The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges on Friday against a contractor with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) who is accused of stealing the tax returns of former President Donald Trump and distributing the material to the media.
Federal law enforcement officials announced the charges against 38-year-old Charles Edward Littlejohn, who was a contractor with the IRS from 2018 to 2020. The company that Littlejohn was working for was not identified and it was not clear “why a contractor had access to sensitive taxpayer information that is supposed to be protected by numerous legal and procedural safeguards,” The New York Times added.
“While Defendant was working on an IRS contract, he stole tax returns and return information associated with Public Official A and thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, including returns and return information dating back more than 15 years,” court documents say. “He thereafter disclosed the tax information associated with Public Official A to News Organization 1 and the other tax information to News Organization 2. Both news organizations published numerous articles describing the tax information they obtained from the Defendant.”
While the identity of Public Official A is not mentioned in the court documents, numerous publications reported that Trump is the figure in question.
It won’t go any further than “faces criminal charges”.
I seem to recall that it was a “Conspiracy Theory” to claim that the IRS would dish out Trump’s tax returns.
As Elon Musk said, we are running out of conspiracy theories that didn’t come true.
He wasn’t an IRS employee, he was a contractor. In other words, a handy fall guy.
And the punishment is that every thing he used to commit the crime gets forfeited? And what would that be?
And the recipients of the information don’t face anything? Correct me if I am wrong, but don’t leftists call for blood from any conservative media that publishes anything untoward against a Democrat when it comes from a source they find questionable?
The two-tiered justice system is alive and well.
He will have “the book thrown at him”; like “Bush ?Republican” Ray Epps.
For those not into Bush Clan’s men Epps got a mild slap on the wrist!
Sacrificial lamb.
The people who ordered it, distributed it, and profited by it will never even be named.
And there will be a prison ‘suicide’ to make aure it stays that way.
This is being done to triangulate and threaten the current IRS whistle blowers. It’s a message that the federales are just now getting around to charge this dude.
Difference is Humper is a private citizen as the Cabbage Patch Lezbo likes to remind us.
Well, IOTWReport reader A would like a minute with DOJ attorney A to discuss how this case is going to be handled and how contractor A should be bent over a table and forced to disclose who gave him the credentials to get the information.
And IOTWReport reader A would then request a minute with the people exposed. Believe me, SA A doesn’t need much time to render judgement.
it’s really shit
Why?
Is this to give the propaganda machine a talking point?
So they can sit there and say there is no 2 tiered justice system.
Because, look! This guy is being prosecuted and he violated Trump’s legal rights.
I know, cynical.
I’m with beachmom.
“…don’t leftists call for blood from any conservative media that publishes anything untoward against a Democrat when it comes from a source they find questionable?”
We, they’re not really conservative anymore, but Fox News is happily doing penance for blaspheming Saint Dominion of Algorithmia.
Watch the “Justice” department throw the book at him, and then bungle (on purpose) the persecution so he walks. Either that or the perp claims “whistleblower status”, and the case gets dismissed.
Prosecution not persecution ^^*
Make a deal with the demoncrats with fore knowledge that they do not like you, will used you until you are finished being a tool, then kick you to the curb, if you are lucky.
We need to see: the purges have begun. The left follows script and the script is honed from ancient times of treachery.
A slap om the wrist is all they will get…
Disgusting evil