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Ex-Treasury staffer Natalie Edwards pleads guilty to leaking secrets
NY Post ^ | 1/13/2020 | Emily Saul

Posted on 01/13/2020 4:05:03 PM PST by RightGeek

The former US Treasury Department staffer accused of leaking confidential information to a reporter pleaded guilty Monday to a single count of conspiracy.

Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards admitted before Manhattan federal court Judge Gregory Woods to spilling secrets to a Buzzfeed reporter about the Mueller investigation and probes into Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and Russian agent Maria Butina.

The 41-year-old’s plea comes as she was approaching trial on charges including conspiracy to make unauthorized disclosures between October 2017 and October 2018 while working for the treasury department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

Prosecutors accused the Virginia woman, who was arrested in 2018, of passing along suspicious activity reports to a journalist. SARs are used to flag financial transactions that could indicate criminal conduct.

“I agreed to disclose a SAR knowing I was not allowed under the law to disclose it,” she told Woods during her emotional plea.

The information she passed along via encrypted app led to at least 12 articles, authorities said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deepstate; emilysaul; leak; media; mueller; natalieedwards; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost
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It's a start, but it is not enough.
1 posted on 01/13/2020 4:05:03 PM PST by RightGeek
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She better get years in jail for this.
2 posted on 01/13/2020 4:06:31 PM PST by Chgogal (Never underestimate the stupidity of a DummycRAT voter. Proof: California, New York, Illinois.)
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I liked it better when the Mayflower Madam was running whores that then running information from the IRS.


3 posted on 01/13/2020 4:08:08 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Democrat Party is the Autocrat Party!)
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To: RightGeek

The name on the application alone should of set off warning bells. What the heck is this?

Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards


4 posted on 01/13/2020 4:13:08 PM PST by MNJohnnie (They would have abandon leftism to achieve sanity. Freeper Olog-hai)
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To: RightGeek

Our Govt Crime stopper types committing crimes worse then they ruin fellow Americans for. These damn AFGE punks are PURE TRASH.


5 posted on 01/13/2020 4:15:06 PM PST by Lumper20 (09Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and AFGE union insurance..)
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To: RightGeek
never trust anybody with three last names
6 posted on 01/13/2020 4:15:13 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: RightGeek

It’s a start, but it is not enough.


Who instructed her to do it? Hopefully she rollled on that individual...


7 posted on 01/13/2020 4:17:58 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("itYou can avoid reality, but I'm you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: RightGeek

It’s a start, but it is not enough.
Bears repeating


8 posted on 01/13/2020 4:23:17 PM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards
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Probably some “family” names included here.


9 posted on 01/13/2020 4:23:39 PM PST by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENTLY)
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>>>She better get years in jail for this.

You very funny.


10 posted on 01/13/2020 4:29:41 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: MNJohnnie

The name on the application alone should of set off warning bells. What the heck is this?

Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards


She shortened her name. It use to be Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards Vazquez McGregor Smith-Klein


11 posted on 01/13/2020 4:35:33 PM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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Trump should have fired every female holdover on day one.

Especially the fat ones.


12 posted on 01/13/2020 4:58:06 PM PST by montag813
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Guilty.


13 posted on 01/13/2020 5:13:24 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: RightGeek

Punish the monkeys.

Let the organ grinders go.


14 posted on 01/13/2020 5:25:28 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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And she wins whatever is behind Door #3...

IT'S A BRAND NEW CAR!

15 posted on 01/13/2020 5:36:54 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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What about the reporter? Both should be thrown into prison for a long, long time.


16 posted on 01/13/2020 5:44:02 PM PST by richardtavor
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More info about here here:

https://heavy.com/news/2018/10/natalie-mayflower-sours-edwards/

She does not appear to be a doctrinaire leftist. She opposed what happened to Kavanaugh.

17 posted on 01/13/2020 5:45:16 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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here here > her here


18 posted on 01/13/2020 5:45:48 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards ....

What a friggin name...


19 posted on 01/13/2020 5:53:26 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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>>What about the reporter? Both should be thrown into prison for a long, long time.<<

I agree. What about the reporter. Didn’t it receive information knowing it was illegal?


20 posted on 01/13/2020 6:00:29 PM PST by devane617 (Kyrie Eleison, where I'm going, will you follow?)
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