Manafort
SAR Leaker Edwards Secrets
Opposed by Inner City Press
Now Yemen Clinton China
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video,
thread,
Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Aug 5 –
The U.S. Treasury employee
accused in October 2018 of
leaking Suspicious Activity
Reports about Paul Manafort
and others, Natalie Edwards,
pleaded guilty to one count on
January 13, 2020 before U.S.
District Court Southern
District of New York Judge
Gregory H. Woods.
Edwards
got a plea agreement for
between zero and six months
and a $9500 fine which her
lawyer afterward told Inner
City Press was a standard
fine. Video here;
live tweeted thread
of plea proceeding here.
More on Patreon here.
On August
4, Inner City Press filed its
second opposition to the
attempt to make Edwards'
submissions to SDNY Judge
Woods disappear as supposedly
not judicial documents. A day
later, Inner City Press'
submission has not been
docketed; the US Attorney's
Office / DOJ is silent on this
attempted disappearance of
evidence.
In this
context it may be useful to
consider a document signed
"May Edwards" which says she
has and has submitted
information on questions
including "Yemen (2015),"
Libya, Iran, China, Maria
Butina and the Clinton
Foundation, photo
1 here, 2
here.
If this is
public, what is the basis of
trying to disappear in full
what Edwards filed? One
argument made is attorney
client. But if Edwards now has
a free / government paid
lawyer, trying to hide
documents, who was paying for
Brafman & Associates?
Inner City Press entirely
opposes the disappearance of
these judicial documents,
submitted to SDNY Judge
Gregory Woods. Watch this
site.
Background: On
July 21 Judge Woods held a 5
pm proceeding at which he was
asked to treat Edwards'
filings as if they had never
been filed, and withhold them
from the Press and public.
Inner City Press
immediately filed opposition,
to Judge Woods chambers,
copying the new defense lawyer
Stephanie M. Carvlin and AUSA
Daniel Richenthal, below.
On July 22,
after docketing Inner City
Press' letter or application,
Judge Woods to his
credit provided time to
Edwards or her lawyer to
respond: "ORDER as to Natalie
Mayflower Sours Edwards. On
July 21, 2020, a
representative of Inner City
Press requested that the Court
file on the public docket of
this case copies of materials
that the defendant had
previously submitted to the
Court ex parte. See
Dkt. No. 60.... The Court
directs that counsel for the
defendant respond to the
application no later than July
30, 2020. To the extent that
the United States wishes to be
heard with respect to the
application it is directed to
respond by the same date. Any
reply in support of the
application must be filed no
later than August 6, 2020."
Now on
August 4, Inner City Press has
filed its reply, here
- which after 23 hours has
still not been docketed. Watch
this site.
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