Charles Littlejohn: Man who stole and leaked Trump tax records sentenced to 5 years in prison | CNN Politics
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The man who stole and leaked former President Donald Trump and thousands of other’s tax records has been sentenced to five years in prison.

The man who stole and leaked former President Donald Trump and thousands of other’s tax records has been sentenced to five years in prison.

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.

Judge Ana Reyes highlighted the gravity of the crime, saying multiple times that it amounted to an attack against the US and its legal foundation.

  • aulin@lemmy.world
    641·
    10 months ago

    Coming from. Sweden where all tax records are public, it seems insane to get 5 years for revealing taxes.

    • Michal@programming.dev
      32·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, and wasn’t Trump supposed to show his tax returns the moment he became president and promised he’d do it?

        • MutilationWave@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 months ago

          The last seven years have shown that we can no longer rely on norms or moral codes or anything like that. It should all be codified in law.

      • mob@lemmy.world
        4·
        10 months ago

        It wasnt only Trumps 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.