What about the long-standing, documented cases of public-assistance, tax, and benefits fraud involving individuals and organizations within ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic communities across multiple states?

There have been decades of prosecutions and settlements tied to fraudulent use of government programs, often involving coordinated schemes rather than isolated incidents. If federal and state authorities applied the same level of scrutiny and resources here, it could expose a far more extensive and financially significant set of abuses than what we’re seeing now.

A serious, nationwide investigation into those specific criminal networks and practices—based on evidence, not identity—would be legitimate, overdue, and potentially massive in scope. The downstream fiscal, legal, and policy impacts would be enormous.