ICE's #FridayFive | Oct. 4, 2019

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Preventing Child Exploitation | ICE HSI roots out child predators at home and abroad

To protect the most vulnerable and root out predators has been a high priority of HSI for more than two decades.

Throughout the years, ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) child exploitation prevention efforts morphed from a small center in Fairfax, Virginia, into a worldwide initiative. The launch of HSI’s flagship initiative, Operation Predator, and key domestic and foreign partnerships, have been paramount in the expansion of both its reach and success.

The goal: To identify, investigate, and arrest child predators who possess, trade, and produce child sexual abuse material; travel overseas for sex with minors; and engage in the sex trafficking of children. Learn more

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ERO | ICE removes Turkish national wanted to serve remainder of prison sentence

Ozgur Mavruk was removed from the US via a commercial air flight and transferred into the custody of Turkish law enforcement authorities

ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) deportation officers removed a Turkish national Sept. 16, wanted in his home country to serve the almost four years remaining on his imposed prison sentence. According to Turkish law enforcement authorities, in February 2009, Mavruk, assisted by others, detained, drugged and raped a prosecution witness in order to compel that witness to change her testimony against the leader of a Turkish criminal organization, of which Mavruk was a member.  Read more
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Work for ICE | ICE is hiring public affairs specialists

Job announcements close Oct. 15

ICE's Office of Public Affairs is hiring public affairs specialists in Sacramento, New Orleans, San Francisco, and NYC. 

Interested? To learn more and apply, visit USAJOBS. 

Don't want to miss another job announcement? Follow us on Twitter at @ICEgov and @ICEgovCareers, or on LinkedIn. 
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Cultural Property | ICE returns 6th century marble statue to Libya

The return of the statue was the culmination of an 11-year investigation led by HSI New York, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of State and CBP

ICE HSI International Operations Division Chief Leo Lin returned a sixth century marble statue known as the “Head of a Veiled Woman,” during a repatriation ceremony at the Libyan Embassy, Thursday. Read more
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HSI | Financial advisor charged in multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme

Financial advisor bilks investors of nearly $5 million

A Norwalk, Connecticut, man was arrested Monday following an investigation by HSI New York, with assistance from HSI Boston—New Haven, Connecticut office.  James T. Booth was indicted in the Southern District of New York, charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and investment advisor fraud charges in connection with his years-long scheme to defraud customers of his financial services firm named Booth Financial Associates (“Booth Financial”). Read more