
Homeland Security announces first-of-its-kind task force aimed at fighting transnational organized crime
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A first-of-its-kind Homeland Security Task Force was launched in New York to combat transnational organized crime and foreign terrorist organizations.
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"This task force is the first of its kind. Using a whole-of-government approach, through a unified framework, the HSTFs serve as a model for protecting the homeland from evolving threats presented by transnational organized crime," Patel said. "The mission of the HSTF is to identify and target for prosecution transnational criminal organizations engaged in diverse criminal schemes involving a myriad of federal violations, both within the United States and throughout the world."
Patel said that the crimes included homicide, human trafficking, money laundering, kidnapping, extortion, drug trafficking and weapons trafficking.













