction or a significant federal enforcement action. When more than one person claims the same tip, Trump said, “I will be the arbitrator of all these decisions.” At the same event, Trump handed a $10,000 check to Nick Shirley, the YouTuber whose video accused Somali-run childcare centers in Minnesota of fraud.

I put together 67 tips about Trump and the people he put in charge. Each one has a source link to paste into your report at america.gov/fraud. Your name is optional. I filed all 67 myself, and you’re welcome to file as many as your heart desires. If you file any, I’d love to hear which numbers in the comments.

I’m also sending this list to 10 friends, and I’m inviting you to consider texting or emailing it to 10 friends of your own. Ten forwards and a few reports seem like a nice use of a half hour to gum up the works.

Trump took out two Palm Beach mortgages seven weeks apart and called each home his principal residence. His administration accused Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook of fraud over the same kind of loans.
Trump dropped his lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “Anti-Weaponization Fund” that Justice Department appointees pay out to people they call victims of lawfare.
The same settlement ends the IRS audits of the Trump family’s filed returns. The New York Times reported the deal frees Trump from a possible penalty of more than $100 million in the audit of his Chicago tower losses.
Trump personally told his budget director to find money for TV ads praising him, and the budget office moved $20 million of Customs and Border Protection funds to pay for them.
Trump’s properties took in nearly $100,000 from the Secret Service in the first few months of this term.
The Air Force estimates the retrofit of the 747 Qatar gave Trump will cost less than $400 million in taxpayer money. Sources told ABC News the plane will go to Trump’s library foundation before he leaves office.
A firm tied to the UAE’s national security adviser bought a $500 million stake in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s crypto company, days before the inauguration. The Commerce Department later cleared G42, an AI company the adviser chairs, to buy up to 35,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips.
Abu Dhabi’s MGX paid for a $2 billion stake in Binance with World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin while Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff pushed AI chip sales to the UAE, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Chris Murphy wrote.
Witkoff’s family entities got at least $31 million from the same UAE-linked purchase of World Liberty, CNN reported.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, led by Trump appointee Paul Atkins, settled their fraud case against crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun for $10 million paid by one of his companies after Sun became the largest outside investor in World Liberty, at $75 million.
Buyers spent an estimated $148 million on Trump’s meme coin competing for seats at a private dinner with him.
Paramount paid Trump a $16 million settlement over a “60 Minutes” interview, and Brendan Carr’s Federal Communications Commission approved Paramount’s $8 billion merger with Skydance weeks later.
Carr later accepted Paramount gala seats valued at $125,000 per ticket.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro requested a $620 million Pentagon loan for Vulcan Elements, a magnet startup Donald Trump Jr.’s firm 1789 Capital had bought into months earlier, ProPublica reported.
Drone maker Unusual Machines, where Trump Jr. sits on the advisory board and reportedly holds a multimillion-dollar stake, won a $12.8 million Pentagon contract.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy holds primary-residence mortgages on two homes, in New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin holds primary-residence mortgages on two homes, on Long Island and in Washington, D.C.
Former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer took out two primary-residence mortgages in 2021. She resigned in April while the Labor Department’s inspector general was investigating reports that she used department money for personal trips.
The White House started a contest that gives Cabinet secretaries points for visiting swing districts, and Zeldin has made official, taxpayer-funded stops with five Republicans in tight races.
Border czar Tom Homan took $50,000 in cash in a Cava bag from an undercover FBI agent and promised immigration contracts once he joined the administration, two sources told Reuters. FBI Director Kash Patel ordered the case closed.
Patel used the FBI’s $60 million jet to see his girlfriend perform and to visit a Republican megadonor’s hunting resort.
Patel also assigned an FBI SWAT team of four agents and two vehicles to protect his girlfriend full time, The New York Times reported.
Then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s department handed Safe America Media a $143 million no-bid contract for the ad campaign that put her on horseback at Mount Rushmore.
The Coast Guard bought two Gulfstream jets for a little over $172 million for Noem and other top officials during last fall’s government shutdown, after budgeting for a single jet.
Trump donor Eric Deters told CBS News that then-Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle asked him to wire $100,000 to her American Express account so the money would stay off her financial disclosures.
Todd Blanche, now attorney general, disbanded the Justice Department’s crypto enforcement team while he still held Bitcoin worth between $100,000 and $250,000.
Then-Attorney General Pam Bondi sold $1 million to $5 million of Trump Media shares on the day Trump announced his tariffs, before the stock fell.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent kept as much as $25 million in farmland months past his ethics deadline while negotiating Chinese soybean purchases.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte’s agency set the budget of the inspector general’s office investigating him at $20 million, a 61% drop.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew with Kid Rock in Army Apache helicopters that cost about $7,000 an hour to fly, weeks after he shut down the Army’s inquiry into Apache flights near the singer’s home.
Pentagon official George Kollitides was still listed as an adviser to Alvarez & Marsal’s investment arm when his office gave the firm a no-bid consulting deal. The firm now holds almost $350 million in Pentagon contracts.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller held Palantir stock worth $100,001 to $250,000 while Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave Palantir a no-bid contract.
