IRS Contractor Charged with Leaking Tax Returns
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Mr. Littlejohn sounds like a modern day Robin Hood, or at the very least one of his merry men.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/politics/charles-littlejohn-trump-taxes-leak/index.html
In October, Charles Littlejohn, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized disclosures of income tax returns. According to his plea agreement, he stole Trump’s tax returns along with the tax data of “thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people,” while working for a consulting firm with contracts with the Internal Revenue Service.
Littlejohn leaked the information to two news outlets and deleted the documents from his IRS-assigned laptop before returning it and covered the rest of his digital tracks by deleting places where he initially stored the information.
A judge grilled a Department of Justice prosecutor on Monday over why the government charged Charles Littlejohn with just one count of unauthorized disclosure of taxes after Littlejohn leaked the private information of more than a thousand taxpayers to media in 2020.
“The fact that he is facing one felony count, I have no words for,” Judge Ana Reyes said during Littlejohn’s sentencing hearing.
Littlejohn, a former Internal Revenue Service contractor, is set to be sentenced Monday for the single charge, and the DOJ has asked Reyes to give him five years in prison, which is the maximum sentence for it.
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Clemency Request 'Pending' for Leaker of Trump's and Others' Taxes
The Biden administration is formally considering commuting the sentence of the convicted felon who stole and leaked incoming President Trump's tax records along with those of thousands of other taxpayers, in the biggest tax data heist in U.S. history.
A search of the Justice Department's pardon database reveals Charles Edward Littlejohn -- who just began his five-year sentence in May -- has been assigned a clemency case number. It says a petition for "commutation of sentence" was recently sought and is "pending."
A number of liberal watchdog groups, including Revolving Door Project and Patriotic Millionaires, have been lobbying President Biden to free Littlejohn from prison because they believe his leaks provided a "public service." They argue he is a "selfless defender of tax fairness" for exposing how Trump and other wealthy Americans, including billionaires Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, and Jeff Bezos, take advantage of tax breaks to reduce their tax bills. Littlejohn leaked the sensitive IRS data to the New York Times and the liberal news site ProPublica, which published them in a series of articles before and after the 2020 election.
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No. And in fact, they should proceed with the other 999 counts, now.
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@jon-nyc said in IRS Contractor Charged with Leaking Tax Returns:
I’ll bet that story is false. Any federal prisoner can file a petition for clemency.
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/free-charles-littlejohn/
