News from January 2003
W. Ralph Basham Appointed as Director of the United States Secret Service
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2003
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Department of the Treasury has announced theappointment 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-yearveteran of the Secret Service and has also served as Director of the Federal LawEnforcement Training Center and Chief of Staff at the newly created TransportationSecurity Administration.
United States Secret Service Suppresses Second Coin Counterfeiting Plant in Colombia This Year
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2003
News Release: 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 an order for an additional 10,000.
Italian Police and Secret Service Work Together to Seize $1 Million in Counterfeit U.S. Currency
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2003
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In what is described as one of the largest seizures of counterfeitU.S. currency in Italy in recent years, the United States Secret Service, working together
Secret Service Arrests Suspects in California Mortgage Fraud Scheme
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2003
News Release: LOS ANGELES -- On Thursday, Jan. 23, the United States Secret Service arrestedseven people suspected of carrying out an elaborate mortgage fraud scheme. Thesuspects have been charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
United States Secret Service Headquarters Hosts Internet Safety Seminar and Expo
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 24, 2003
News Release: WASHINGTON -- On Friday, Jan. 24, 2003, the United States Secret Service, incooperation with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, hosted a
United States Secret Service Suppresses Second Coin Counterfeiting Plant in Colombia This Year
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2003
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. --For the second time in as many weeks, the United States SecretService, working together with the Colombian National Police (DIJIN), suppressed acounterfeit U.S. coin plant. Nearly $100,000 in counterfeit "Golden Dollars," the U.S. $1Sacagawea coin, was seized on Monday, January 27th in Bogota.