SLAM: Ex-Treasury Employee Pleads Guilty And Gets Jail Time For Leaking Info On Trump’s Campaign
Officials, people in the administration, and people from the inside state institutions can do immense damage with their everyday information…
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The punishment for them should be harder than the one sentenced for the average citizen.
According to 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.”
Ex-Treasury employee gets prison for leaks on Trump campaign officials https://t.co/Bbec8lEYeb pic.twitter.com/NdXNfbODLQ
— Reuters Business (@ReutersBiz) June 3, 2021
Before being sentenced, she called herself a whistleblower who went to the media after uncovering suspicious conduct elsewhere at the Treasury Department.
Federal prosecutor Kimberly Ravener said that 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 claims.
Prosecutors said Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards shared her information with a journalist who then shared thousands of suspicious activity reports with publications worldwide. https://t.co/SI5opTllHR
— WAFF 48 (@waff48) June 4, 2021
A former Treasury Department official was sentenced to six months in prison on Thursday after she admitted to providing highly confidential banking documents to a BuzzFeed News reporter. https://t.co/4IpNJBSRdK
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) June 3, 2021
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.”
I agree!
