https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/senior-treasury-employee-charged-with-leaking-documents-related-to-russia-probe/2018/10/17/74f67faa-d226-11e8-83d6-291fcead2ab1_story.html?utm_term=.6e43e332d425&noredirect=onArrest has been made in the leaking of suspicious activity reports, or SARs, to Buzzfeed news. It was the basis for this story;
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/trump-tower-meeting-suspicious-transactions-agalarovQuote
Prosecutors charged Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards with the unauthorized disclosure of suspicious activity reports and conspiracy. The charges were filed in federal court in New York but she is scheduled to make her first court appearance in Northern Virginia, officials said.
Edwards works as a senior advisor at the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, often referred to as “FinCEN.”
Geoffrey S. Berman, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said Edwards “betrayed her position of trust by repeatedly disclosing highly sensitive information.”
The stories cited in the criminal complaint filed against Edwards match the headlines, wording, and information contained in Buzzfeed News stories, though the court papers did not identify the company by name.
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Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, a 40-year-old senior advisor in Treasury's financial crimes enforcement network, will face criminal charges in New York. Edwards, who was arrested Tuesday, is due to appear before a judge in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia later Wednesday.
The criminal complaint against Edwards says that she started leaking "numerous" so-called suspicious activity reports, known as SARS, in October 2017 to a reporter, and continued doing so until this month.
The unidentified journalist then wrote about a dozen articles which mentioned the details of those reports, according to the complaint. Articles cited in the complaint carry the bylines of Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier, two reporters at BuzzFeed, among other journalists at the media outlet.
At the time of her arrest, according to federal prosecutors in Manhattan, she "was in possession of a flash drive appearing to be the flash drive on which she saved the unlawfully disclosed SARs, and a cellphone containing numerous communications over an encrypted application in which she transmitted SARs and other sensitive government information to" the reporter.
She is charged in a criminal complaint with unlawfully disclosing SARS, and conspiracy to do the same.
Caught red-handed. Was not only the original leaker but continued to leak until present day.Senior level at FinCEN
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