The leftist-media claim a 5-year sentence was harsh. However, in terms of the violations of privacy and law the sentence was a mere slap on the wrist.
Charles Littlejohn (38) previously pleaded guilty to stealing and leaking the tax returns of Donald Trump and approximately 2,000 other high-profile people. The tax returns were given to The New York Times and ProPublica, who published the contents of 152 individual tax returns.
Charles Littlejohn (right) and his attorney.
WASHINGTON – A former IRS consultant was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking former President Donald Trump’s tax returns as well as the filings of thousands of other wealthy people to the news media.
A district court judge on Monday agreed with the Justice Department that Charles Littlejohn, 38, deserved the maximum statutory sentence for what she called “egregious” crimes.
Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden nominee to the bench, focused on Littlejohn’s decision to release Trump’s filings, which Reyes called “an attack on our constitutional democracy.”
“When you target the sitting president of the United States, you’re targeting the office and when you’re targeting the office of the president of the United States, you’re targeting democracy — you’re targeting our constitutional system of government.”
Noting that Trump was under no legal obligation to release his filings and likening the case to the Jan. 6 attacks on the Capitol, Reyes said: “It cannot be open season on our elected officials — it just can’t.”
Littlejohn also separately gave tax data on thousands of wealthy people to ProPublica, which published a string of stories showing the strategies some use to reduce or erase their tax bills, including Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and George Soros.
ProPublica spokeswoman Alexis Stephens said: “Whistleblowers are often the lifeblood of investigative journalism” and “they deserve protection not prosecution.”
Altogether, at least 152 people had their private information published in the media. (read more)
He should just claim that Trump assaulted him sometime in the past (no exact year or details or proof needed) and he would be set for life upon release.
Especially in NYC where the Statute of Limitations has long passed decades prior but is re-upped for certain types, allowing them to sue as if it happened yesterday. 5 years is about 1/4 the rightful sentence.
Ah I see what you did there! Clever …….well played!
Or E Jean Carroll molested him while he was stealing tax returns.
HA!!!!
It will end up being 5 months of community service.
His “community service” will be c0-anchoring an MSLSD prime-time political news show with multi-millionaire grifters Hunter Biden and E. Jean Carroll.
He should be put in a jail cell with a J6er.
Awesome
not only a criminal, but an idiot, moron criminal.
If I recall, the tax leak showed President Trump had paid ENORMOUS amounts of tax on his holdings.
something to think about: do you think a judge would have furnished any justice at all if the tax leak showed something derogatory about President Trump. My hypoth is that the ONLY reason he got punished is because the leak had the OPPOSITE EFFECT and made all the democrats in congress looks like morons for fuming all those months about “orange man, the ONLY president to not provide his taxes !”
ha ha ha
God Bless America
I think he got punished because he also leaked the tax records of prominent Democrats in the donor class – Bezos, Soros, Musk …
Bust this guy to remind the rest who is untouchable.
Too bad he didn’t leak Hillary’s taxes. He would have had an ‘accident’ a long time ago.
Bingo
Yes. The Rachel Madcow episode on MSLSD was a classic when she looked so pleased with Herself that she finaly had Trumps tax returns in her possession….(.yeah, we’re gonna get your now, you orange haired criminal!). Then a day later she made a long night of saying the returns had nothing in them that was out of line. Oooops!
https://www.gq.com/story/rachel-maddow-trump-taxes
there you go…memory
Just another law or understanding that just gets blown out the window by the left. What happens to the entities that published them?
I guarantee you not one prog had any problem with his illegal actions. Why did those D senators bother suing for DT’s tax returns when all they had to do was put an ad out for IRS people to do it for them?
Half+ of this nation is utterly rotted.
Activist idiot.
Kind looks like he works for different three letter doesn’t it?
Any media outlet that took these tax returns knows it’s illegal for anyone to obtain them. They should be jailed as well. After all, if you purchase stolen property– and it’s reasonable to assume it’s stolen — then you go to jail for taking possession.
its an interesting point…and contentious
think about assange
rosen
Look what they have done to Assange for publishing war crimes.
Need I say it …If he had ONLY leaked PDJT’s Tax returns he would have gotten the Clinesmith treatment – but he was enjoying the rush too much and so he gets the hammer …
Don’t get Pickled Paulie Pelosi excited.
