California has long occupied a special place on President Donald Trump’s list of election grievances.
Asked recently why he was urging his supporters to vote by mail while continuing to claim the method is rife with fraud, Trump singled out one state.
“Start off by taking a look at California,” Trump said. “There is a lot of cheating in vote-by-mail. All over.”
It was far from the first time that Trump had falsely gone after the nation’s largest and most prominent state — which on Thursday became the target of an extraordinary federal lawsuit aiming to bar California officials from counting the ballots of 20,000 people alleged to be noncitizens*.
But during Trump’s second term, these attacks have gone beyond rhetoric — they have increasingly been backed by the machinery of the federal government. Among the Trump administration’s efforts in the Golden State have…
This type of fraud targets the supply chain and accounts payable departments of businesses.
- Invoice Manipulation: Criminals intercept a legitimate invoice between a supplier and a client and change the banking details to their own. The client pays the bill thinking they are paying their trusted vendor.
- Kickbacks and Bribery: A vendor secretly pays an employee of the purchasing company to ensure their bid is successful or to overlook inflated pricing.