Two United States Senators have introduced a bill aimed at expanding the Secret Service’s powers to combat cryptocurrency-related crime. The “Combatting Money Laundering in Cyber Crime Act of 2024” bill was introduced by Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto and Iowa’s Charles Grassley on Aug. 2. It would expand the Secret Service’s authority to investigate cryptocurrency transactions made by unlicensed money transmitting businesses and potential frauds committed against US financial institutions. “The funding of criminal activity through digital assets poses a direct threat to the security and safe…