{"id":2443261,"date":"2025-06-05T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-wants-documents-on-trump-tax-leaker\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:38:38","slug":"jim-jordan-wants-documents-on-trump-tax-leaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jim-jordan-wants-documents-on-trump-tax-leaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Jordan Wants Documents On Trump Tax Leaker"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fjim-jordan-wants-documents-on-trump-tax-leaker%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=2443261&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>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, has written to Attorney General Pam Bondi seeking more details regarding charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor who leaked President Trump&#8217;s tax returns to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-cuomo-threatens-n-y-lawmaker-over-nursing-home-criticism\/\" title=\"Gov. Cuomo threatens N.Y. lawmaker over nursing home criticism\">multiple news outlets<\/a>. Jordan&#8217;s letter claims that Littlejohn&#8217;s leaks were more extensive than previously reported by the Biden-Harris Administration, with estimates suggesting over 405,000 affected individuals and businesses. Littlejohn had been sentenced to five years in prison for his actions, which involved breaching IRS security measures to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >access confidential taxpayer information<\/a>, including that of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-owns-america-shortcomings-on-foreign-ownership-data-leave-gaps-in-private-and-government-figures\/\" title=\"Who really owns America? The answer is not so clear-cut. Despite private and government data, there are still gaps in foreign ownership information. These &quot;shortcomings&quot; leave us wondering who truly holds the keys to the country.\">high-profile billionaires<\/a>. Critics, including house Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, have condemned the leniency of Littlejohn&#8217;s punishment, framing it as inadequate given the scale of the breaches. In his letter,Jordan has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-archives-skips-deadline-to-disclose-biden-classified-docs\/\" title=\"National Archives Skips Deadline to Disclose Biden Classified Docs\">requested documents related<\/a> to Littlejohn&#8217;s plea deal and the Justice Department&#8217;s investigations into his actions,emphasizing the need for clarity and accountability. Littlejohn has opted to invoke his Fifth amendment rights in response to inquiries from the house Judiciary Committee and is currently appealing his sentence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2025-06-03-jdj-to-doj-re-littlejohn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday requesting further documents about Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor who leaked President Trump&rsquo;s tax returns to the New York Times in 2019 and ProPublica in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Due to the Trump Administration&rsquo;s commitment to transparency and accountability, the Committee has learned that the scope of Mr. Littlejohn&rsquo;s leak was much broader than the Biden-Harris Administration had led the public to believe,&rdquo; reads the <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2025-06-03-jdj-to-doj-re-littlejohn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During Littlejohn&rsquo;s sentencing in 2023, DOJ prosecutors called the scale of his leaks &ldquo;unparalleled in the IRS&rsquo;s history,&rdquo; yet he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/criminal\/criminal-vns\/case\/united-states-v-charles-littlejohn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sentenced<\/a> to only five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $5,000 fine after pleading guilty to a single felony charge. At the time, the DOJ claimed that Littlejohn had leaked the tax information of about 18,000 individuals and 73,000 businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/26\/trump-tax-leaker-gets-the-hunter-biden-treatment-with-sweetheart-deal-from-doj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argued<\/a> that he should have been charged with one individual count per taxpayer, or at least once for each of his two thefts. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/01\/26\/trump-tax-leaker-gets-the-hunter-biden-treatment-with-sweetheart-deal-from-doj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> the negligible sentence &ldquo;a slap on the wrist.&rdquo; When the Judiciary Committee asked the Biden-Harris DOJ for documents about the case, they refused to comply and defended Littlejohn&rsquo;s sentence.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump was re-elected, the IRS informed the Judiciary Committee that the scale of Littlejohn&rsquo;s leaks had been even larger &mdash; more than 405,000 victims, 89% of them business entities, according to the letter.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Trump&rsquo;s tax returns, Littlejohn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaked<\/a> financial information for Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Michael Bloomberg, and other billionaires &mdash; all while evading IRS security measures designed to prevent employees from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-jeopardized-security-of-1m-americans-online-accounts-citing-equity\/\" title=\"Feds Jeopardized Security Of 1M Americans\u2019 Online Accounts, Citing \u2018Equity\u2019\">accessing sensitive data<\/a>. ProPublica used this data to write a series of articles arguing in favor of taxing the rich.<\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, Littlejohn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/irs-leaker-sought-consultant-role-express-purpose-releasing-trumps-tax-returns-doj-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sought<\/a> his job as an IRS consultant with the intent of leaking Trump&rsquo;s tax returns. He <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/ItQSG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">considered<\/a> Trump to be a threat to democracy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While it is now clear that Mr. Littlejohn&rsquo;s conduct violated the privacy of hundreds of thousands of American taxpayers, it remains unclear why the Biden-Harris Justice Department chose to allow him to plead guilty to only a single felony count,&rdquo; reads Jordan&rsquo;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/2025-06-03-jdj-to-doj-re-littlejohn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Littlejohn recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-tax-leaker-takes-fifth-house-inquiry-plea-deal?msockid=1ea7efb56cfc61801275fb3c6d12609d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declined<\/a> to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, appealing to his Fifth Amendment Right against self-incrimination. He is currently appealing his sentence.<\/p>\n<p>To further the House Judiciary Committee&rsquo;s investigation, Jordan requested that all documents and communications relating to Littlejohn&rsquo;s plea agreement and the DOJ&rsquo;s investigation of his leaks be released before June 17.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jacqueline Annis-Levings is a correspondent for the Federalist. She is a rising junior at Patrick Henry College, where she is majoring in English.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Jordan requests documents on IRS contractor Littlejohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3848,"featured_media":2443262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/U.S._Department_of_Justice_DOJ_53840386529-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[5407,23098,5894,56590,3634],"class_list":["post-2443261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-documents","tag-jim-jordan","tag-politics","tag-tax-leaker","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/U.S._Department_of_Justice_DOJ_53840386529-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443265,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443261\/revisions\/2443265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2443262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}