Agriculture Department appointee Michael Boren pushed for help with a small fire near his Idaho ranch, and the government sent about nine aircraft, costing nearly $115,000, The Washington Post reported.
The Government Accountability Office, Congress’s nonpartisan auditor, found that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, claimed $27.4 billion in savings that never happened.
Democratic staff on a Senate investigations subcommittee estimated DOGE wasted at least $21.7 billion, mostly by paying federal workers not to work.
The same staff found Musk and his companies faced $2.37 billion in potential federal penalties when DOGE began cutting the agencies pursuing them.
The SEC dropped their demand that Musk repay the $150 million the agency said he saved by disclosing his Twitter stake late, and settled for a $1.5 million penalty paid by his trust.
The Justice Department dropped their hiring discrimination case against SpaceX while Musk worked in the government. Senate staff estimated the dismissal spared SpaceX up to $46.1 million in penalties.
DOGE cut between 70 and 80 people at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration while the agency had eight open investigations into Tesla.
DOGE staff pushed Homeland Security officials to use Musk’s Grok chatbot, two sources told Reuters, and the General Services Administration later offered Grok to every federal agency at 42 cents per organization through March 2027.
DOGE aide Gavin Kliger, now the Pentagon’s chief data officer, held as much as $715,000 in seven companies that Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staff may not own while he helped oversee layoff notices to more than 1,400 bureau employees.
Charles Borges, Social Security’s former chief data officer, filed a whistleblower complaint saying DOGE put the Social Security records of more than 300 million Americans on a cloud server with no independent security checks. The complaint accuses DOGE staff, including Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, of breaking federal privacy law.
The Justice Department admitted in court that DOGE staffers breached Social Security data at least twice, and one of them signed an agreement to share the data with a political group trying to overturn election results.
A DOGE engineer’s AI tool for canceling Veterans Affairs contracts valued many of them at $34 million each when some were worth $35,000.
DOGE staffers Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh used ChatGPT to pick more than 1,400 humanities grants worth upward of $100 million for cancellation, and a federal judge ruled DOGE had no legal authority to end them.
Cavanaugh was also installed as head of the U.S. Institute of Peace after nearly all 300 of the institute’s employees were fired, and a federal judge ruled the takeover “null and void.”
Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who had pleaded guilty to violating anti-money-laundering law, after Binance paid $450,000 for one month of White House lobbying by a firm led by a friend of Trump Jr.
Trump pardoned former nursing home executive Paul Walczak after his mother donated $1 million to Trump at a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser. The pardon wiped out nearly $4.4 million in restitution.
Trump pardoned banker Julio Herrera Velutini in a Puerto Rico bribery case after his daughter gave $3.5 million to the pro-Trump super PAC MAGA Inc.
Trump pardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton, who was convicted of defrauding investors, after Milton and his wife gave Trump more than $1.8 million less than a month before the 2024 election.
Trump pardoned nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz, who pleaded guilty in a $39 million payroll tax scheme, after Schwartz paid a lobbying firm $960,000 to seek the pardon.
Trump pardoned Oak View Group co-founder Tim Leiweke before his bid-rigging trial, after the company gave $250,000 to Trump’s inaugural committee.
Trump commuted the prison sentence of donor Imaad Zuberi, who was convicted of obstructing an investigation into a $900,000 donation to Trump’s inaugural committee.
Trump commuted the sentence of Lawrence Duran, who ran a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme.
Trump’s commutation of former Rep. George Santos’s fraud sentence erased $373,000 in restitution he owed.
Bitcoin investor Roger Ver paid Trump adviser Roger Stone $600,000 to lobby on his behalf, and the Justice Department then agreed to drop Ver’s tax evasion charges if he pays what he owes.
Emil Bove, Trump’s former defense lawyer and now a federal appeals judge, ordered prosecutors to drop the corruption case against then-New York Mayor Eric Adams, who was accused of taking more than $100,000 in luxury travel. The judge who dismissed the case wrote that everything about it “smacks of a bargain.”
Energy Secretary Chris Wright canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants in states that voted for Kamala Harris. After Wright told Congress politics played no role, his department’s lawyers told a court the cuts were “based solely on the political identity” of each state.
Budget director Russ Vought held more than $800 million that Congress approved until the money expired on Sept. 30. The GAO found the move illegal the day before.
Zeldin terminated more than $1.5 billion in Community Change Grants that his agency’s own inspector general found were properly awarded. The GAO found the cuts illegal on Oct. 7.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s department paid Head Start programs more than $825 million less in early 2025 than the year before. The GAO found the department illegally withheld the money.
The National Institutes of Health, also under Kennedy, obligated almost $8 billion less in grants than the year before. The GAO found the withholding illegal.
Under Noem, the Federal Emergency Management Agency pulled about $80 million out of New York City’s treasury account. The GAO found the agency illegally withheld shelter and food program money.
Duffy’s Transportation Department had obligated only $526 million of $3.27 billion for electric vehicle chargers when the GAO found the freeze illegal.
Keith Sonderling, now leading the Labor Department, terminated about 1,200 museum and library grants as acting head of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The GAO found the terminations illegal.
Hegseth’s Army paid up to $11.5 million for services and meals at the Fort Bliss detention camp before any detainees arrived, under a $1.3 billion detention contract that the GAO found wasteful.
Trump’s National Guard deployments to U.S. cities cost $496 million in 2025, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated, and a federal judge ruled the Los Angeles deployment violated the Posse Comitatus Act.

