“I made my decision with the full knowledge that I would likely end up in a courtroom,” former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn said.
Littlejohn didn’t just leak years of Donald Trump’s tax returns to The New York Times in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election. He also leaked the tax returns of thousands of other wealthy Americans, along with other private financial information about them, to another left-leaning “news” outlet, ProPublica.
Littlejohn’s crime has been referred to as the “greatest heist in IRS history.” After all, he stole and disclosed the tax returns of about 7,600 individuals and 600 entities.
But federal prosecutors alleged that Littlejohn stole and leaked tax information of about 18,000 individuals. The prosecutors said that “the tax returns are just the tip of the iceberg.”
The Justice Department alleges that…
