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Quote:(Reuters) A former senior U.S. Treasury Department employee who pleaded guilty to conspiring to give a reporter sensitive information about Donald Trump’s onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort and others was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison.

Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, a former senior adviser in Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods in Manhattan.

Edwards was accused of making unauthorized disclosures of suspicious activity reports (SARs) – used by banks to alert law enforcement to potential money laundering and other crimes – to a BuzzFeed News reporter using an encrypted messaging program.

Prosecutors said the more than 2,000 reports leaked over one year concerned Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates, who both oversaw Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, as well as the Russian embassy in Washington and other individuals.

The reports were a basis for articles concerning former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.

Edwards, 43, of Quinton, Virginia, had sought no prison time, after being charged in October 2018 and pleading guilty in January 2020.

Before being sentenced, she called herself a whistleblower who went to the media after uncovering suspicious conduct elsewhere at the Treasury Department.

Citing principles from her American Indian background, she said before being sentenced she could not “stand by” in silence but apologized for her disclosures.

Woods said “blowing the whistle through proper channels is an incredibly valuable exercise,” but that Edwards went too far by disclosing about 50,000 records, including the SARs.

“Dr. Sours Edwards decided to abuse her position of trust,” he said.

Federal prosecutor Kimberly Ravener said Edwards’ “rampant disclosure of private information” was “unparalleled” in FinCEN history, and could have a chilling effect on banks’ willingness to file detailed SARs.

“She claimed that she followed procedure. But she made up her own,” Ravener said.

Edwards was also sentenced to three years supervised release.

The BuzzFeed reporter, Jason Leopold, was not accused of wrongdoing.

He embraced Edwards after meeting her outside the courthouse following the sentencing.

U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: “Today’s sentence demonstrates that public servants who abuse the power entrusted to them will face steep consequences for their actions. Maintaining the confidentiality of SARs, which are filed by banks and other financial institutions to alert law enforcement to potentially illegal transactions, is critical to preserve the integrity of myriad investigations, and the financial privacy of individuals. Government employees entrusted with such highly sensitive information owe a duty to safeguard that information. The defendant abused that trust to serve her own purposes, broke the law, and now faces time in federal prison for her actions.”

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Hope it was worth it "doctor". 6 months and 3 years probation, nice work!

Hope those student loans for that doctoral are all paid off too, you'll be cleaning houses for the foreseeable future.

And, this I found pretty amusing "Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates, who both oversaw Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign".

How long were those two there? A cup of coffee or so? Maybe a coke and some fried chicken?
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(06-04-2021 03:11 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  Hope it was worth it "doctor". 6 months and 3 years probation, nice work!

Hope those student loans for that doctoral are all paid off too, you'll be cleaning houses for the foreseeable future.

And, this I found pretty amusing "Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates, who both oversaw Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign".

How long were those two there? A cup of coffee or so? Maybe a coke and some fried chicken?

Milkshake.
06-04-2021 03:24 PM
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Sacrificial Lamb, but still guilty. Fitting she played the race card too. Leaves no doubt to her political leanings.
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(06-04-2021 03:11 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  Hope it was worth it "doctor". 6 months and 3 years probation, nice work!

Hope those student loans for that doctoral are all paid off too, you'll be cleaning houses for the foreseeable future.
Doubtful.

She only needs 1 friend or sympathetic ally at virtually any college/university or Soros-funded group to feel sorry for her and give her some sort of “job”. Not saying it’s guaranteed, and not saying she will get rich on the deal. But I sure would not bet against it. These people look after each other. It really is the most notable difference between Left and Right in this country, imho.
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Good that she got jail.
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Maybe she'll lose some weight there. It'll do her good...you know for her health. 03-wink
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Did she lose her cushy government job?


BTW, I recall reading articles of people trying to avoid the $10,000 reporting trigger. They would make deposits of $9,600, $9,200, etc. But even those would trigger reporting as "attempts to bypass reporting".

So the $10,000 criteria is not a hard trigger.

But then I heard that the trigger amount was revised. And I just found this:

Quote:SAR Threshold and Trigger

Question: We have a customer whose behavior is suspicious. However, there is no loss to the bank. We can't decide whether to file a SAR as several people believe that we haven't met the $5,000 threshold. What should we do?

Answer: First, the threshold. The filing thresholds for known and unknown suspects trigger mandatory filing. However, you may always file when less money is involved - or known about. Now for the loss issue. Financial loss to the institution is not a prerequisite for filing a SAR. The suspicious activity is the trigger. The steps you must take include evaluating the customer's activity and determining whether it is suspicious. If so, you report it. You must report if you know who the suspect is and the funds involve $5000 or more. You may report it if the amount is less than $5,000. But financial loss to the institution is not one of the criteria.


So now the magic number is $5,000. And the individual can flag basically anything if he or she thinks it's suspicious.
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(06-04-2021 07:00 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  Maybe she'll lose some weight there. It'll do her good...you know for her health. 03-wink

Its amazing how Trump has healing effects on people.
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If you do the crime you must do the time.
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(06-05-2021 12:19 PM)umbluegray Wrote:  Did she lose her cushy government job?


BTW, I recall reading articles of people trying to avoid the $10,000 reporting trigger. They would make deposits of $9,600, $9,200, etc. But even those would trigger reporting as "attempts to bypass reporting".

So the $10,000 criteria is not a hard trigger.

But then I heard that the trigger amount was revised. And I just found this:

Quote:SAR Threshold and Trigger

Question: We have a customer whose behavior is suspicious. However, there is no loss to the bank. We can't decide whether to file a SAR as several people believe that we haven't met the $5,000 threshold. What should we do?

Answer: First, the threshold. The filing thresholds for known and unknown suspects trigger mandatory filing. However, you may always file when less money is involved - or known about. Now for the loss issue. Financial loss to the institution is not a prerequisite for filing a SAR. The suspicious activity is the trigger. The steps you must take include evaluating the customer's activity and determining whether it is suspicious. If so, you report it. You must report if you know who the suspect is and the funds involve $5000 or more. You may report it if the amount is less than $5,000. But financial loss to the institution is not one of the criteria.


So now the magic number is $5,000. And the individual can flag basically anything if he or she thinks it's suspicious.

Devil's Dictionary entry on SAR:

SAR - officially "suspicious activity report", unofficially "suspected augmentation of revenue" - noun - A form filled out by your local little brother and little sister to helpfully make sure big brother has total visibility into all of your financial holdings, assets, and transactions to make sure they're optimally taxed.
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