“Immediately” after downloading the reports, Fry called a phone number associated with Avenatti, the agent said.
DC: An analyst with the Internal Revenue Service was charged Thursday with leaking the financial records of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
An affidavit submitted in the case reveals that John C. Fry, the analyst, placed several phone calls to attorney Michael Avenatti before and after he accessed Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) that had been filed by Cohen’s banks with the Treasury Department.
Avenatti, an attorney for Stormy Daniels, had posted a dossier of Cohen’s financial reports on May 8, 2018. The records showed that Cohen received payments from several companies, including Novartis and AT&T, as well as a company associated with Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian oligarch.
The documents released by Avenatti also contained financial records of a different Michael Cohen.
According to an FBI agent’s affidavit, Fry first accessed the IRS’s database of SARs on May 4, 2018 and downloaded five documents related to Cohen. “Immediately” after downloading the reports, Fry called a phone number associated with Avenatti, the agent said.
Minutes after that phone call ended, Fry conducted several more searches of Cohen’s records.
Avenatti denied doing anything wrong by having contact with Fry.
Any relation to Lois Lerner?
Good man now leak Trumps.
This just gets better
Knowingly accepting confidential goverment documents. Are there laws for that? Love to see this guy pay for his arrogance.
Hey Maxine, eat my shorts!
Time to look into financial shenanigans of Maxine and her husband. The prison guards who’d have to put up with Maxine should be paid extra.
Internal Revenge Service… SHOCK !!
Not a big surprise about the IRS giving private records out for damage to Trump and friends. The big surprise is that it somehow made it to the news. A bigger surprise would be if punishment is any thing more than a slap on the hand.
@Perry FEBRUARY 21, 2019 AT 10:11 PM
“Not a big surprise about the IRS giving private records out for damage to Trump and friends. The big surprise is that it somehow made it to the news.”
Well, it’s the Daily Caller, not exactly Breaking News on the alphabet networks.
Just another day in the deep swamp.