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The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) appreciates the support from Congress for the PRAC’s oversight mission and the inclusion of $2 million in the Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act to “further develop the data analytics capabilities of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee to enhance transparency, and to prevent, detect, and remediate waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending.” This funding is critically important to preserve and enhance the PRAC’s data analytics function that has demonstrated its ability to prevent fraud...

Washington, DC — Today, Michael E. Horowitz, Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC), announced the release of the PRAC’s Semiannual Report to Congress, which covers the period from April 1, 2023, through September 30, 2023. “The PRAC has created a blueprint for conducting effective oversight of this extraordinary amount of emergency relief spending by coordinating with our oversight partners at all levels of government and leveraging data analytics to better prevent and detect fraud,” said Chair Horowitz. “This model should be retained, replicated, and broadened to...

PRAC Chair Michael E. Horowitz detailed the PRAC’s ongoing pandemic oversight efforts, urging Congress to make the Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence (PACE) permanent and to broaden its jurisdiction to all federal spending.

Let this sentencing be a wakeup call to fraudsters: the consequences for your criminal behavior will be severe, and we will not stop until we’ve detected every dollar lost to fraud, waste, and abuse,” said Chair Horowitz. “These programs were intended to help small business owners during the pandemic.

This case was also supported by the PRAC’s Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence, which applies the latest advances in analytic and forensic technologies to help OIGs and law enforcement pursue data-driven pandemic relief fraud investigations.

Michael E. Horowitz, Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC), issued a statement following the U.S. Department of Justice’s COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force Roundtable Meeting, where officials announced the results of a nationwide effort that included 718 enforcement actions for offenses related to over $836 million in alleged COVID-19 fraud.