By Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’s internal watchdog office is investigating whether people caught up in President Donald Trump’s Washington crime crackdown are improperly enrolled in some federal benefits, according to a government document and three people familiar with the matter.

The department’s inspector general’s office is looking to see if the people have defrauded the Medicare, Medicaid or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families programs for low-income, elderly and disabled Americans, probing people ensnared by Trump’s policing surge in Washington, D.C., for possible violations unrelated to the reason they were stopped by police.

Justice Department officials have said that more than 2,000 people have been arrested in the W

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