Mnuchin said the department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, known as FinCEN, does have the power to 'suppress important information' at the request of law enforcement agencies. The New Yorker magazine reported last week that a law enforcement official leaked information about Cohen's bank records to several media organizations. Did someone delete suspicious financial activity reports about Michael Cohen? Steven Mnuchin told senators a probe was under way by his department's inspector generalThat information showed a Cohen company getting large payments from organizations seeking to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration. The payments included money from pharmaceutical giant Novartis, telecommunications company AT&T and from a company associated with a Russian billionaire.

Source: Daily Mail May 22, 2018 19:37 UTC