Posted on 10/17/2018 12:15:11 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
A Treasury employee has been arrested and charged with leaking multiple reports about financial transactions relating to former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort, campaign official Richard Gates, accused Russian agent Maria Butina and the Russian Embassy, federal law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards is accused of illegally photographing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARS) -- which are sent by banks and other financial institutions to alert law enforcement to potential illegal activity -- and leaking them to the press. Edwards worked as a senior adviser at the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), according to a press release by the Southern District of New York.
“In her position, Edwards was entrusted with sensitive government information. As we allege here today, Edwards violated that trust when she made several unauthorized disclosures to the media,” FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. said in a statement. “Today's action demonstrates that those who fail to protect the integrity of government information will be rightfully held accountable for their behavior.”
Edwards is accused of disclosing numerous SARs to a reporter, which formed the substance of 12 articles by that reporter’s news outlet. According to the Southern District, she was in possession of a flash drive on which she appeared to have saved the SARS, as well as a cellphone which she allegedly used to transmit the information to the reporter.
Manafort pleaded guilty to charges of bank and tax fraud in September and struck a deal that includes cooperation with FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
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The arrests are starting....
“Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards”
Oy.
MUST go to PRISON, IMO.
She used the Terrorist Financial Tracking tools to go after the Trump Campaign.
This was all part of the Democrats attempts to derail Trump, she should get some HEAVY PRISON TIME for this.
Agreed. This is one way to drain the swamp. Show we are serious at severely prosecuting leakers. Those who we entrust with our government must be trustworthy.
I wonder if this is one of the people leaking insider financial information to members of Congress?
Liberal Bitch going down.
That should be a capital crime. You execute a couple of these clowns and the rest of the clowns will think twice about trying it.
I hoping for the same for Mueller’s leakers, before the election.
WHO IS THE REPORTER SHE LEAKED TO????
WHO IS THAT??
UPDATE: Located within the indictment documents – there is also a Co-Conspirator. It appears Ms. Sours-Edwards’ boss was also in on the plot to leak the information. [See Page #13 of the indictment]
WHO IS THE REPORTER SHE LEAKED TO????
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
For starters:
It is highly likely Ms. Edwards was the Treasury Department source for a myriad of resistance articles written by multiple journalists. Some of the more transparently obvious examples come from Buzzfeed via Jason Leopold, in addition to Ronan Farrow:
WHO IS THE REPORTER SHE LEAKED TO????
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
For starters:
It is highly likely Ms. Edwards was the Treasury Department source for a myriad of resistance articles written by multiple journalists. Some of the more transparently obvious examples come from Buzzfeed via Jason Leopold, in addition to Ronan Farrow:
And Anthony Cormier.
This moron had an AMA on Reddit R/Pol a couple of weeks ago, patting himself on the back for his “Insider Sources”, and that is how she was likely tracked and arrested.
Indictment PDF ...
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1101511/download
Natalie is in deep doo doo (and I only started reading from page 13).
I wouldn’t trust her with a 10 foot poll.
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