Senate Confirms Colin McDonald as Assistant Attorney General for Fraud Enforcement

The Senate voted to approve longtime federal prosecutor Colin McDonald to a newly created Justice Department role focused on combating fraud in government programs.

The Senate confirmed Colin McDonald on Tuesday by a 52-47 vote, as Sen. Chuck Grassley stated, “Republicans and Democrats can and should agree: fighting fraud, particularly fraud on the American taxpayer, is important work, and that’s true now more than ever. What happened in Minnesota and around the country is unacceptable, and we as elected officials need to support the Justice Department in stopping this fraud.”

McDonald previously served as an associate deputy attorney general in the office of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, where he supervised the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group. He also spent roughly a decade as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of California and also served as a special attorney in Hawaii.

The position he now assumes was