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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.”

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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 cell phone 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.

Edwards, 40, was due to appear in court in the Eastern District of Virginia in a hearing Wednesday afternoon. She is charged with one count of unauthorized disclosures of suspicious activity reports and one count of conspiracy to make unauthorized disclosures of suspicious activity reports, both of which carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

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  • Alice Cokefair says:

    Sorry, but 10 years is NOT enough for attempted treason against this country, for that was her intent when she committed these crimes. This was not just leaking random Americans tax info, it was specifically targeting those involved in the Trump presidential campaign.

  • Leroy Sorensen says:

    She should be hung ! Then just continue on with the rest of the Deep State! 1

  • Tim McRae says:

    Why two charges? If she leaked 12 documents she should be charged 12 times!

    Thats what happens to anyone else!

    What about the moron that published the senators homw addresses. That a-hole should be locked up by now!

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