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source:  goodnewspilipinas.com, dated 8/30/09

Filipino-American US Deputy Marshal Roland Ubaldo is now the official spokesman of the US Marshals Service in New York.

The 31-year-old federal officer also promoted in July to a supervisory rank led federal marshals in the widely-covered seizure of the $7.8-million Manhattan penthouse of multi-billion Ponzi swindler Bernard Madoff and the eviction of his socialite wife Ruth.

“My bosses said they liked what they saw and how we handled the media,” said Ubaldo, referring to the smooth and orderly seizing of the luxurious penthouse and his TV appearance addressing members of the press on the stairs of Madoff’s Upper East apartment building last July 2.

Ubaldo, whose official title is now Supervisory Deputy United States Marshal, was born to Filipino immigrants Rolando Ubaldo of Singalong, Manila and Grace Mortel Ubaldo of Quezon City. Both parents are retired New York City employees and now reside in Florida. His younger brother is connected with Sony Music Entertainment in New York, while a sister works at a Pennsylvania insurance firm.

He was only 10 the last time he set foot in the Philippines. “I can hardly remember it, I was so young,” said Ubaldo, who doesn’t speak Tagalog but understands it “very well.” “But I want to go there again one day.”

Ubaldo took criminal justice at Middlesex County College in New Jersey while working as night manager at Embassy Suites Hotel, also in Middlesex. After graduation, he served the US Marine Corps for six years before joining the U.S. Marshals in 2001.

“The US Marshal service is very prestigious and not many people know it’s the oldest law enforcement agency in the country,” he said.

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