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Sep

20

2016

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Tate Jarrow will receive the 2016 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal (Sammies Award) at a gala to be held in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. This…

Sep

19

2016

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that, STACY BORLEY BORTEY, age 26, of Houston, Texas, pled guilty to BANK FRAUD, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections…

Sep

19

2016

Baltimore, Maryland – Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Jose Miguel Tapia, age 30, of Baltimore, to five years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft arising…

Sep

19

2016

Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that LISA LANDMAN, 48, of Redding, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one…

Sep

12

2016

WASHINGTON – Joseph A. Caputo, 23, of Stamford, Conn., pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from an incident on Thanksgiving Day 2015 in which he illegally scaled the White House fence, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips…

Sep

09

2016

Cleveland, OH) – On September 8, 2016, the Secret Service Cleveland Field Office and two Special Agents were honored by Mayor Frank Jackson and the City of Cleveland during a proclamation ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio. The Secret Service was…

Sep

08

2016

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Andrew Otto Boggs, aka “INCURSIO,” 22, of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, and Justin Gray Liverman, aka “D3F4ULT,” 24, of Morehead City, North Carolina, were arrested today on charges related to their alleged roles in the…

Sep

01

2016

Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who used the online moniker “Guccifer,” was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.

Assistant Attorney…

Aug

31

2016

(Oklahoma City, OK) - United States Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy announced the appointment of a veteran agent with a distinguished record to the position of Special Agent in Charge in Oklahoma City.

Kenneth Valentine, a…

Aug

31

2016

(Birmingham, AL) - United States Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy has announced the appointment of a veteran agent with a distinguished record to the position of Special Agent in Charge in Birmingham.

Michael A. Williams, a 31-…

Aug

31

2016

(Tampa, FL) - United States Secret Service Director Joseph P. Clancy has announced the appointment of a veteran agent with a distinguished record to the position of Special Agent in Charge in Tampa.

Billy Joe Powers, a veteran agent…

Aug

29

2016

(Washington, D.C.) – The United States Secret Service Washington Field Office has received the Property and Evidence Accreditation by the International Association for Property and Evidence (IAPE) making it the first federal field office to…

Aug

25

2016

Seattle, WA – A federal court jury today convicted Roman Valerevich Seleznev, aka “Track2,” 32, of Vladivostok, Russia, of 38 counts related to his scheme to hack into point-of-sale computers to steal and sell credit card numbers to the…

Aug

25

2016

WASHINGTON – A New Hampshire man pleaded guilty today to remotely hacking into the online accounts of almost a dozen female victims and sending them threatening online communications, in some instances containing sexually explicit photos, in…

Aug

23

2016

WASHINGTON – The CEO of Preferred Merchants LLC, a financial services company based in Napa, California, was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina to 15 months in prison for engaging in an…