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Serious Q - Do you have direct knowledge of how the FinCen database works? Seems like Ronan did his homework and due diligence on this story. 
Also, couldn't Mnuchin do Trump a solid and pull a report or two? [/quote]

Not PP, but the leaker is an idiot:

[quote][b]Five former government officials and experts on financial crime told The Washington Post that access to reports on the president’s former attorney could have been restricted over concern they were particularly vulnerable to leaking.[/b] An FBI raid last month of Cohen’s home, office and hotel room — part of an investigation into possible bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations — was widely publicized.

“I would be cautious about reaching a conclusion that something nefarious was going on,” said attorney Carlton Greene, a former FinCEN chief counsel.

[b]A government coverup of the Cohen reports “makes no sense,” said Aaron Wolfson, a lawyer who previously oversaw suspicious activity reporting for JPMorgan Chase. “I find that laughable.”
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Banks are required by law to keep copies of SARs for five years, the experts said, so removing them from the Treasury database would not wipe out a record of those reports.
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Experts also said the leaker’s concern that SARs could be permanently deleted suggested a lack of familiarity with financial crime prosecutions. If law enforcement working on the Cohen probe could not find an SAR in the database, officials could seek records from the bank or from their investigative files.[/b]
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/probe-of-leaked-banking-records-related-to-michael-cohen-expands-after-new-yorker-report/2018/05/17/943c133c-59e2-11e8-8b92-45fdd7aaef3c_story.html?utm_term=.abc2171f6db2[/quote]

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