DOJ’s ‘Operation Ghostbusters’ targets massive student-aid fraud scheme built on fake enrollees

Federal law enforcement authorities have launched a nationwide crackdown dubbed, "Operation Ghostbusters," to dismantle an international student aid scheme that investigators estimate has been operating since 2021, "potentially reaching several hundred million dollars" in taxpayer losses. 

Announcing the first wave of enforcement actions, Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald revealed that organized syndicates have systematically stolen the identities of working Americans who never applied to college...