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)
Enlist his sorry ass and ship him to some sh*t hole for Biden’s lost ass ad Austin’s giant ass.
I assume the Clinton Foundation and Jeffrey Epstein where not leaked
f$%k him
He should have thought twice. Bubba is gonna make him a woman.
Hopin’.
He’ll likely be in a country club prison.
He will appeal the sentence and do Community service at home.
He is already the woman.
Too late.
The NY Times and ProPublica should be prosecuted for conspiracy, aiding and abetting a crime. This was not freedom of the press.
This guy divulged thousands of records and should be charged accordingly. 5 years is nothing. He isn’t being punished for showing Trumps returns, it’s all the other’s tax records.
Should be five years PER RETURN. He’d never leave prison alive. If he leaked Clinton’s return he’d already be dead.
No, not like a FOIA request! Lol.
I agree that the NY Slimes should have some blame as well.
PICKUP THE SOAP IN THE SHOWER WHEREVER THE MAY SEND YOU SCUMBAG !
Hey, I saw this guy circling my toilet bowl when I flushed it this morning.
If President Trump had been the ONLY victim of this crime, would there have even been a prosecution?
Which white collar Club Fed institution will he be released from 3 or so months from now like PT’s lawyer Cohen? Or will Biden pardon him whenever he leaves the WH?
We can yell and complain, declare our position on what “should be done”, fleck the screen with spittle, get our bowels in an uproar all we want.
None of it will matter.
None of it.
The Left is winning at every position and on every subject; electing Trump will only be a finger in the dyke but it’s the only finger we have. What comes next?
There will be no change until the government and its minions fears the citizens.
God will not intervene, in my opinion – I expect a wave of indignant examples and shaming. But your prayers and mine are best spent asking for guidance and forgiveness, and for the good judgment free will provides; God was made man and delivered the intervention required for redemption, how we manage the earthly habitat from then on is our doing not his.
Does the US have to be destroyed to be rebuilt? Is a New Confederacy the next best step? There is no solution in yet another theater piece of a Congressional hearing, another set of pointed questions with zero effect, or another reassurance from the GOPe that if we compromise just this one more time…
There is a false flag event out there just waiting to be tripped.
I am open to suggestions and I am happy to be proven wrong, but show me the progress toward restoring liberty rather than its decline over the past 60 years. What measure and of what value is improving?
Well damn. I think we should all just quit and start rooting for totalitarian communism, then bend over when it gets here.
Denying & mocking the truth Dan speaks accomplishes what exactly, Hoo?
Well said & sadly, spot on.
Pray, pray unceasingly.
The first step in bringing about the change we need…..is waking the American people up to what is and has been going on. THAT sir is what is happening right now. And the proof of that is the ongoing, growing MAGA movement. We are in the midst of The Great Awakening. In order for what needs to be done…..the people will need to be behind…what needs to be done. Yes, I know you and I and the other treepers here and in other places are awake to whatever extent. But, we need the independents, we even need the democrats. We won’t get everybody. But we need 80-90% of the population to awake and understand that we are in a war against a tyrannical government and creatures that do not have America in their best interest. This is a planned and orchestrated take down….and yet still many do not understand that. And the only way people will wake up to it is though experience! Everything that happens now…wakes more people up. The more traumatic and closer to home the event…the more likely one is to awaken. Look at the Trump Train now compared to a year ago. Much larger! And we are a year or so out. It continues to grow. The worse the economy gets…the more it affects people….the more they wake up. The closer we get to a war and hear the call for a draft….the more people will awaken. When there is a terrorist attack in this country….and it will happen, just a matter of when….more people will awaken. Trump and team will be able to show the establishment that the people…are with him. And this will be so massive….they will not be able to cheat as they have. Of course, they have no intention of ever allowing him to be President again….they can’t. So THEY will have to come up with something. They won’t be able to have Kamala send it back to the electors….Trump outsmarted them on that….they passed a law this can not be done after Pence didn’t. They will have to resort to a false flag….maybe cyber attack. But there will certainly be major distractions, riots, civil unrest…..whatever to take the attention off establishment And their sinister agenda.
if a popular uprising with rakes and sickles is what you’re suggesting as the only solution than you can pretty much pack it in and go home without a catastrophic, economic collapse that would make the 1930’s look like a Sunday afternoon walk in the park.
Hmmm so just go ahead and make the trains run on time? F that we are going to get an economic collapse one way or another. What matters is whats on the other side of it.
