{"id":2162339,"date":"2024-01-29T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charles-littlejohn-man-who-leaked-trumps-tax-records-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:57:45","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T22:57:45","slug":"charles-littlejohn-man-who-leaked-trumps-tax-records-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charles-littlejohn-man-who-leaked-trumps-tax-records-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Littlejohn, leaker of Trump&#8217;s tax records, gets 5-year prison term"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcharles-littlejohn-man-who-leaked-trumps-tax-records-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2162339&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">U.S. President Donald\u200c Trump speaks at a roundtable on the \u2063economy and tax reform at \u200bNuss Trucking and Equipment on \u2062April 15, 2019 in Burnsville, Minnesota. At \u200bthe special Tax Day roundtable \u2063Trump gave \u2063a defense \u200cof\u200d his 2017\u2062 tax cuts. \u2062(Photo by \u2064Adam Bettcher\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/elizabeth-volberding\">Elizabeth Volberding<br \/><\/a>2:40 PM \u200d\u2013 Monday, January 29, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Charles Littlejohn, \u200cthe man who\u2062 stole former President Donald \u2064Trump\u2019s tax records and later released\u200c them to \u2063a number of\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-shouldnt-let-the-blues-clues-episode-be-just-another-passing-cultural-outrage\/\" title=\"We Shouldn\u2019t Let the Blue\u2019s Clues Episode Be Just Another Passing Cultural Outrage\">left-wing news outlets<\/a>, \u2062has been sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Littlejohn, a former tax employee who\u2064 unlawfully \u200cleaked\u2064 Trump\u2019s \u200cpersonal tax records to media platforms, was sentenced\u200c to five years in prison. In addition, he must spend an extra three years under \u2063supervised release\u2062 and pay a $5,000 fine for his wrongdoings.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2008 and 2013, Littlejohn worked for Booz Allen, a consulting business that primarily handled\u2063 IRS contracts\u200d for public and \u2062private customers. While\u200d there, \u200che had\u2064 access to \u201cvast amounts of unmasked\u2064 taxpayer\u2064 data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While employed as a contractor, \u200dLittlejohn stole tax information\u200c from Trump, along with thousands of other\u2064 affluent and\u2063 well-known public figures. <\/p>\n<p>The private tax returns of billionaires such \u200bas\u2062 Elon \u2062Musk, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Peter \u2063Thiel,\u2063 and others were made public by\u00a0the\u200c left-leaning outlet <em>ProPublica <\/em>in June 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Littlejohn, 38, pleaded guilty\u200d in October to one count \u200bof illegal disclosures of income tax \u2062records. <\/p>\n<p>The former tax worker\u2063 disclosed the\u200b private information to \u200dat \u2062least \u200ctwo\u200b media outlets and removed \u200cthe records from his IRS-assigned computer before \u200breturning \u200cit. Later, he erased the locations where \u200che \u2062had originally saved the data, covering\u2062 the remainder of \u2063his digital footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Littlejohn\u2019s sentencing on Monday, \u2063federal \u2064District Judge Ana Reyes described his offense as \u201can attack on our constitutional democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cHe targeted\u2063 the sitting president \u200cof the \u200cUnited\u2063 States of America, and\u2062 that \u2062is exceptional by any measure,\u201d said Reyes. \u201cIt cannot be\u2062 open season on our elected \u200dofficials.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reyes also\u200c repeatedly emphasized \u200bthe seriousness\u2064 of the offense, comparing it to an assault \u200con the United States and its legal system.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWhat you did in attacking the sitting president of the United States was an \u200cattack on our constitutional democracy,\u201d Reyes added. \u201cWe\u2019re \u200dtalking \u200dabout someone who \u2026 \u200bpulled off \u200bthe biggest\u200c heist in\u200c IRS history.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, \u200bReyes compared Littlejohn\u2019s wrongdoings to those of the January 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach, asserting that his actions were \u201calso a threat \u200dto our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cIt\u200b engenders the same fear\u200c that January 6<sup>th<\/sup> does,\u201d Reyes added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Littlejohn, according to the prosecution, took extreme\u2062 measures to obtain the\u200b tax \u2064records\u2062 covertly. He did so by downloading data to an Apple iPad, \u200duploading it to a private website that\u2063 he later\u2063 removed, and taking \u2064advantage of certain system flaws.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes also took issue with\u200d the Justice Department\u2019s choice to\u200c file a single count of\u200d charges against Littlejohn.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe fact that he did what he \u2063did\u2064 and he\u2019s facing one\u2062 felony count, I have no words\u2063 for,\u201d the judge said. Prosecutors\u200d argued that the one count covers \u200cthe multitude \u2063of Littlejohn\u2019s thefts and leaks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cA\u200c free press and public engagement \u2064with\u2064 the media are critical to any healthy democracy, but stealing and leaking private, personal\u2064 tax information strips individuals of the legal protection of their\u2062 most sensitive data,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.260322\/gov.uscourts.dcd.260322.23.