WASHINGTON (TNND) — Vice President JD Vance, who is leading the Trump administration’s anti-fraud task force, said that 780 “fraudulent hospice centers” have been shut down by the federal government.

Vance told Fox News’s “Saturday in America” that local officials were allegedly either ignoring or enabling fraud, the Washington Examiner reported.

“Well, we just have to prosecute as much as we can and we have to accept that, yes, there are going to be some blue states that fight us. But that doesn’t mean we can’t do our job. And for every person that slips through the cracks because of a crooked judge, we’re going to get 10 people who actually go to prison or suffer real consequences for it and we’re also saving the American people a lot of money,” Vance said.

“You can have a fraudster, you can have them dead to rights, you can have them literally in a text message confessing to the crime but sometimes you’re still going to have corrupt judges,” he added.

Vance said the Trump administration anticipated that judges in Democratic-led states would push back, and is working on legal strategies to pursue prosecutions in jurisdictions that are likely to be more favorable.

He noted that some cases may not move forward, but federal officials still expect to bring a substantial number of prosecutions.

“The fraud is right there for everybody to see. We closed down 800 fraudulent hospice centers. If you’re running a business and the federal government closes down your main source of revenue, do you write a letter? Do you make a phone call? Seven hundred and eighty of those we’ve closed down, we haven’t even heard a single thing from anybody. That’s how bad the fraud is,” Vance said.

He also suggested that federal officials are examining whether anyone in Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office allowed fraud.

“When I hear a report that says to the governor, ‘here’s all this fraud and he doesn’t do anything about it,’ I ask myself, ‘was anybody engaged in criminal wrongdoing? Was anybody in his office engaged in criminal wrongdoing?’ Again, I’m not going to say yes, but I am going to promise the American people,” Vance said.

The vice president has been leading the task force since March, following the discovery of widespread fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs, where fraudulent rings had stolen billions of taxpayer dollars.