The Treasury Department inspector general is mulling its next steps to investigate the disappearance of bank records belonging to Michael Cohen, The Hill is reporting.
Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden sent a letter to Treasury watchdog Eric Thorson, requesting he investigate the "reported alterations" made to the suspicious activity report (SAR) regarding bank accounts belonging to Cohen's firm, Essential Consulting.
In the letter, Wyden cites The New Yorker report from Wednesday detailing the motivation of the official who leaked Cohen's records - missing files.
"We have received Senator Wyden's request that we look into how FinCEN manages the SAR database, and are developing our plan to carry out the request," Rich Delmar, counsel to the Treasury inspector general, told The Hill.
An outside watchdog, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), has also requested the IG investigate the "extremely troubling" allegations that were reported in the New Yorker piece, The Hill reports.
"Interference with law enforcement processes for improper purposes could pose a threat to the rule of law, and any such risk to the ability of law enforcement agencies to protect the public must be addressed swiftly and strongly," CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said.
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