Donald Trump Sent Federal Agents Into New York After Kathy Hochul Let Fraudsters Steal 2 Million Dollars a Day
Kathy Hochul watched Nigerian crime rings and foreign syndicates drain $507 million from New York's unemployment system in 2025. Now Trump's elite strike force is on the ground in Albany – and Hochul has some explaining to do.The Department of Labor just embedded federal agents inside New York State's own unemployment office to hunt down every fraud lead and build criminal cases from the inside.
New York isn't just bad at stopping unemployment fraud. It's the worst in the country – by a wide margin. The state carries a 15% fraud rate and a 23% improper payment rate – both the highest in the nation.
Of the $507 million in overpayments paid out in 2025, New York has clawed back just 25%. The national average is 69%.
That gap isn't incompetence. That's a state government that stopped trying.
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New York isn't just bad at stopping unemployment fraud. It's the worst in the country – by a wide margin. The state carries a 15% fraud rate and a 23% improper payment rate – both the highest in the nation.
Of the $507 million in overpayments paid out in 2025, New York has clawed back just 25%. The national average is 69%.
That gap isn't incompetence. That's a state government that stopped trying.
Read about it...
