Forum rules
If you are posting news, press or any other related material that directly or in-directly benefits you, we request that you post a back-link to bitcoin.com by using a button, banner or text-link on your website. Thanks for supporting Bitcoin.com!
User avatar
jamie.redman1
Global Moderator
Global Moderator
Posts: 603
Joined: Thu Oct 01, 2015 6:24 pm

[2017-06-23]FBI Requests New Funding To Investigate Use Of Virtual Currencies

Fri Jun 23, 2017 3:50 pm

On June 21 the acting director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, gave a speech to U.S. bureaucrats requesting a new budget for the fiscal year of 2018. The request proposal totals of $8.77 billion, and some of that funding will be appropriated towards investigating the use of virtual currencies by criminals who “obscure their transactions.”

During this year’s FBI budget hearing Andrew McCabe asked for continued support during the agency’s leadership transition period. McCabe has taken the place of former FBI director James Comey who was let go by President Donald Trump. The acting director has the same concerns as Comey did in regards to the challenges involved with gaining access to digital information

Read More Here >>> https://news.bitcoin.com/fbi-requests-n ... urrencies/

Return to “In the news”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 13 guests