Treasury official pleads guilty to SARS leaks about ex-Trump campaign chief Manafort, Russians
A former U.S. Treasury official pleaded guilty to illegally leaking highly confidential documents about suspicious financial transactions of ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and others to reporters at BuzzFeed News.
The official, Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, leaked so-called suspicious activity reports, or SARS, about Manafort, his business associate and fellow Trump campaign official Rick Gates, Russian agent Maria Butina, the Russian Embassy in Moscow and a suspected Russian money-laundering entity starting in October 2017 and continued doing so for the next year, prosecutors have said.
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