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prosecutors wrote in a court filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Littlejohn acknowledged his crimes in a short statement to the court, claiming that he had\u200d been mindful of its possible\u200d consequences at the time, however,\u2062 he was motivated by \u200ba \u201cdesire for transparency.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI made my decision\u200d with \u200cfull knowledge that I\u2063 would likely \u200dend up\u2063 in a courtroom to answer for my serious crime,\u201d Littlejohn said in court on Monday. \u201cI used my \u2062skills\u2063 to systematically \u2062violate the privacy of \u2062thousands of\u2063 people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Littlejohn also \u200csaid, \u201cI acted out\u2064 of\u200b a sincere misguided belief,\u201d and \u2064that he was serving the nation and that people had a right to\u200b the tax information.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWe as\u2064 a country make the\u200d best\u2064 decisions when we are all properly informed,\u201d Littlejohn added.\u200b \u201cMy actions undermine the\u2063 fragile faith.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stay informed! \u200cReceive breaking news blasts \u2062directly to your inbox for free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\t\u2064\t\tShare this post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Biden Administration is pushing gun control measures onto parents \u2064all in the name of public safety. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>A Federal \u2064Jury orders Donald \u2062Trump to pay millions to writer\u2063 E. 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In addition to his prison term, \u2064he\u2064 will also \u2062serve\u2063 an extra three\u200b years under supervised release and pay a $5,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Littlejohn, who worked\u2063 as a\u200d tax\u200d employee for Booz Allen between \u20622008 and 2013, had\u200d access to a significant amount \u200cof taxpayer \u200bdata during his \u200btime there.\u2063 While employed as a contractor, he stole not only Trump&#8217;s tax information \u2064but also the private tax \u200dreturns\u2062 of \u2064other well-known public figures\u200d such\u200c as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Michael\u200d Bloomberg, Warren\u2064 Buffett, and Peter Thiel. These records\u200c were later made public \u2063by the left-leaning outlet ProPublica in June 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The former tax worker pleaded \u200dguilty in\u200b October to \u200cone count of illegal disclosures of income tax records. He admitted to leaking the private\u200d information\u2063 to at least \u200ctwo media outlets and removing\u200c the records \u2062from his IRS-assigned computer.\u200d Littlejohn also took measures to erase the locations \u2063where he had \u2064originally saved the\u2064 data, making it difficult to trace his actions.<\/p>\n<p>In\u2063 sentencing Littlejohn, Federal District Judge \u2064Ana Reyes\u200b described\u200c his\u2063 offense as an attack on \u200cthe constitutional democracy of the United States.\u200d She emphasized the seriousness of his actions and \u2064compared them\u2063 to an assault on the country and its legal \u200csystem. Reyes\u2064 also likened Littlejohn&#8217;s wrongdoings to the U.S.\u200b Capitol breach on \u2064January 6, 2021,\u2063 stating\u200c that both incidents posed a threat\u200b to\u200c democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence presented by the\u2062 prosecution showed that Littlejohn \u200cwent\u2062 to extreme lengths to obtain the\u200c tax\u2063 records covertly. He\u200b downloaded\u200c the data to an Apple iPad, uploaded it\u2063 to a\u2064 private website, and took\u2063 advantage of\u2064 certain system flaws. The \u2064prosecution argued \u2064that filing a single count \u200dof charges \u2063against Littlejohn was sufficient to\u200b cover the multitude of his thefts and \u200cleaks.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department&#8217;s decision to\u2063 file only one count of charges was criticized\u2062 by Judge \u200dReyes, who expressed disbelief at the\u200b leniency of the charge. Prosecutors defended their choice, stating that stealing\u200c and leaking private tax information undermines individuals&#8217; \u200clegal protection\u200b of their sensitive data.<\/p>\n<p>Littlejohn admitted \u200cto his \u2063crimes in a short statement to the court,\u200d claiming\u200c that he had \u2062been aware of the potential consequences. However, he justified his \u200dactions\u200b as motivated by a \u200ddesire for transparency and the\u2062 belief that the \u2063public had a right\u2064 to the tax information.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately,\u200c Littlejohn&#8217;s sentencing sends a strong message \u200bthat the unauthorized access and release of private\u200c and sensitive \u200binformation, \u200cespecially pertaining \u2062to public figures and elected officials, will be met with severe consequences. \u2063It serves \u2064as a \u200creminder that privacy and\u2063 the rule of law are vital for the\u2063 integrity and stability of a democratic \u2062society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump defends his 2017 tax cuts at a roundtable on the economy and tax reform in Burnsville, Minnesota. The event took place on April 15, 2019, at Nuss Trucking and Equipment. OAN&#8217;s Elizabeth Volberding reports at 2:40 PM on Monday, January 29. 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