IRS Leaker Who Outed Michael Cohen’s Banking Secrets Is Spared Jail Time
- Agency analyst shared confidential Treasury database records
- Judge rejects Michael Cohen’s $14 million restitution request
Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, exits his home in New York on May 6, 2019.
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A former Internal Revenue Service analyst persuaded a judge not to send him to prison for leaking confidential government records on suspicious banking activity by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.
John C. Fry, who worked in the IRS’s law enforcement arm in San Francisco, pleaded guilty to illegally disclosing records from a Treasury Department database showing that a shell company linked to Cohen had received millions of dollars from multinational companies that were trying to get access to the Trump White House, as well as $500,000 from a company tied to a Russian oligarch.