Secret Service Raids Atlantic Bullion and Coin in Anderson, SC

[andrew1229649]

Secret Service raids silver business under investigation
Agents with the Secret Service and Anderson County deputies raided Atlantic Bullion and Coin in Easley Thursday night, which is under investigation after the company's owner is accused of running a $70 million ponzi scheme.
- FOX Carolina http://www.foxcarolina.com/slideshow?widgetid=48282

[oyarde]

Best , I can tell , they were supposed to be buying silver with peoples funds and are accused on not making purchases . Why would Secret Service beinvolved in that ? Would that not be State Police ?

[Zippyjuan]

Secret Service is the eforcement arm of the US Treasury- though it would usually be the FBI who is more actively invoved in things like raids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...Secret_Service

The U.S. Secret Service has two distinct areas of responsibility :
Treasury roles, covering missions such as prevention and investigation of counterfeiting of U.S. currency and U.S treasury securities, and investigation of major fraud.[4]

Protective roles, ensuring the safety of current and former national leaders and their families, such as the President, past Presidents, Vice Presidents, presidential candidates, foreign embassies (per an agreement with the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) Office of Foreign Missions (OFM), etc.[5]

The Secret Service's initial responsibility was to investigate crimes related to the Treasury and then evolved into the United States' first domestic intelligence and counterintelligence agency. Many of the agency's missions were later taken over by subsequent agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

[oyarde]

Secret Service is the eforcement arm of the US Treasury- though it would usually be the FBI who is more actively invoved in things like raids.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...Secret_Service

Yeah , unless there was fake silver involved , not sure why the treasury arm would be involved in a local fraud ?? If there is some fake silver , I would interested in that ....