Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, whose disclosures about Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury made up much of the FinCEN Files, a project that illuminated global corruption around the world, was sentenced to six months in prison on June 3, 2021. Edwards was released from prison on January 24, 2022, according to reporting from BuzzFeed News. This as “about a month earlier than expected” – Edwards “will be on probation for three years,” the article states.

Edwards began working for the Treasury Department in 2014 as a Senior Advisor in the Intelligence Division “and had oversight in the financial crimes area, known as FinCEN,” according to one of several Whistleblower of the Week profiles on WNN. While on the job, she discovered documents about the Treasury “concealing information from Congress on certain individuals and entities that appeared to Edwards to be politically motivated,” previous WNN reporting states. Edwards approached the Treasury Department’s Inspector General about the illegal activity, but he dismissed her concerns.

In 2016, she “asked Congress to investigate her whistleblower information and protect her as a whistleblower,” but soon after began to experience retaliation from the Treasury Department, a WNN article reports. She continued to contact the Treasury Inspector General, then-Attorney General, and Congress in attempts to raise her concerns about the SARs.

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