Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill to expand the Secret Service's powers to fight cryptocurrency-related crimes. CatherineCortezMasto of Nevada and Charles Grassley of Iowa recently introduced the Cybercrime Money Laundering Act of 2024, which would expand the Secret Service's powers to investigate cryptocurrency transactions by unlicensed money transfer businesses and potential fraud against the U.S. Financial Institution Group. Cortez Masto emphasized the importance of the bill...
On July 21, according to the New York Times, four people familiar with the matter said that in the two years before Trump's attempted assassination at a Pennsylvania rally last Saturday, senior officials of the U.S. Secret Service had repeatedly rejected requests from Trump's security personnel for additional resources and personnel. Agents tasked with keeping the former president safe have asked for magnetometers and more agents at sporting events and other large public gatherings attended by T...