Friday, May 18, 2018

Cohen bank report leaker apparently known...

The identity of the law enforcement official who supplied details of Michael Cohen’s banking activities to media-savvy lawyer Michael Avenatti probably won’t remain secret for long, according to people who work in the field.
Anyone who gains access to the government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network database of bank-generated suspicious activity reports, known as SARs, leaves an audit trail, they explained. So whoever searched for FinCEN reports filed against personal or business accounts associated with Cohen, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, left a digital record that is almost certainly under review.
The individual provided an explanation for the leak in an interview with Ronan Farrow of the New Yorker, who referred to the person as an official and not as a man or woman. The official says that he grew alarmed that he was unable to find two earlier reports made by First Republic Bank about transactions in Cohen’s consulting account and that he feared information was being withheld from law enforcement officials.
According to people involved in SARs work, reports don’t vanish from the FinCEN database, either. Sometimes they are restricted, for example when the disclosure might compromise a criminal investigation, or when they involve a law enforcement employee who might himself be suspected of corruption or other wrongdoing.

So, the bottom line was that it was (as suspected) a Government official who leaked the information about Michael Cohen's bank records. The Government official apparently sees themselves as some sort of whistle blower who felt they were exposing some sort of cover up. But according to their own procedures and guidelines, the more plausible explanation would be that the reports were not missing, but rather had restricted access due to a possible criminal investigation.

It becomes increasingly difficult to trust and defend our law enforcement community when they continue to see themselves as above the law.

19 comments:

Loretta said...

"It becomes increasingly difficult to trust and defend our law enforcement community when they continue to see themselves as above the law."

Oh that ship sailed when Comey made the political decisions in 2016.

Myballs said...

No. That ship sailed when eric holder became AG.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

If Clinton had won the election I would doubt that you would have any concerns as to the integrity of the law enforcement system if a leaker had released information detrimental to the President.

Hypocrisy is CHT

Myballs said...

You don't get to make accusations based on a hypothetical that never happened.

Loretta said...

Never happened and won't ever happen.

caliphate4vr said...

You can when you gone stark raving mad

C.H. Truth said...

So Rog...

Just so I understand.

You basically make up something about me that I haven't done, regarding a hypothetical situation that doesn't even exist...

And then based on your hypothetical opinionated allegations from out of the clear blue sky with absolutely zero fundamental truth to the claim... demand that I am a hypocrite?

Anonymous said...

You nailed broken Old Rog. To the woodshed again.

Myballs said...

Why is the doj giving more information to ny times and wapo than to congress?

Good question.

Anonymous said...



Hypocrisy is CHT


so start your OWN blog you alcoholic, piece of shit, hack.

for chrissakes, you have all the time in the world. pull together your 4 twitter followers and show us what you're made of.

Anonymous said...

HB, start your own blog, tell us what it is and I promise to abuse it daily like you and jane do here.

Anonymous said...

Was any of those in the Obimbo Clown Kar Not an as hole piece of shit?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

You use a hypothetical situation to declare the FBI/DOJ practice partisan investigations. Answer the question. Do you have irrefutable evidence that supports your allegations?

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

594 followers

C.H. Truth said...

Yeah Rog...

The allegations are being made by Inspector Generals who are investigating the behavior of the FBI...

That is hardly hypothetical.

Do you even know what hypothetical even is?

Anonymous said...

Lol

Loretta said...

"594 followers"

LOL.

With zero retweets.

Anonymous said...

His followers a generated paid for ones.

Loretta said...

"Do you even know what hypothetical even is?"

Nope!