Bloomberg Law
May 18, 2018, 11:09 AM UTC

Trump Lawyer Bank Leaker ‘Terrified,’ Lawyers Say He Should Be

Jordan S. Rubin
Jordan S. Rubin
Reporter

A law enforcement official who reportedly leaked a secret bank filing about President Donald Trump’s lawyer could face a rare prosecution, white collar defense attorneys and former prosecutors told Bloomberg Law.

The rogue official supposedly spilled the Suspicious Activity Report out of concern that additional SARs related to Michael Cohen vanished from a government database, according to a May 16 New Yorker article.

The leaker told the New Yorker: “To say that I am terrified right now would be an understatement.”

‘Should be Terrified’

The official “should be terrified,” veteran white collar defense attorney and former prosecutor Michael F. ...

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