"Not until an effort by the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press and BuzzFeed News to press for data in federal court in the Southern District of New York in 2020 did the judge agree last month to unseal records of the transfer summaries" post-gazette.com/news/crime-cou…
A huge thank you to @katie_rcfp@Jen_A_Nelson & @rcfp for their painstaking legal work over the past 2 years on behalf of @BuzzFeedNews that led to the unsealing of these explosive court documents. This was part of our #FinCENFiles reporting
And, as always, thank you to @3_Whistleblower whose disclosures about these suspicious financial transactions paved the way to the groundbreaking reporting that continues to this day. She's paid a heavy price. Please support her and her family. gofundme.com/f/treasury-whi…
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🧵I'd like to separate the content revealed in this disclosure and explain why this news from the Mueller is important because I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding about the work I do on the #FOIA front
With @mvtopic, we challenged a slew of redactions in the Mueller report starting in 2019 ago and a federal judge twice ruled that DOJ had violated the FOIA by improperly invoking an exemption and ordered the material released
We also challenged DOJ's use of privacy exemptions that protected the identities of some people Mueller didn't charge, arguing that their privacy rights were diminished b/c of prior govt disclosures. The district judge ruled in favor of the govt & we appealed to the DC Circuit
🚨BREAKING: @BuzzFeedNews & I just got more passages unredacted from Mueller report
It reveals for 1st time that Mueller declined to charge Donald Trump Jr with a computer crime for accessing a website using a PW he got from Wikileaks & Stone for hacking buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
These new unredacted passages follows our lengthy legal battle against the Justice Department and our partial victory at the DC Circuit to unmask the identities of some people Mueller declined to charge.
Thank you to @mvtopic & his team for fighting this historic battle.
🚨Mueller's office also considered charging JD Gordon, the Trump campaign's director of national security
BREAKING: Treasury Dept whistleblower Natalie May Edwards, our source whose brave disclosures exposed financial corruption on a global scale & formed the basis of our award-winning #FinCENFiles investigation, has just been released from federal prison buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier…
May Edwards just told @a_cormier_, minutes after she was released from prison: “This chapter is officially closed. I will not be silenced anymore. My story will be told.” buzzfeed.com/anthonycormier…
May (@3_Whistleblower)
served nearly five of her 6 month sentence.
Her sentence was unjust and unfair. Her disclosures have sparked AML reforms in the US and around the world.
I spoke with her a little while ago. I'm so relieved she's been released and is now with her family.
NEW: @BuzzFeedNews & I sued the govt under #FOIA for docs about it's sale of Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. We obtained amazing new pics of it, bill of sale, purchase agreement & more. But govt claims sale price of album is a trade secret! buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Thanks to our #FOIA atty @jloevy for working to get these Wu-Tang docs released on our behalf!
According to a copy of the five-page purchase agreement, the album was sealed with “tamper-proof evidence tape” and delivered to the new owners “in that state.”
This year, the US government continued to try and stonewall my attempts to pry loose documents via #FOIA. So @BuzzFeedNews & I filed dozens of public records lawsuits against recalcitrant agencies. We prevailed and we broke news.
Here's some of my greatest hits.
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January: These Emails Reveal The Drama Behind The GSA’s Decision Not To Certify Biden’s Win
The release of these JFK assassination records is in response to a memo Biden issued in Oct, which also allowed agencies to postpone the release of other docs "to protect against identifiable harm to the military defense, intelligence operations," etc