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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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.
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LOL! They’re not sending their best ....... :-)
THANKS!!
The unauthorized disclosure of Suspicious Activity Reports is not only a violation of federal criminal law, but it undermines the very purpose for which the suspicious activity reporting system was created - the protection
of our financial system through the prevention, detection, and prosecution of financial crimes and terrorist financing. The unauthorized disclosure of Suspicious Activity Reports can compromise the national security of the United States as well as threaten the safety and security of those institutions and individuals who file such reports. The Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group is committed to continuing to work with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the federal functional regulatory agencies, law enforcement, and the financial services industry to ensure that the information contained in Suspicious Activity Reports is safeguarded, and that anyone who makes an intentional, unauthorized disclosure of a Suspicious Activity Report is brought to justice, whether that person is inside or outside of the Government.
https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/guidance/unauthorizeddisclosureofbanksar.pdf
Let’s have the Saudis “interrogate” her. Results may be interesting.
Outstanding. It’s a start...
I think she’s kinda hot. “Naughty Librarian”
This is truly a sad day. FinCEN has had nothing less than the most sterling of reputations.
Accomplice???
Testimony for the Record
Thomas P. Ott
Associate Director, Enforcement Division
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
U.S. Department of the Treasury
House Committee on Financial Services
Subcommittee on Terrorism and Illicit Finance
June 20, 2018
Introduction...Financial Crimes Enforcement Network FinCEN. FinCEN’s mission is to safeguard the
financial system from illicit use and to promote national security through the collection, analysis,
and dissemination of financial intelligence.
Is it? I found this online:
A Federal criminal case can begin one of two ways – with the filing of a criminal complaint or of an indictment. A criminal complaint is a document prepared by the US Attorney’s office in conjunction with the law enforcement agency that investigated the case (FBI, IRS, Secret Service, etc.). It is presented to a Federal Magistrate Judge who determines if there is probable cause to know that a Federal crime was committed and that the person charged committed it. A person can’t be convicted solely based upon a criminal complaint. It is just a placeholder, allowing the government to begin a criminal case. Once it is filed and the defendant becomes aware of it, the government has 30 days to present the case to a Grand Jury for an indictment to enable the case to move forward.
Individual states can evidently have their own procedures for state crimes.
Of note is the fact that this "criminal complaint" does not imply any prior activity by a grand jury. As others have posted, the supervisor of the charged person was also in contact with the reporter mentioned in the complaint. Somebody may be lawyering up as we speak.
Do you want the combo or just the sandwich?
I was looking for some way to title the link I was posting .... from the website that had the link, it said:
“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]”
SO, I just called it “indictment PDF” based on that wording and nothing else.
Wow. Thanks.
Wow.
That was my first thought too. Her eyes!
How many counts. Too small to read on cell phone
Two counts.
COUNT ONE
Unauthorized Disclosure of Suspicious Activity Reports
COUNT TWO
Conspiracy to Make Unauthorized Disclosures of Suspicious Activity Reports
Thank you so much.
Per Reddit, this criminal moron’s boss, and likey CO-CONSPIRATOR is Thomas Ott, Bruce Ohr’s former deputy at DOJ.
Yup, I read most of it. This could get really interesting if she flips. This babe is going down! Very detailed probable cause document. And there is so much more they didn’t include.
Per Reddit, this criminal moron’s boss, and likey CO-CONSPIRATOR is Thomas Ott, Bruce Ohr’s former deputy at DOJ.
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Pardon me for waxing poetic:
“Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”
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