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30 Jul, 5 tweets, 3 min read
"She is one of the most important whistleblowers of our era, and yet hardly anyone remembers her name."

Let's change that. Today is National Whistleblower Day. Say hello to May Edwards (@3_Whistleblower), whose disclosures formed the basis of #FinCENFiles
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
On Monday, @3_Whistleblower reports to federal prison. Her disclosures related to global financial corruption and our investigation changed anti money laundering laws around the world.

esquire.com/news-politics/…
Please support the sacrifices she made in the public interest

gofundme.com/f/treasury-whi…
"The recent case of Treasury official Natalie Mayflower Edwards Sour demonstrates the onerous lengths whistleblowers need to go to be heard and the risks they face for speaking out."

newrepublic.com/article/162903…
Well isn't that nice

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25 Jul
It's been 5 painful years. On July 25, 2016, my brother Eric died. He was brutally murdered on the pathway leading to the front door of his house. Every single day since then, I have struggled with my own grief.
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So to alleviate my feelings of despair, I threw myself into my work. Reporting helped me forget how powerless I felt during the probe into my brother's murder and took my mind off of the trauma I had experienced.
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11 Jun
Last week, Natalie May Edwards, my source, whose disclosures formed the basis of @BuzzFeedNews & @ICIJorg 16-month global investigation, #FinCENFiles, was sentenced to 6 months in prison

Today, #FinCENFiles was named a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize in inernational reporting
Thank you to the Pulitzer committee for honoring our work as a finalist and for recognizing the sacrifice made by our source, Natalie May Edwards. Congratulations to my @BuzzFeedNews & @ICIJorg colleagues and the 100s of journalists around the world who worked on #FinCENFiles.
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5 Jun
This is the headline in The National Law Review just 1 day after whistleblower Natalie May Edwards was sentenced to prison for exposing corruption on a global scale w/#FinCENFiles, which led to investigations and major reform in the US & around the world natlawreview.com/article/whistl…
This article centers around Biden's anti corruption memo that he issued during Natalie May Edwards sentencing on Thursday.

One of the specific objectives of the Biden memo is to “combat all forms of illicit finance in the United States and international financial systems"
The National Law Review article goes on to say: Whistleblowers Can Play a Critical Role in Combating Money Laundering

That's exactly what Natalie May Edwards did. Speaking in court ahead of her sentence she said she “could not stand by aimlessly” when she saw corruption Image
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1 Jun
NEW: @natalierbett & I are joining WaPo's #FOIA party on Anthony Fauci's #COVID19 emails but we're adding 2400 more pages and we're releasing all of the docs so everyone can read them. It covers Jan through June 2020.

Here's our story & docs
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A handful of these Fauci emails I previewed in tweets earlier this year as I received them via #FOIA

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Our story today captures a different set of Fauci emails covered by the WaPo, such as these Obama's former health advisor Emanuel Ezekiel sent Fauci and Fauci's response.

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7 May
Via my #FOIA: Here's former DOJ spox Sarah Flores providing a reporter a comment on deep background about whether Jeff Sessions met with Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak.

WaPo said today their 2017 story on this mtg may have lead DOJ to seize reporters' phone records
AND here's Flores in an email describing the Kislyak/Sessions meeting as debunked! So if not true how could it be a leak?
Sarah Flores responded to at least two dozen reporters by saying the Sessions/Kislyak meeting during 2016 campaign never happened and I have every single email. So if this is one of the stories that served as the basis for seizing WaPo phone records does it mean it's true?
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3 May
NEW: DOJ just turned over to @BuzzFeedNews and I and CNN nearly 300 pages of the supplemental material attached to the FBI 302s from the Mueller probe. @a_cormier_ and I are going through the records now but here's a sample
NEW/DOCUMENTS: Sorry for the delay! Here's our story on these amazing emails and text messages sent and received by Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and more that were scooped up as part of Mueller's investigation
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Roger Stone email to Steve Bannon August 28, 2016 just released

“Trump can still win — but time is running out. Early voting begins in six weeks. I do know how to win this but it ain’t pretty. 
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