Giving him the Boasberg Treatment.. PROBATION was probably a bridge too far for even them!
I read an account somewhere today explaining his sentence should have been somewhere beteen decades and hundreds of years.
Slapped on the wrist, and bet he will be out sooner, maybe months.
Federal sentencing guidelines require a person to complete 90% of their time. Unless of course Obiden pardons him
At Club Fed…
It certainly won’t be in a prison with J6 Gulag conditions.
Count on it.
If the Shaman’s sentence from the J6 charges can be used as example, he was released quite early. I believe the Fed prison system has newer guidelines on sentencing and time served and good behavior credits now. I looked it up back when I was surprised the Shaman was out.
If true, 2-3 years max would be my posit. And a book deal 🙂
I hope he has a cell with a pro President Trump patriot.
Lots of people with the name “Bubba” that look forward to meeting with this slime.
Bubba Clinton for example.
I’m hoping that Charlie Littlejohn(son) meets firsthand and up close with Bubba’s big johnson in prison….
😂😂😂
And with a last name of
Littlejohn….he will never
be the same when he gets
out of prison.
💁🤷♀️💁
No, MAGA people are too nice.
LittleJohn looks like he was compensated very well for his handy work.
Words matter and the judge doesn’t even know the Constitution or the Pledge of Allegiance.
Constitutional Republic.
Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden nominee to the bench, focused on Littlejohn’s decision to release Trump’s filings, which Reyes called “an attack on our constitutional democracy.”
If it was an “attack” (an insurrection) then shouldn’t the penalty reflect the severity of the crime? If you or I did this we would be fined and imprisoned for life.
Bring it, Roll Tide. As you stated these Aholes judges don’t even know what our true Constitutional Republic is or
represents.
Secondly, WE WOULD be imprisoned for the rest of our lives and 20x more because we believe in the rule of law
which is nonexistent these days.
“The leftist-media claim a 5-year sentence was harsh. However, in terms of the violations of privacy and law the sentence was a mere slap on the wrist.”
It’s all relative. Comey, who did far more, didn’t even get 5 years … … not even 5 minutes and a 5 cent fine. Invaders of America don’t get 5 years … … they get paid instead. Antifa actually won a large lawsuit against police. The examples are almost endless.
It’s time to bring back JUSTICE……
And who passed all these “tax loopholes” used by the wealthy to erase or reduce their tax burden?
It should have been five years for each page!
If someone did that to a sitting Democrat President, the sentence would have been 25+ years.
Injustice! Only 5 years?
Five years is a long time for a young man .
Repeal the 16th Amendment. . . .
It may be a “light” sentence, but I’ll be happy if really spends 5 years in Prison.
prepare to get frustrated.
prison prison is for people that justice doesn’t care about….throwaway people. people that commit crimes but have no “credential” or “standing” in society.
yes, it is unfair.
but that’s how our justice system operates. at least two different kinds of justice systems.
if you include how the justice system has “handled” President Trump, you can count that as an entire new variant of justice.
I once had faith in our justice system. I stopped holding that faith about 20 years ago, after reading time and time again this story that repeats itself:
violent criminals who are released back into society
big time fraudsters who bilk investors out of billions and get mild slaps on the wrist, or worse, allowed to plea down to fines and maybe a few months in club jailhouse for the rich.
and yet, the young kid down the street who decides to race on the most deserted road for fun, harming no one, get his license removed for a year, does 300 hours of community, paids 2000 in fines, and is humiliated. A kid…who just had that mood like we ALL HAVE DONE…to go fast ..harmless..
yeah, I could give more examples of how justice has failed in the USA, but you get the point.
this irs contractor is going to get club jailhouse for the professionals. He will probably get a book deal.
God Bless America
But he *does* get out….at some point.
“Littlejohn made a brief statement before the court, acknowledging that “I alone am responsible for this crime.” “
Hmm..
Is He lying to save himself from “suicide “ in jail.
Never settle for getting even, get ahead of the game.
