‘Dead People’ and ‘Bots’ Were Receiving FAFSA Loans, Says Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Against the backdrop of ongoing fraud investigations in states such as Minnesota, the Department of Education is launching a “fraud detection team” after having already uncovered illicit activities within large, long-running programs such as Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. The Trump administration discovered “that many of the [student aid] applications were actually being filled out by bots. There were