Isn’t the HUD scam a really obvious and risky crime? I know it happens in real life, but I don’t know how people don’t get caught 100% of the time

Like, the foundation takes a quarter million dollars from the state of New Jersey and then mysteriously never does any actual urban development with that money, and in response the state just does nothing? A scheme like that has an extensive paper trail with everyone’s names on it. It just seems like the kind of thing the FBI would have a field day with. Is there something about it I’m not understanding?