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IRS Contractor Charged With Leaking Trump Tax Returns To News Outlets

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IRS Contractor Charged With Leaking Trump Tax Returns To News Outlets

Charles Edward Littlejohn is accused of stealing the tax return information and giving it to two different news outlets between 2018 and 2020

U.S. Department of Justice Press Release, IRS Consultant Charged with Disclosing Tax Return Information to News Organizations(indictment):

DOJ Logo (2022)An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) consultant was charged today with disclosing tax return information without authorization.

According to court documents, Charles Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., while working at the IRS as a government contractor, stole tax return information associated with a high-ranking government official (Public Official A) and disclosed it to a news organization (News Organization 1). Littlejohn also stole tax return information for thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals, and disclosed this tax return information to another news organization (News Organization 2).

Littlejohn is charged with one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Trevor Nelson of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) made the announcement.

New York Times, I.R.S. Contractor Charged With Leaking Tax Returns:

A contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax return information from a senior government official and wealthy taxpayers to two news organizations, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court in Washington on Friday. ...

The indictment did not name the official, the other taxpayers or the news organizations. The public official is former President Donald J. Trump, and the two outlets identified in the indictment as “News Organization 1” and “News Organization 2” are The New York Times and ProPublica, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Wall Street Journal, IRS Contractor Is Charged in Leak of Trump Tax Returns, Thousands of Wealthy Americans’ Records:

The timeline outlined in the case matches the June 2021 publication by ProPublica of the tax records of wealthy Americans and the publication in September 2020 of information from Trump’s 2016 and 2017 tax records by the New York Times. The charge marks the first sign of progress in a two-year-long investigation that has proceeded quietly, and it links those two disclosures for the first time.

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