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20 Sep, 5 tweets, 3 min read
1 year ago today, my colleagues & I published the 1st stories from the massive, global reporting project known as #FinCENFiles. Our reporting made an enormous impact around the world & helped push through the most substantial revision to AML laws in the US since the Patriot Act
NEW: A Year After The #FinCENFiles, The Biggest Change Is Still A Work In Progress

A year after the publication of a groundbreaking global investigation, the details of how to stop money laundering are still coming into focus.
buzzfeednews.com/article/scottp… @scottpham
As reforms sparked by #FinCENFiles roll out a year on, key source is behind bars icij.org/investigations… via @ICIJorg
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Books to send to May Edwards
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10 Sep
Capitol Police green lit a permit to a non existent group called One Nation Under God (linked to Stop the Steal & Ali Alexander) to protest on Capitol grounds Jan 6. One Nation Under God said Reps Brooks & Biggs were confirmed speakers. Here are others

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Clay Mills, a spokesperson for Brooks, told BuzzFeed News the lawmaker had no plans to speak at the One Nation Under God event at the Capitol and that he never heard of One Nation Under God. But Brooks did speak at Freedom Plaza less than 2 miles away

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The person listed as one of the organizers on the One Nation of God permit application to hold a protest at the Capitol is Nathan Martin, a city councilman in Shelby, Ohio.

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9 Sep
BIG NEWS: Capitol Police is not subject to #FOIA so in Feb @BuzzFeedNews & I w/our atty @_LightLaw leading the charge sued the police for docs about Jan 6 citing the common law right of access and WE WON!

This is a significant legal victory

buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Jeffrey Light: “To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time that a lawsuit brought under the common law right of access has been successful as applied to a congressional agency." ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️
Here, from the Jan 6 permits we successfully pried loose out of the Capitol Police
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9 Sep
SCOOP: @BuzzFeedNews & I obtained the six closely guarded protest permits Capitol Police approved for Jan 6, including one that was a proxy for Stop the Steal and linked to its organizer Ali Alexander.

Rare insight into the secretive police force's ops
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
On Dec 21, a group called One Nation Under God filed an application with the Capitol Police’s special events section to stage a protest over “election fraud in swing states” at the Senate East Front grassy area on Jan. 6 between 9:00 am & 6 pm

One problem: the group didn't exist
But on Jan 4, the Capitol Police chief & and its top intel officer personally approved that permit & six others for demonstrations to be held on Jan. 6, 2021, despite signs that five of them were a proxy for a group staging large, violent protests across the country.
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7 Sep
Congratulations to my #FinCENFiles at @BuzzFeedNews & @ICIJorg for being named finalists for the @LoebAwards!

This is really bittersweet as our source who made this series & its global impact possible, Natalie May Edwards, & just reported to prison Friday
If you'd like to support May and her family please donate to this fundraiser

gofundme.com/f/treasury-whi…
Natalie May Edwards: “I did this for the American people. My motive was accountability, and the American people had a right to know what was occurring within Treasury and that it was a national security issue and that American lives were in jeopardy.”
buzzfeednews.com/article/davidm…
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3 Sep
In a wide-ranging intv w/@davidmackau before she reported to prison, whistleblower Natalie May Edwards, the source behind our #FinCENFiles investigation & other stories, said she's "absolutely proud of what I did and I know American lives have been saved”
buzzfeednews.com/article/davidm…
Natalie May Edwards told @davidmackau: “I did this for the American people. My motive was accountability, and the American people had a right to know what was occurring within Treasury and that it was a national security issue and that American lives were in jeopardy.”
To support Natalie May Edwards and her family, please consider contributing to her fundraiser.

gofundme.com/f/treasury-whi…
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3 Sep
This morning, Natalie May Edwards, a Treasury Dept whistleblower & one of the bravest humans I know, reports to federal prison in W. Virginia to begin her 6 month sentence

May was the source behind our global #FinCENFiles investigation, which we published a year ago this month Image
May told the judge at her sentencing hearing in June she had taken an oath to protect the American people and “could not stand by aimlessly” when she saw corruption.

Her disclosures and her sacrifice helped change laws in the US and around the world. She is a hero.
Please show May and her family your support for the sacrifices she has made and consider donating to this fundraiser set up for her by @Winter
gofundme.com/f/treasury-whi…
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