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News Releases

Stay up-to-date with the latest news from Secret Service.


May

11

2023

BOSTON – A Florida man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a scheme to steal thousands of customers’ debit and credit card account numbers and other personally identifying information via a network of electronic…

May

10

2023

Securities and Exchange Commission v. Clayton R. Thomas and Personalized Healthcare Solution, LLC, No. 3:23-cv-00459 (M.D. Tenn. filed May 9, 2023)

Litigation Release No. 25717 / May 10, 2023

SEC Charges Tennessee Resident and…

May

10

2023

Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Adair F. Boroughs announced today that 26 individuals, many of them associates of a significant narcotics trafficking organization, have been indicted on a wide variety of charges—…

May

04

2023

SPOKANE, Wash. – Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today the seizure of $290,399.73 by the U.S. Secret Service in an alleged elder fraud scam. 

The seizure arises from…

May

03

2023

WASHINGTON, D.C.  - U.S. Secret Service in partnership with the Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) today announced…

Apr

24

2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. - United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle has announced the appointment of Stephen Roncone to the position of Chief Financial Officer, April 24, 2023.

Roncone previously served six years at U.S.…

Apr

18

2023

Washington, D.C. - Ronald L. Rowe Jr. has been named Deputy Director of the U.S. Secret Service. His tenure will begin in the coming months, marking the latest step in a career with the agency that began in 1999. Rowe replaces outgoing Deputy…

Apr

11

2023

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A Nixa, Mo., man who used his business to steal customers’ identity information in a scheme to obtain hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent car loans was sentenced in federal court today.

Chris R. King, 48,…

Apr

10

2023

CONCORD – A Northwood man was sentenced today in federal court for attempting to fraudulently obtain over $6 million in CARES Act funds from the United States government, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces.

Joshua Leavitt, 41, was…

Apr

06

2023

ST. LOUIS – A man from Florida caught with more than $12,000 in Walmart gift cards that he’d bought using stolen bank account information pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal felony.

Juseph Eugene Suero-Olmeda, 23, admitted using…

Apr

05

2023

SAN ANTONIO – Two New Braunfels men pleaded guilty in a federal court in San Antonio to selling non-controlled but dangerous substances through the mail.

According to court documents, Evan Asher Field, 42, and Michael Dominic Diaz, 30…

Apr

05

2023

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Two North Carolina family members, Lal H. Mahtani, 58, of Statesville and Vivek Ramesh Mahtani, 41, of Cornelius were sentenced yesterday in federal court before Judge Kenneth D. Bell for conspiring to transport fraudulently…

Apr

05

2023

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – W. Stephen Muldrow, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, announced the indictment of six individuals for a multi-million-dollar fraudulent scheme to illegally obtain federal recovery funds under the…

Apr

05

2023

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Two Washington D.C. women and a Clinton, Maryland, man were sentenced for their roles in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud.

According to court documents, from at least May 2016 until Oct. 2016, Adiam Berhane, 50,…

Apr

04

2023

DETROIT – A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft arising out of a scheme to defraud multiple states out of more than $1.6 million in pandemic-related unemployment insurance benefits, announced…