A new report from BuzzFeed News' Jason Leopold claims that the Treasury Department has restricted law enforcement's ability to access Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed on longtime Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
Three sources tell Leopold that Treasury Department officials have taken what they describe as a "highly unusual" step of restricting access to two Cohen-related SARs, which means that even "certain law enforcement agencies" will not have access to them. What's more, they say that such restrictions could have only come from the top of the Treasury Department.
A whistleblower who works at an unspecified law enforcement agency this week told the New Yorker's Ronan Farrow that they leaked out information about a Cohen-related SAR because they were highly disturbed that they could not access two other SARs that they claimed contained even more explosive information than the one report that was leaked out.
The source speculated that the records had been deleted, although it now appears from Leopold's report that the records have simply been restricted rather than removed outright.
