That’s according to a Saturday (July 5) Bloomberg News report focusing on the agency’s Global Investigative Operations Center (GIOC), which specializes in digital financial crimes. In the last decade, sources told Bloomberg, the center has seized close to $400 million in digital assets.
Most of those seized funds, the report added, are in a single cold-storage wallet, making the Secret Service — better known for guarding the president — one of the largest crypto custodians in the world.
According to the report, the operation is overseen by Kali Smith, a lawyer who directs the Secret Service’s cryptocurrency strategy, and whose team has held training workshops for law enforcement in more than 60 countries.
The agency focuses…
Jul 07 2025
