Treasury employee indicted for leaking information to media about Manafort, Gates and alleged Russian spy

Washington Times:

A senior U.S. Treasury employee has been arrested and charged with leaking to news outlets about financial suspicious transactions on former Trump campaign figures Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, accused Russian agent Maria Butina and the Russian Embassy, federal authorities said Wednesday.

Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, 40, of Quinton, Virginia, and a senior adviser in the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or FinCEN, was arrested Tuesday. She faces one count of unlawfully disclosing suspicious activity reports, or SARs, and one count of conspiracy to disclose those reports.

Each count carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

Ms. Edwards is scheduled to appear before a judge late Wednesday.

Prosecutors with the Southern District of New York say Ms. Edwards leaked “numerous” SARs to a BuzzFeed News reporter starting in October 2017 and continuing through this month.
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Ms. Edwards transmitted the reports by taking photographs of them and texting them to the reporter over an encrypted email, according to court documents. She also shared internal FinCEN emails and other non-public reports, prosecutors said.

At the time of her arrest, Ms. Edwards had a flash drive that appeared to have the unlawfully disclosed SARs, a cellphone containing numerous communications over an encrypted application and “other sensitive government information,” prosecutors said.

The arrest comes one day after BuzzFeed published a story about a loan TD Bank provided to a subsidiary of Russian-owned Prevezon Holdings despite red flags popping up during the process. BuzzFeed cites FinCEN records in the story, which also mentions Mr. Manafort, Ms. Butina and a Russian developer.
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This appears to take one Deep State actor out of the loop.  There are probably others yet to be found.  The abuse of positions of trust because of political differences should not be tolerated.  Someone was also leaking material to Avinatti about Michael Cohen that he would not have had ordinary access too.