Surely, the WH isn't asking the feds to tip the scale here.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...hael-cohen-s-financial-records-stormy-n974201
IRS agent admits giving Michael Cohen's financial records to Stormy Daniels' lawyer
The federal complaint says John C. Fry admitted providing the information to Michael Avenatti when he was confronted by federal agents.
Federal prosecutors say an IRS investigator in California has admitted leaking confidential details of
financial transactions by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen to Michael Avenatti, lawyer for Stormy Daniels.
John C. Fry has been charged in federal court with searching for and disseminating Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), reports filed by banks when they note potentially suspicious transactions.
Federal officials say they found telephone records that indicate Fry placed a phone call from his personal cell phone to that of Stormy Daniels’ attorney
Michael Avenatti the day before Avenatti released details of Cohen's financial transactions, and the day after.
https://sfist.com/2019/02/22/sf-based-irs-agent-stormy-daniels/
SF-Based IRS Agent Charged With Illegally Leaking Documents Linked To Trump's Stormy Daniels Payout
An agent with the Internal Revenue Service based in San Francisco has been charged with the unlawful disclosure of transaction reports connected with Trump fixer Michael Cohen.
As the
East Bay Times reports, 54-year-old investigative analyst John C. Fry allegedly "downloaded five reports pertaining to a corporation Cohen set up that drew the attention of IRS investigators in May 2018."
According to a just-unsealed
criminal complaint, federal prosecutors say that Fry "conducted numerous searches related to the taxpayer," who was Cohen, and proceeded to share what he found with a Los Angeles attorney (Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti) and a New York reporter (Rowan Farrow from The New Yorker).