See http://leagle.com/xmlResult.aspx?xmldoc=In%20FDCO%2020110308968.xml&docbase=CSLWAR3-2007-CURR

If you see a blank screen, scroll down to see the case. If you will note in the Section entitled "The DFI Investigation", they not only disclosed that a SAR was filed, but they quoted part of it and gave the name of the person that prepared it.

This scares me insanely. I can't believe they'd actually use the name of the preparer.

This is funny!

If you think you are scared now wait till your State Grand Jury testimony is used in the charging documents (by the charging agency) and the local newspaper gets it and puts everything but your home address and phone number in the article on the front page.

I was a little skeered (not for me, but my kids(was a ML/possible Human Trafficking case).

I was so happy to read in the newspaper the day after a bank robbey that me (name and adress) could positivly identify the bank robber that to this day has not been caught.

March 27, 2011

Re: U.S. vs. Coffman, 3.07.11

Dear Judge Caldwell,

In the decision referenced above you inserted a direct quote from a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) filed by a Kentucky bank. You identified the bank. You gratuitously identified the bank employee who signed it.

The USA PATIROT ACT made the unauthorized disclosure of SARs by government employees a violation of federal law. Both civil and criminal penalties may be imposed for SAR disclosure violations. Violations may be enforced through civil penalties of up to $100,000 for each violation and criminal penalties of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment not to exceed five years.

Enclosed are 1) an additional copy of this letter and 2) two copies of FIN-2010-A014. The FinCEN pronouncement explains recent revisions of the regulation detailing the prohibition on SAR disclosures. I respectfully ask that you forward the extra copy of this letter and the FinCEN pronouncement to the prosecutor who apparently entered the SAR or evidence that the SAR existed into the public record.

If there were no legal prohibition against disclosing Suspicious Activity Reports, it could be said that the both of you merely acted irresponsibly…

Sincerely,


Kenneth W. Golliher

You go, Ken! I am sick of everyone but the banks getting away with SAR violations. We're darned if we don't file and may be dead if we do.

Did you actually send the letter; or is this what you would like to send?

Wow...just wow!

That's the letter I mailed Sunday afternoon. The letter I wanted to send was rude.

These illegal disclosures are not going to stop because FinCEN issues guidance.

Thanks from all of us. Let us know if you get a reply