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4 Oct, 7 tweets, 3 min read
On June 3, Biden signed EO vowing to make global financial systems more transparent. On that day, a judge sentenced my FinCENFiles source, Natalie Mayflower Edwards, to prison. She did more to bring transparency to the global financial system than almost anyone in recent memory
The petition asking Biden to pardon Natalie Mayflower Edwards is up to 7659 signatures. Add your name here

change.org/p/president-of…
If you'd like to support #FinCENfiles whistleblower Natalie May Edwards and her family please donate here

gofundme.com/f/treasury-whi…
Please consider picking up a book or two for #FinCENfiles whistleblower Natalie May Edwards from this Amazon wishlist. It will be sent directly to her at the federal prison West Virginia.

amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls…
WaPo on #FinCENfiles whistleblower Natalie May Edwards: "She is one of the most important whistleblowers of our era, and yet hardly anyone remembers her name."
washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/medi…
#FinCENfiles whistleblower Natalie May Edwards: “I’m absolutely proud of what I did and I know American lives have been saved.”
buzzfeednews.com/article/davidm…
It would have been nice if the reporter who asked Psaki the question that led her to respond by citing Biden's commitment to making global financial systems more transparent would have then followed up by pointing out these details about how Natalie May Edwards did just that

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NEW: DOJ just turned over some supplemental material from the FBI 302s related to the Mueller probe in response to my/@BuzzFeedNews & CNN's #FOIA lawsuit. This is the 18th installment in our 2 year effort to liberate all records from the probe.

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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
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A year after the publication of a groundbreaking global investigation, the details of how to stop money laundering are still coming into focus.
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As reforms sparked by #FinCENFiles roll out a year on, key source is behind bars icij.org/investigations… via @ICIJorg
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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

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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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