A former senior Treasury official was sentenced to six months in federal prison for leaking sensitive financial information about Paul Manafort and others
A federal judge sentenced a former senior U.S. Treasury Department official to six months in federal prison for leaking a trove of sensitive financial information about Paul Manafort and others, capping a case that emerged from a Trump administration crackdown on government leaks to journalists.
Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, who served as a senior adviser in the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN,to one count of conspiracy to make unauthorized disclosure of “suspicious activity reports,” known as SARs, which banks are required to file to FinCEN. Manhattan federal prosecutors said Ms. Edwards sent tens of thousands of Treasury records—including bank-activity reports and sensitive analysis about former Trump campaign officials, as well as Russian diplomatic accounts and terrorist group financing—to a reporter at BuzzFeed News.
The materials resulted in at least a dozen articles about Mr. Manafort and others, prosecutors said, and formed the basis of BuzzFeed News’—a database published by BuzzFeed News and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists last September, months after Ms. Edwards’s guilty plea, “She abused a position of trust,” said U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods, adding that Ms. Edwards “may have made our country less safe.” The judge also imposed a three-year term of supervised release.
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