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Reports that banks are mandated to file when they see suspicious activity are held. and this law enforcement official searching for records related to michael cohen, which as fairly routine thing a law enforcement official might do in response to seeing news about cohen, to for instance see if there was anything happening related to this case in their jurisdiction. what this official found was that there was a fairly striking suspicious activity report, which has been public for the past week, a...

Least as far as we can tell unprecedented, is is it possible? is there a technical, logistical means by which a sar can be disappeared or removed from the database? >> so i want to point out a couple of caveats that are important for people as they digest this news. one is that we are not reporting that there is foul play here. indeed, amongst those experts, some of the first and most plausible speculation we received was maybe special counsel mueller or the southern district of new york or any ...

Happens, and prosecutors we talked to and law enforcement personnel we talked to said they didnt know of any set procedure by which you could achieve such a thing. >> so theoretically it could be the prosecutors of the southern district of new york. it could be the special counsels office saying we know this suspicious activity report exists. we dont want it on the database because that is so 60 we cant have tens of thousands of law enforcement personnel having access to this information. theore...

But this official has decided to make this information public because of this -- quote, "the official had grown alarmed after being unable to find two important reports on cohens financial activity in a government database." some financial records related to michael cohen missing from the database. heres whats going on here. banks have to file something called a suspicious activity report, s-a-r, sar, if they suspect something hinky is going on in somebodys bank account, something that looks lik...

Of concern about other similar reports that are gone? >> yes. and we can absolutely report that those other two that you referenced that are now unaccounted for exist. they are internally referenced in the third suspicious activity report. >> okay. >> so that is not in dispute. what is in dispute is how and why. >> lets slow it down. so the one that came out last week, the documents we saw last week were based on a suspicious activity report. that report -- and we havent seen the original of tha...

Reporting like ronans and some of the other reporting where people are trying to figure out how this banking information came into the public domain, we know from the reporting the way that data base of those reports works is that you can tell who looks at what. theres a record when anybody looks at those things, let alone accesses them in the kind of way that presumably would have been necessary to give them to reporters and give them to michael avenatti last week for dissemination to the publi...

Released last week. which individuals or corporations were involved remains a mystery. but according to the official who leaked the report, the sars were absent from the database maintained by the treasury department." this official, who has spent a career in law enforcement tells farrow, quote, "i have never seen something pulled off the system. the system is a safeguard for the bank. its a stockpile of information. when something isnt there that should be, i immediately became concerned. thats...

Network. "that database can be searched by tens of thousands of law enforcement and other government personnel." that document about michael cohen that was released last week according to ronan farrows new reporting was based on one sar, one of the suspicious activity reports that was filed at the first republic bank, which is the bank where michael cohens little shell company, essential consultants, had its bank account. that one suspicious act report included transactions between september 201...

Even based on seeing in the news that michael cohen is being investigated for various things that. they might want to check if its in their jurisdiction or not or if someone else is handling it. that part of it is routine. >> we contacted about a dozen sources and experts that we know in this field as soon as your report came out, trying to figure out the importance of what you had brought to the publics attention tonight. and what we asked people specifically was do you know of any previous exa...

Inmate. >> and all excited about something. >> authorities in tennessee, the prisoner told rick, had just arrested someone for a home invasion there. >> he told me, they identified the killer. >> that mans name was bruce hill. when authorities ran his information through the data base, they had a match for the blood found at the crime scene. a jury convicted hill of the murders of big charlie and diane. his motive for the crime was never firmly established. >> who is bruce hill? do you know that...