Every report filed at fraud.gov goes to Scott Bessent’s Treasury Department, the reward money comes through Todd Blanche’s Justice Department, the FBI agents who investigate federal fraud answer to Kash Patel, and when two people file the same tip, Trump decides who collects. All four of them are on this list, at Nos. 28, 26, 21 and 1.

This administration won’t hold themselves accountable, and I filed all 67 anyway. I’ll explain why it still makes a difference, it’s just a short walk to get to the answer from “why does this matter?” I hope you’ll read the next few sentences and that it’ll then be clear just how much this matters.

Otpor, the Serbian student movement that helped bring down Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, used his own government’s fundraising drive against him. When his government put out boxes asking people to donate a dinar for planting crops, Otpor rolled a barrel onto Belgrade’s main pedestrian street with Milosevic’s face painted on it and a sign that read “Smash his face for just a dinar.” The two officers who showed up could arrest the people lining up to take a swing or seize the barrel, and Otpor co-founder Srdja Popovic wrote in Slate that they had “only one viable choice: Arrest the barrel.”

Fraud.gov is Trump’s dinar box, and these 67 reports are our barrel. Otpor printed more than 1 million “He’s finished” stickers before the September 2000 election, and Milosevic was out of power within two weeks of losing it. This Fraud.Gov campaign is one campaign of many that we need to take back our country. Your decision to participate in our call to action is a decision to be part of that movement that removes a tyrant. No one action ends things, but it all builds an opposition movement that continually looks for new ways to fight back, grows more and more numerous in membership, and more sophisticated with each iteration of effective opposition.

Anyone who wants to join in can post this list anywhere online, in friendly spaces and hostile ones, in addition to reporting the fraud yourself. More detailed instructions are below in our “Call To Action” section. If we each take a few minutes today, we can inundate the internet with the Fraud Administration’s actions.

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Trump’s fraud.gov takes reports at america.gov/fraud, and each of the 67 cases above is one report. Your name is optional, and the form hands back a reference number and a copy of what you filed. A report says what the linked source reports, in your own words, with the source link pasted in. A false statement on a federal form is a crime, so the report stays on what the source says.

Once you’ve filed, you write that you submitted the fraud report and share that with the list anywhere people will see it: your social media feeds, a conservative Facebook group, the comments under any story about the program, a text or email to 10 friends, your conservative uncle, or even your weird incel MAGA neighbor.

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