An IRS consultant was charged Friday in connection with wrongfully disclosing tax return information, documents that were, according to a source familiar with the matter, leaked the tax returns of former President Donald Trump, SİA informs via NBC News.
Charles Littlejohn, of Washington, DC, was working at the IRS as a government contractor when he stole tax return information linked with a public official "and thousands of the nation's wealthiest people, including returns and return information dating back more than 15 years," prosecutors said in court documents.
A source confirmed to NBC News that Trump was the unnamed public official whose records had been leaked. CNN was the first to report that the charges pertained to the disclosure of Trump's taxes.
A Justice Department spokesperson and an attorney for Littlejohn declined to comment.
Littlejohn, 38, stole and provided the public official’s tax documents to an unnamed news organization, and the tax information concerning other wealthy individuals to another unidentified news organization between 2018 and 2020, prosecutors said.
In 2020, The New York Times published a bombshell report saying that it had obtained more than two decades of Trump’s tax information and that he had paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. ProPublica in 2021 published reporting on the taxes of wealthy people in 2021.
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