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by gknight 2227 days ago
Pardon my ignorance: Could someone explain to me why this is under the purview of the Secret Service?
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It's a bit of a historical oddity, but the Secret Service is responsible for policing counterfeiting and wire fraud. When the USSS was founded in 1865 there was no federal police agency (other than USPIS I believe), so they handled that particular crime and no one has taken the jurisdiction away from them.

https://www.secretservice.gov/investigation/

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