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Who is able to view the money transfers?

Photo: Octavio Jones
Photo: Octavio Jones (Getty Images)

All told, several thousand officers spread out across more than 600 law enforcement entities on the state, local, and federal levels may have had access to the records. On the national level, those agencies reportedly include the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and smaller local police forces spread out across nearly every state. ICE and Homeland Security alone, according to Senator Ron Wyden, reportedly used customs summonses to suck up roughly six million money transfer records from Western Union and Maxitransfers since 2019.