Document Leak Puts Ex-Treasury Official Away 6 Months

Emilee Larkin reports: A federal judge handed a six-month prison sentence Thursday to a former Treasury official who painted herself as a whistleblower for leaking government records about targets of Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. “I understand she viewed herself as a whistleblower,” U.S. District Judge Gregory Woods said at the hearing this afternoon in Manhattan. “But I’m not focused on that because blowing the whistle through property channels is important. But we are not here because Dr. Edwards blew the whistle about areas of concern through the proper channels.” Read more on Courthouse News.DataBreaches.netRead More