(June 4): A former senior U.S. Treasury Department adviser was sentenced to six months in jail for leaking confidential financial records involving Paul Manafort and others to a reporter. “When I physically saw corruption in the Treasury Department, I could not stand by aimlessly as this would be a violation of my oath of office,” she said. Prosecutors say she leaked more than 50,000 documents, including 2,000 suspicious-activity reports, or SARs, beginning in the summer of 2017. And leaking the SARs had nothing to do with any efforts to expose problems in the Treasury Department, he said. Edwards, of Quinton, Virginia, asked for no jail time, claiming the leak was related to what she claimed were her efforts to blow the whistle on corruption within the Treasury Department.
