DEMOCRAT ARRESTED IN RUSSIA PROBE

U.S. Treasury official charged with leaks linked to Russia probe

(Reuters) - A U.S. Treasury Department official has been criminally charged with leaking confidential documents relating to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the Russian embassy and others, to a reporter from digital media company BuzzFeed, Manhattan federal prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Natalie May Edwards, a senior adviser in the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), was arrested on Tuesday and charged with unauthorized disclosure of suspicious activity reports and with conspiracy, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman. Both charges carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

Edwards, 40, was expected to make an initial appearance in Virginia federal court later in the day. A lawyer for Edwards could not immediately be reached for comment.

Matt Mittenthal, a spokesman for BuzzFeed, had no immediate comment.

Suspicious activity reports are submitted by banks to alert law enforcement to potentially illegal transactions. Prosecutors said that beginning in October 2017, Edwards disclosed suspicious activity reports connected to Manafort and his longtime associate Rick Gates, the Russian embassy and accused Russian agent Maria Butina.

The disclosures were reported in a series of articles in BuzzFeed related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of possible coordination between U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign and Russia, according to prosecutors.

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how big is this?

it will be brushed under the radar and no one will know about it

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Could it be grounds for Manafort to appeal?

OH SHIT SPUTNIK JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE

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it won't matter like that

but it will turn the gears onward within the investigation itself, which even though we have no luxury of getting to observe, is still being handled by some of our nation's biggest Gs

If evidence was improperly obtained or something perhaps.

Mueller is gonna expose israel

what the hell. he full name is Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards.
>“Dr. Edwards is the first Native American Indian whose family stayed in the Commonwealth of Virginia, raised participating in tribal affairs, and received her formal education through the Virginia public school system to earn the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. As an All-American–All-Academic softball player, she earned her B.S. in Biology & Medical Studies, minors in criminal justice/chemistry/physics.
she sound like a cia nigger

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