Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, a former senior advisor at FinCEN who provided 2,100 SARs to BuzzFeed News that would form the basis of 2020’s “FinCEN Files” investigation, was sentenced to six months in prison.
The woman behind a record-breaking leak of U.S. Treasury files, providing an unprecedented view into transactions government investigators found suspicious, has been sentenced to six months in prison.
A former Treasury Department employee was sentenced to six months in prison Thursday for leaking more than 2,000 secret documents, including reports on money trails linked to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Former Treasury official sentenced to prison for leaking documents related to Russia and Manafort
A federal judge sentenced a former senior Treasury Department official to six months in prison after she pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy for disclosing sensitive financial transaction reports related to people tied to former President Donald Trump and Russia, including former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
According to federal prosecutors, Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards leaked the documents, known as Suspicious Activity Reports, to a reporter whom CNN has previously identified as working for BuzzFeed News.
Beginning in 2017, according to court documents, she leaked reports concerning Manafort, his business associate Rick Gates, the Russian Embassy and convicted Russian spy Maria Butina, among others.