What Do Counterfeiters, Assassins, and Child Molesters Have in Common?

It?s part of their portfolio. In 1994, Congress created a task force to help state and local law enforcement officials investigate cases of missing and sexually exploited children, and included two representatives of the Secret Service on the committee. Nine years later, the Amber Alert law officially added child abduction and molestation to the list of crimes the agency is authorized to investigate. Lawmakers reasoned that the skills developed by the Secret Service in foiling would-be assassins, counterfeiters, and credit card fraudsters would make them useful in other sorts of cases, too. Their agents have better equipment and training than many local law enforcement officials in fields like electronic evidence collection, polygraph examinations, and latent fingerprint identification. While the Onondaga district attorney said that the Secret Service is leading the Bernie Fine investigation, child molestation is usually prosecuted under state laws, and the Secret Service insists that it is playing a supporting role.

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