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The Secret Service is tasked with ensuring the safety of the president of the United States, the vice president of the United States, the president-elect of the United States, the vice president-elect of the United States, and their immediate families; former presidents, their spouses and their children under the age of 16; those in the presidential line of succession, major presidential and ...
Abraham W. Bolden (born January 19, 1935) is a former United States Secret Service agent. He was the first African American assigned to the presidential security detail, appointed in 1961 by John F. Kennedy. In 1964, Bolden was fired from the Secret Service after he was charged with accepting a bribe in relation to a counterfeiting case he had ...
On March 27, 2013, President Barack Obama appointed Julia Pierson to be the twenty-third director of the Secret Service. [10] She became the first female director of the agency. [11] On October 1, 2014, the Secret Service leadership changed to Director Joseph Clancy, a retired agent who formerly led the Presidential Protective Division.
"That to me is really unsettling," said Evy Poumpouras, a former Secret Service agent who protected multiple presidents, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush, during her 12 years with the agency.
With the resignation of director Julia Pierson over multiple security breaches--including allowing an armed man to ride in an elevator with President Obama last month--it hasn't been a great press ...
Penalties. Threatening the president of the United States is a class D felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871. [52][53] It is punishable by up to 5 years in prison, [52] a maximum fine of $250,000, [54] a $100 special assessment, [55] and up to 3 years of supervised release. [56] Internet restrictions such as a prohibition on ...
A high-ranking Secret Service official with more than 26 years of federal law experience will retire from the agency, months after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life. Michael Plati ...
David G. Carpenter. Kimberly Cheatle. David Cho (Secret Service) Joseph Clancy (Secret Service) Temple Clark. Leslie Coffelt. William Craig (Secret Service)