Senior Treasury Department Employee Charged with Unlawful Disclosure of Suspicious Activity Reports

Mikhaila Fogel
Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 12:28 PM

On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the arrest of a senior employee at the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN.

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On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced the arrest of a senior employee at the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN. Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards has been charged with unlawfully disclosing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) to members of the media and for conspiring to unlawfully disclose information in violation of 31 CFR §1023.320(e)(2), 31 USC §5322, 18 USC §371 and 18 USC §2. SARs are filed to Treasury in confidence by financial institutions to alert law enforcement to potentially suspect activity. The criminal complaint is below:

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Mikhaila Fogel was an associate editor at Lawfare and a research analyst at the Brookings Institution. She previously worked as a legislative correspondent for national security and foreign affairs issues in the Office of Sen. Susan Collins. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, where she majored in history and literature and minored in government and Arabic.

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