Posted on 11/10/2023 3:15:49 AM PST by Libloather
EXCLUSIVE: The House Ways and Means Committee is demanding answers from the Justice Department on why it charged a former IRS consultant with one count of unauthorized disclosure of taxpayer information, including information belonging to former President Trump and thousands of wealthy Americans, despite the individual admitting to two separate disclosures.
The former IRS official, Charles Littlejohn, pleaded guilty last month to one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax return information. The Justice Department accused him of leaking tax information belonging to former President Trump and "thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals" to news outlets between 2018 and 2020.
The Justice Department said Littlejohn accessed tax returns on an IRS database and saved the tax returns on personal storage devices, including an iPod.
The Justice Department did not specify the two news organizations that Littlejohn leaked the documents to, but Fox News was told that the two organizations were the New York Times and ProPublica, a New York City-based nonprofit investigative journalism group.
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"Mr. Littlejohn pled guilty to a single charge of unauthorized disclosure of tax information despite explicitly detailing his two separate and distinct unauthorized disclosures," Smith wrote, adding that the disclosures both involved "two sets of information that were disclosed at two different times to two distinct organizations covering thousands of taxpayers."
"We have not been able to determine how DOJ could possibly charge Mr. Littlejohn with only one count of unauthorized disclosure," Smith wrote.
Smith called Littlejohn’s breach "the largest breach of confidential tax information in American history," and slammed the Justice Department for only charging him with one count, which carries a maximum sentence of five years and a fine of $5,000.
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https://www.realclearwire.com/articles/2023/10/18/leaker_of_trump_taxes_worked_for_biden_beltway_donor_that_just_won_a_big_new_irs_contract_986770.html
C’mon Brooke. ProPubica is a far left “news” organization. Do better.
Trump got charged per document.
Each data point on the return is a disclosure.
He should get a charge for each line number.
What’s to explain?
We’re no longer a republic.
Until that changes, the law is whatever Deep State says it is.
He should be charged with thousands of counts.
He will end up paying a fine, do no jail time, and he will be rewarded many times over for his service to the regime.
Willing to wager anyone on this thread that Littlejohn will do prison time.
The Department of Justice has lost any serious respect. It is completely complicit in leftist corruption.
Trump got charged per document.
Not really.
You mean like not charged with 91 counts and facing a potential maximum sentence of 717.5 years in prison...... 🧐
It’s a big club, but we aren’t in it.
Correct, time to neuter fedzilla, repeal the 17th Amendment.
“The Justice Department said Littlejohn accessed tax returns on an IRS database and saved the tax returns on personal storage devices, including an iPod.
The Justice Department did not specify the two news organizations that Littlejohn leaked the documents to, but Fox News was told that the two organizations were the New York Times and ProPublica, a New York City-based nonprofit investigative journalism group.”
Why haven’t the NYT and “Pro Publica” been charged with receiving stolen property? Oh “Tish?” LOL.
Time to go back to dumb voting machines.
Voter fraud has been part of the NH landscape since the 1950s... both the NH GOP and the New Hampshire Democrat Party ensure there’s a functional retard as the Secretary of State who never finds any voter fraud ever.
It’s a foundational reason why they always fight for New Hampshire to be first in the nation, that way they can label the presidential candidate as a winner or loser, under the old Dynamic with the pissed stream media controlling the narrative.
Littlejohn was doing obama’s work for him. He will not go to prison for his crime.
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