 In 2020, Natalie Edwards pled guilty to leaking FinCEN information to Leopold, including internal FinCEN emails, investigative memos and intelligence assessments.Leopold began his career in 1992, writing obituaries for "The Reporter Dispatch" newspaper in White Plains, New York.He became the crime and courts reporter for the "Whittier Daily News" in 1997 and then moved to the City News Service where he covered court trials.