Southern Florida’s new U.S Attorney Wifredo “Will” Ferrer, detailed his office’s priorities in an interview with Sunshine State News Tuesday.

Wifredo Ferrer (DOJ)

Ferrer said he intends to focus on mortgage scams and Medicare fraud, two plagues that have deeply affected Florida in recent months. Ferrer was nominated by President Barack Obama in February and confirmed by the Senate in April.

Ferrer’s Miami-based office has charged 400 people with mortgage fraud schemes totally $500 million. Over the past four years, more than 1,000 people also have faced charges for Medicare fraud involving $3 billion in government funds.

Ferrer said his office has been working to improve cooperation and information-sharing with regulators and banks. To help with this effort, he hired more Assistant U.S. Attorneys to reach out to agents from other agencies.

Ferrer, who replaced R. Alexander Acosta, also expressed his concerns about political corruption. He said he opposed a sentence reductions for three former Palm Beach County commissioners, who were convicted in connection with illegal land deals earlier this summer.

In June, the Supreme Court limited prosecutors’ use of the honest services fraud statute, a measure the Justice Department often used to indict public officials who failed to disclose their personal gains from corporate or government business.

Ferrer said that even with the narrower law, alternative charges would secure the case against the former commissioners.