News Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In what is described as one of the largest seizures of counterfeit U.S. currency in Italy in recent years, the United States Secret Service, working together with the Guardia Di Finanza, seized more than $1 million in…

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On January 9, 2003, the United States Secret Service, working together with the Colombian National Police (DIJIN), suppressed a counterfeit U.S. coin plant and seized $450 in counterfeit $1 coins and the metal needed to fill…

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of the Treasury has announced the appointment of W. Ralph Basham as the 21st Director of the United States Secret Service, the nation's oldest investigative federal law enforcement agency. Basham is a 28-year …

WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, United States Secret Service Director Brian L. Stafford issued the following statement on the passage of the bill to create the new Department of Homeland Security:

"This is truly a…

WASHINGTON – Director Brian L. Stafford, a veteran of more than 30 years with the United States Secret Service, has announced his plans to retire effective January 2003.

“I am extremely proud of our accomplishments as an agency,” Stafford…

WACO, TX. -- On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, agents from the United States Secret Service, in cooperation with the Waco Police Department, the McLennan Sheriff's Office, and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigative Division (IRS-CID), …

LOS ANGELES -- On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 9:00 AM, the first quarterly meeting of the Los Angeles Electronic Crimes Task Force (LAXECTF) will convene at the Wilshire Grand Los Angeles. Security experts, including chief information officers…

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The United States Secret Service, in partnership with the Office of Homeland Security, will sponsor a Major Event Management Seminar, September 4-6, 2002 in Washington, D.C. The seminar's objective is to provide law…