Elder Fraud

Jose Rivera-Arroyo
Supervisory Special Agent
Financial Crimes Taskforce
Houston Division

Mr. Rivera-Arroyo was born in New York City, New York. He received a Bachelor's Degree from
the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico in 2000.
Mr. Rivera-Arroyo has been a Special Agent of the FBI since 2005. He first was assigned to the
San Antonio Division, where he worked Counterterrorism and Transnational Organized Crime
investigations. In 2010, he became a member of the San Antonio Division Crisis Negotiations team and
taught Crisis Negotiations to Federal, State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies throughout the Rio
Grande Valley of Texas. In 2015, he was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) and assigned to the
newly formed Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) unit of the International Operations Division in
FBI Headquarters. He was responsible for all MLAT matters submitted to the United States by foreign
countries in North America, South America, Africa, and Europe.
In late 2016, he was promoted to Assistant Legal Attaché and was responsible for representing the
FBI in Honduras. He coordinated all FBI investigative leads and requests with Honduran Law Enforcement
Agencies, and supervised the FBI Transnational Anti-Gang Unit (TAG).
In 2020, ALAT Rivera-Arroyo was assigned to the Joint Terrorism Taskforce (JTTF) in the
Houston Division’s National Security Branch. SSA Rivera-Arroyo, with the responsibility to investigate
International Terrorism, with a primary focus on Home Grown Violent Extremist and ISIS. In January of
2025, SSA Rivera-Arroyo oversaw the JTTF support to the New Orleans Division during the New Year’s
day Terrorist attack, the 4 th largest terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
In March 2026, he was reassigned to supervise the Financial Crimes Taskforce. The focus of the
taskforce is to combat fraud and financial crimes. The financial taskforce is responsible for investigating
numerous violations to include Securities Fraud, Embezzlements, Mortgage Fraud, Bank Fraud, Ponzi
Schemes, Romance Scams, Fraud against the Government, and Cyber Enabled Fraud.
SSA Rivera-Arroyo is married and has a 24-year-old son who graduated from the University of
Texas A&M, and a 20-year-old daughter attending the University of Houston.