I wonder what NY Times Editorial Board Member Binyamin Applebaum made last year? We don’t know of course because his tax records are private. But it turns out Applebaum played a role in the decision by one IRS employee named Charles Littlejohn to gather and leak President Trump’s tax records to the NY Times. Littlejohn then decided he would help solve income inequality nationwide by leaking the tax information of all of America’s top earners. This week, in recompense for his freelance social justice activities, Littlejohn was given a five year prison sentence, which was the maximum.
Charles Littlejohn, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information in October and faced a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison. Investigators said he used his position as a contractor with the nation’s tax collector to illegally obtain and then…
