President Donald Trump announced the appointment of Randolph Alles as director of the United States secret service, the White House press service reported..
Alles prior to this appointment served as acting Deputy Commissioner of the US Customs and Border Service.
He served for 35 years in the US Marine Corps, where in 2011 he left in the rank of Major-General.
The US Secret Service is a federal agency subordinated to the US Department of Homeland Security, whose main tasks are preventing forgery of money, debt, other valuable documents, as well as protecting the president, vice president, their immediate relatives, other high-ranking officials.
In addition, the secret service is investigating various types of financial fraud.