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Arrest of FinCEN Employee for Unlawful Disclosure of SARs and SAR Information - Lexology

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According to the complaint, in October 2017, Edwards downloaded thousands of FinCEN files containing highly sensitive information relating to Russia, Iran and terrorist groups such as ISIS, to a flash drive. Edwards does not appear to have been involved in any official projects or tasks relating to these files. Throughout the course of 2018, Edwards unlawfully disclosed numerous SARs — and emails and investigative memoranda related to the SARs — to a reporter by taking photos of the SARs and texting them to the reporter through an encrypted application.

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