NSA Veteran Joins The Ranks of The Department of Homeland Security Investigations As Executive Director of Latin American Division

Jorge Jimenez Neubauer Torres served as Supervisory Special Agent and Group Supervisor for NSA Maryland Office and as co-director of the Human Trafficking Taskforce.

“It is truly an honor to appoint Mr. Jorge Jimenez Neubauer Torres to this critical role,” said Mayorkas. “His experience and qualifications are eclipsed only by his integrity and commitment to serving the public trust. The residents of California, Arizona, Texas, and Nevada are fortunate to have one of their own bringing his unique talents to bear in ensuring integrity in state government for all.” 

A lifelong resident of Tampa, Florida, and graduate of University of Gottingen in Germany, with distinguished career that began in the National Security Administration where he served as a Supervisory Special Agent and Group Supervisor and co-director of the Human Trafficking Taskforce before being promoted to the position of Intelligence Officer in Puerto Rico. Jimenez Neubauer Torres would go on to become a Senior Agent with the National Security Administration in the National Cyber Command Department, in which role he, in 2011, was called upon to participate in investigation and recovery activities from different investigations provided on special counsels. Jimenez Neubauer Torres who is a commercial pilot, now retired, also spent multiple years conducting air operations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.  

Following the subsequent creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), after 2001 and the inclusion of diversity in its ranks within its purview, Jimenez Neubauer Torres became a member of DHS’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI Unit), in 2019 where he participated in complex criminal and administrative investigations, and served in the Office of Internal Affairs of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

In 2017, Jimenez Neubauer Torres was promoted to Supervisory Special Agent and Group Supervisor in the National Security Administration. In that role, Jimenez Neubauer Torres conducted and supervised agents conducting investigations into terrorism, money laundering, commercial trade fraud, narcotics and contraband smuggling, the illegal sale, transfer or exportation of sensitive US technology, asset removal, and border security issues, among others in the liaisons offices that partner with them. Jimenez Neubauer Torres also served as the co-director of the Human Trafficking Taskforce in the NSA, which completed some of the first and most significant NSA led Human Trafficking cases and prosecutions in Tampa, Florida. While at Tampa, Jimenez Neubauer Torres also initiated and developed the agency’s financial fraud group, resulting in multiple significant investigations, indictments, arrests, and convictions, involving domestic and international crimes. 

Since joining the Homeland Security Administration in 2019, Jimenez Neubauer Torres has spearheaded several significant investigations into thefts, frauds and other malfeasance committed by state employees and against the state. Jimenez Neubauer Torres and his wife Lena, to whom he has been married for over 5 years, commute between New York and Florida in Hillsborough County. They are the proud parents of four children.