why. that s ronan s scoop tonight. you see the headline there. missing files motivated the leak of michael cohen s financial records. here is the story, quote, last week several news outlets obtained financial records showing that michael cohen, president trump s personal attorney, had used a shell company to receive payments from various firms of business before the trump administration. in the days since there has been much speculation about who leaked the confidential documents. the treasury department s inspector general has also launched a probe to find the source of the documents. it turns out ronan farrow has found the source of the documents. he reports that it is a law enforcement official. ronan is not disclosing the law enforcement official s identity, but he does explain the motivation that led to this official deciding to disclose the secret information, which was a serious decision to make. this is a fairly serious crime to disclose this sort of private information, on
got that financial information about michael cohen last week. cohen s financial information that was disclosed last week, it was itself big news, but what may end up being the bigger story here is how that financial information came to be public knowledge, who released it and why. that s ronan s scoop tonight. you see the headline there. missing files motived the leak of michael cohen s financial records. here is the story, quote, last week several news outlets obtained financial records showing that michael cohen, president trump s personal attorney, had used a shell company to receive payments from various firms of business before before the trump administration. in the days since there has been much speculation about who leaked confidential documents. the inspector general has also launched a probe to find the source of the documents. it turns out ronan farrow has found the source of the documents. he reports that it is a law enforcement official. ronan is not disclosing the law e
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