A law enforcement official claims that two documents related to suspicious transactions by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, appear to have gone missing from a government database.
According to The New Yorker, authorities became worried after suspicious activity reports (SARs) pertaining to Cohen’s financial actions suddenly gone missing in a government database.
The official added that they released the remaining SAR because they were afraid the documents were being kept from law enforcement officials.
The law enforcement official said that the files were missing from the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
“I have never seen something pulled off the system,” the official said. “That system is a safeguard for the bank. It’s a stockpile of information. When something’s not there that should be, I immediately became concerned.”
“That’s why I came forward,” the official added.
The leaked documents first released by Michael Avenatti, the attorney for Stormy Daniels, showed that Cohen was paid large amounts of money from companies such as Novartis and AT&T, as well as an investment firm with connections to Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.
Novartis and AT&T released a statement saying that their payments to Essential Consultants LLC, Cohen’s shell company, came after Cohen offered them access to and insight on President Donald Trump.
“Why just those two missing?” the unnamed official asked The New Yorker. “That’s what alarms me the most.”
“To say that I am terrified right now would be an understatement,” the official said, thinking of the potential legal consequences he might face.
Essential Consultants is the same company through which Cohen paid the $130,000 to Daniels to keep quiet about an affair she had with Trump more than a decade ago.
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