Federal sentencing guidelines require him to serve 90% of his sentence. No exceptions. But he will be put in a Federal Camp and be eligible for employment on the outside.
covid rules and special parole rules would like you to hold it’s beer.
you do realize that epstein was on track to be released on parole in less than five?
think about that.
do you think thanos fraudster will actually serve 90 percent…come on man (joe malarkey voice)?
do you think sam brinkman asshole will get a serious term? (not kidding, another joe malarkey muttering)
I’m obviously cynical. I mean no offense. I am just pissed off that someone like this asshole is standing outside the court room FREE along with his attorney…and not immediately locked up and in jail right now.
it’s ridiculous how the justice system treats white “collar” criminals versus the rest of US..WE THE PEOPLE.
God Bless America
Well…consider Blago, a demonrat…turned humbled individual…? He served close to 8 years I think, of a 14 year sentence.
hit or miss?
If it had been President Trump or a Republican leaking the tax returns of the Clintons, the Bidens, Schumer, or Pelosi — it’s be 2000 counts x 5 years/count for a sentence of 10,000 years.
It’s good to be in the ruling
classcaste …“constitutional democracy” 🙄
What the Hell is that?
Do they still do the pledge of Allegiance in schools?
At the one near me…
they do say it.
It is over the loudspeaker and
you can hear it outside.
During my walks sometimes
I am in front of school as they
are saying it. What is really
fantastic is watching people
stop walking if in the parking lot,
any maintenance outside, people
on the sidewalk….stop whatever
they are doing and participate in
saying it.
Its an Elementary School.
Pretty awesome.
NO! Not for the past 50 years! I remember the teacher reading from the Bible first thing! Then a prayer, and lastly, the Pledge of Allegiance! That was in the 50’s.
We did the Pledge, then a song like “My Country Tis of Thee” or “America”.
We did OH Canada, God Save the Queen. Movie theaters, Hockey games all public places. Back in the 70’s.
this is a very very serious lack of justice. People turn over their personal financial information to the IRS/Federal Government. If said institution can not properly assure privacy and discretion, they don’t have a just reason to require the payment. It’s a basic breach of trust and if the Federal Government had any self-respect it would have thrown the book at this guy.
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I’m afraid that Biden will pardon him.
Meanwhile, the affected individuals need to sue his employer and these media for invasion of privacy. Maybe money judgments or just the misery of defending hundreds of lawsuits in numerous jurisdictions will help stem this kind of thing. Private tax returns aren’t the Pentagon Papers.
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Pardon? Hell he’ll be working for the DNC in 6 months.
Well, at least the judge didn’t let the little bastard off the hook.
Much.
These pencil keck geeks are terrified of prison. Maybe this will and a message to the next one.
Agree with that.
Hey, Don’t worry for him. He’ll be one of the thousands of last minute Presidential pardons issued next January.
The IRS reviewed and even audited President Trump’s tax returns for the past 40 years. They never had a problem with his taxes and neither did the New York State Department of Taxation in Albany. There was never any “there” there.
I have no idea how the Democrats and news media were able to make so much trouble over absolutely nothing.
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Right. They don’t just audit his numerous returns (each company) but do so on an “ongoing” basis, which basically means that they have okay’d what’s on the returns before they are filed. This is sometimes done because an item that comes into dispute on one return can have a ripple-like domino-effect on multiple returns of associated companies.
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He’s lucky he’s not a former POTUS. Otherwise they’d have slapped him with 475 years.
… as well as the filings of thousands of other wealthy people …
Give him 5 years for each filing leaked to the media.
Need his roomie to be Vlad the Cornholer.
Please, find another name. I know many Serbian and other people, hard working honest, totally nice people with that name. Use Joe, Bill, Barry. All due respect.
Sentence ought to be 5 yrs x 152 publicly leaked files = 760 years.
This brainwashed, radical leftist, whose actions hit at the root of our constitutional “democracy,” according to the judge, received less time than some innocents who simply strolled through the capital snapping selfies on January 6th, and I seriously doubt he had a swat team breaking down his door to get at him.
If you get a nation used to the idea that there is no real justice to be had, you tread in dangerous waters. The Christian faith, with its moral constraints, no longer holds the sway it once did in this country. The boundaries of the social fabric have become weak and tenuous. If it rips completely, those who consider themselves masters of the situation will likely be among the first to feel regret.
Who paid Charles Edward Littlejohn?
DOJ: Ex-IRS employee who leaked Trump’s tax returns intentionally got job to disclose records
Bart Jansen
USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – A former Internal Revenue Service contractor, who leaked tax information about Donald Trump and other wealthy individuals to news organizations, got his job to intentionally to spread the confidential records, according to Justice Department prosecutors.
Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, pleaded guilty in October to unauthorized disclosure of tax return and return information. U.S. District Judge Ana Reye scheduled sentencing for Jan. 29. Prosecutors recommended Tuesday he receive the maximum sentence of five years in prison.
“After applying to work as an IRS consultant with the intention of accessing and disclosing tax returns, Defendant weaponized his access to unmasked taxpayer data to further his own personal, political agenda, believing that he was above the law,” wrote prosecutors Corey Amundson, chief of the Justice Department’s public integrity section, Jennifer Clarke and Jonathan Jacobson.
View of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2023.
Littlejohn hasn’t filed his own arguments about his sentencing yet. But prosecutors described him as a college graduate with a loving family who had started a successful business and worked as a consultant.
“Based on his training, his personal experience, and his work, he understood the gravity of his offense,” prosecutors wrote. “He understood the impact that it would have on his victims. But he acted anyway.”
Just deep six the Mo F’er and let the chips fall. I know he’s a small fish but that’ll at least give pause to
the millions of other douche bags waiting to screw all of us WHITE, RACIST, SUPREMACISTS, TAX PAYERS.
Who paid the lawyer? A jelly-donut says the DNC paid!
Obiden will pardon him, on the way out the door.
If I were Judge … I would also have sentenced this scumbag to receive a complete forensic “lifestyle” audit from the IRS every single year … for the remainder of his life. A real anal-probe level of examination. Why? Because I want the IRS to find out who is funding this creep. Who has already … or will in the future … $$ PAY $$ this terrorist to invade the 4th Amendment privacy RIGHTS of these people.
He leaked the tax returns on around 2,000 people and received maybe 5 years. Less than one day for each leaked return. He should have to serve 5 years for each leaked return.
Also, Trump should be able to sue the IRS, bigly.
“Altogether, at least 152 people had their private information published in the media.”
Another case where multiple victims of crime are ignored because it is too hard to do the right thing.
Unless you are a Proud Boy member in another state on J6, then your crimes are especially heinous and you get 22 years in prison.
And yet the judiciary continues to ignore what a massive mess they have become.
What about an 83 million fine tacked…Err, Taxed on onto that sentence…
“A former IRS consultant………………”
So….Who, specifically, does he work for?
He could have been an ‘independent contractor’ uh or ‘consultant’ as was implied?
So why a “contractor”? I thought the IRS recently hired oddles of new employees.
Do they go outside their walls to get these nefarious things done? Is it easier to hide true intentions this way, lest there be some sort of investigation should things go off the rails?
booz allen
“Altogether, at least 152 people had their private information published in the media.”
If only one of those 152 brought a lawsuit for damages for having their information leaked to the media….
He needs his pretty face rearranged so it isn’t so pretty!
Sue him for $900,000,000
Thanks for your contribution useful idiot, you deserve many more!
The IRS has to be civilly liable here.
C’mon Charles did you really act alone?
So… Just because you have the info to publish does not mean you should..the publisher and the writer should spend a few years in jail too.. The only reason to make public anyone’s tax information is malicious intent to cause harm… Should have been sentenced to 10 years so he could actually serve 5 ..
I believe SD is missing the bigger points:
1) only convicted because he also leaked Bezos and Buffet too. Trump leak statute ran out.
2) Worked for Booz Allen. Same as Snowden with unlimited access to 702 search.
3) 5 years? They put a J6 grandma in jail for 5.
He will be released without fanfare in 24 months and go to work for the SLPC as an analyst.
Did any of Littlejohnie’s work go to Rachel Madcow ?
I have no doubt that Mr Littlejohn was well paid for the illegal releases of private tax returns. He didn’t do it for the thrill. I have no doubt that ProPublica coughed up a few million for the information. Why wasn’t the propaganda publication also seeing legal action?
Each incident of violation should be treated separately and each given the maximum sentence.
“When you target the sitting president of the United States, you’re targeting the office and when you’re targeting the office of the president of the United States, you’re targeting democracy — you’re targeting our constitutional system of government.”
These words coming from a judge sitting on the bench is a flipping joke.
If these X Shysters who sit on the bench applied the constitution and the law in every case we would not be where we now are.