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IRS consultant charged in leak of tax returns for Trump, wealthy Americans

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Dissent

Devlin Barrett and Spencer S. Hsu report:

A Washington-based consultant for the Internal Revenue Service was charged Friday with stealing the tax returns of former president Donald Trump and thousands of wealthy Americans in 2019 and 2020 and providing them to two news organizations that reported how little the super-rich pay in federal income taxes, according to court filings and people familiar with the investigation.

Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, faces one federal felony count of unauthorized disclosure of tax information, an offense punishable by up to five years in prison, the Justice Department announced Friday.

Read more at The Washington Post.

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