A senior Treasury Department official pleaded guilty to leaking confidential financial reports after being charged with disclosing information related to Russia and President Trump’s associates
Her attorney, Marc Agnifilo, said she had the best of intentions in disclosing the information to BuzzFeed. Other information related to Manafort’s former associate Rick Gates, the Russian Embassy and Maria Butina, the Russian gun rights activist who admitted being an agent for the Kremlin and received an 18-months prison sentence.
Edwards, 41, who lives in Virginia, could face a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison. She agreed in a plea deal not to challenge a sentence of zero to six months. Her attorney said she would argue for no prison time.Edwards declined to say she knew what she did was wrong, and suggested she believed she was acting as a whistleblower. Her statements briefly delayed the plea hearing, until she ultimately said she knew she was not legally allowed to release the information.
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