Obituary: Keith Allen Mills
ARUNDEL - Keith Allen Mills, 50, of Arundel, passed away on Sunday April 25, 2021, in Kennebunkport.
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Keith Allen Mills
ARUNDEL – Keith Allen Mills, 50, of Arundel, passed away on Sunday April 25, 2021, in Kennebunkport.
Keith was born April 10, 1971, in Biddeford to Mr. Jon A. Mills and Mrs. Sharon Langlois Mills.
He attended Biddeford High School, graduating in 1989. He then attended, Southern Maine Vocational Technical College, earning an associate degree in Criminal Justice. He furthered his education at the University of Southern Maine where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice in 1992.
Keith started his law enforcement career as a Corrections Officer with the York County Sheriff’s department at the age of 18 and as a Reserve Officer with the Ogunquit Police Department. He then joined the Kennebunkport Police Department as Patrolman, attaining the rank of Sergeant before his retirement there a
shows expenses incurred between December 17, 2020, and January 3, 2021 include 77 charges from rental car companies at Eagle County Regional Airport and Denver International Airport, and lodging expenses at several area hotels including over $270,000 spent at the Marriott Vail Mountain and more than $80,000 at the Ritz Carlton Bachelor Gulch.
“The trip came with a massive bill to taxpayers, with Secret Service protection alone costing $757,527.85,” CREW reports
. Mike and Karen Pence were the only two listed protectees on the documents.
A brief history of VP visits
The Vail area has a long history of visits from vice presidents and the costs tied to security detail are the largest expenses from these trips. Members of the Secret Service have also, more than once, been in the spotlight for things other than operational costs.
A slew of Secret Service Agents surround the presidential motorcade as it travels toward the White House Jan. 20, 2021, during the inaugural parade in Washington, D.C. Official White House Photo by Ana Isabel Martinez Chamorro
Dark sunglasses, unsmiling mugs, a head on a swivel, the surreptitious earpiece, black suit, maybe the hint of a bulge under the jacket. Everybody knows a Secret Service agent when they see one, right?
Ah, but the United States Secret Service is way more than no-nonsense automatons packing heat and putting their lives on the line to protect presidents and other political bigwigs. When the United States Secret Service the USSS, for all you government acronym-iacs came into being at the end of the Civil War, protecting people wasn t even in its DNA.
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A hooded man holds a laptop computer as blue screen with an exclamation mark is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration
Government and industry officials confronting an epidemic of ransomware, where hackers freeze the computers of a target and demand a payoff, are zeroing in on cryptocurrency regulation as the key to combating the scourge, sources familiar with the work of a public-private task force said.
In a report on Thursday, the panel of experts is expected to call for far more aggressive tracking of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. While those have won greater acceptance among investors over the past year, they remain the lifeblood of ransomware operators and other criminals who face little risk of prosecution in much of the world.
EXCLUSIVE-Government, industry push bitcoin regulation to fight ransomware scourge Reuters 4/28/2021
By Joseph Menn and John Shiffman
SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 (Reuters) - Government and industry officials confronting an epidemic of ransomware, where hackers freeze the computers of a target and demand a payoff, are zeroing in on cryptocurrency regulation as the key to combating the scourge, sources familiar with the work of a public-private task force said.
In a report on Thursday, the panel of experts is expected to call for far more aggressive tracking of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. While those have won greater acceptance among investors over the past year, they remain the lifeblood of ransomware operators and other criminals who face little risk of prosecution in much of the world.