US Treasury official arrested for leaking to BuzzFeed reporter

A U.S. Treasury Department employee was arrested Tuesday after unlawfully disclosing Suspicious Activity Reports, or SARs, about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates to a BuzzFeed News reporter.

Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, 40, a senior adviser at the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network known as FinCEN, is accused of sharing multiple SARs concerning Manafort and Gates, the Russian Embassy, and alleged Russian agent Maria Butina. The information was passed to a reporter starting in July 2017 and continuing until the present, according to a complaint filed in a Manhattan federal court on Tuesday.