Fjb and all his Fascist friends
I’m curious how you would define “restoring liberty”? Can you give me specific examples of what liberty would look like. What are you currently NOT allowed to do in your life that you would be able to do if we restored liberty?
Go look at every thing you need a government approved license or ID to do and get back to me.
You cannot be serious.
Read the US Constitution, your State Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
Now compare the limited governance described there, and the muscular personal freedom and responsibility defined by the absence of restriction to your life and what you observe.
The equation is not balanced.
The real slap on the wrist will come 5-8 months into the sentence when he is let out for good behavior.
He’ll be out much earlier. Liberal White Privelege.
Never a minute behind bars.
Can Trump sue him in Civil Court?
Why do all of these cases around President Trump get assigned RANDOMLY to Democrat judges!
Boasberg
How do convicts in prison like crooked IRS agents who commit Treason and abuse their power? He doesn’t look like he will have much ability to fight back if they don’t like his kind. He deserves to reap what he’s sown.
People in jail love Trump for fighting the corrupt gov`t.
People who commit non violent crimes don’t go to the type of prison you’re thinking of….for good reason.
LOL
There are a handlful of prisons where one could reasonably expect to be safe. But if you go to jail ofr fraud nobody cares. they pack you up and send you to Prison. Felony prison you will bunk with the guy who robbed the liqour store and the guy who shot his poker buddy.
You may find out they had good reasons. You may find out they are psychotic. If your real good they may show you their collection of shivs if your extra nice. Prisoners run the prisons the guards just run the gates and contriban.
And he only got one charge instead of numerous charges.
This guy should be sent to the same dungeon as the J6 prisoners.
The problem hear is the criminal DOJ that only charged one count. The Judge was upset about that, so she could only impose the maximum sentence once.
This will only encourage the next moralizing leaker.
They don’t care about down the road precedent hence the filibuster rules.
Was he the one who got a job at the IRS specifically to do this.
Yes. Reportedly.
Leak details about his little 3 inch john.
I wouldn’t fault him if he wrote a book or something about the techniques used to eliminate or lower taxes used by the wealthy, but naming names was unnecessary.
Having said that, does anyone know how much Elon, Bezos and Soros paid?
I’m curious about what the NYT et al., paid him.
The fake sentence is all for show, he’ll be out on “probation” and slither back into the den of democrat cockroach’s that bred him as soon as the regime drops another distraction… tomorrow.
That’s how the democrat/communist cabal rolls
There are many people in and out of government just like Charles LittleProstitute who have no ethical sense and are used as tools for the Deep Staters.
Bubba is going to like him.
Why is the NYT not on trial?
Even if you are ultra-rich, you are under no obligation to pay tax you don’t owe. Paying tax and being virtuous are not related.
Agreed. At this point it’s legitimate for people to pay no tax.
He was sentenced. Let’s see how soon he actually reports to be imprisoned and if he actually goes inside (of a country club “prison”) and if so how long before he’s quietly released and given a comfortable sinecure to keep his yap shut.
Let’s hope that this little squirt finally experiences what the prison shower is all about.
If they don’t send him to one of those white collar crime facilities I doubt that little twerp makes it out of prison alive,
It might be a slap on the wrist….but 5 years in a prison will seem like a lifetime…..and that’s if he makes it out alive. He could be beaten, raped, stabbed, mutilated, disfigured, stuck in solidary confinement…for his safety….etc. It’s a cold, uncaring world in prison. He’s gonna need a big buddy to keep him from having a lot of big buddies! Maybe he should have been Transgendering while his case was going on…because by the looks of him….he might have a better chance in a woman’s proson!
Non violent criminals and non drug related criminals don’t go to that kind of prison, for good reason.
They both have punchable faces.
Should have been more time given to this soy-boy, self righteous, in need of a kick in the behind ne’er do well.
I assume the affected parties cannot sue the Deep Pocket Employer…
And, of course, he’s a hero to the evil leftists. Throw the son of bitch in the DC gulag to be tortured with all the innocent J6 protesters.
Doubtful he will spend a day in jail. Our illustrious DOJ will make sure of that. They will commend him for meritorious service.
He looks like a gay Hitler! Same weird stache as Buttijizz!
Whistleblower? What did he blow the whistle on? There was nothing illegal or even politically damaging in the tax returns.
Damage already done and the years it took to get a responsible decision are sufficient to make this a short term action, by haters of our Constitution, any time the results can be circulated in less than a few months
The two editors should have been jailed for accepting stolen goods without checking.
…and the punishments for the NYT & ProPublica? By publishing these documents aren’t they complicit in his crime?
If you believe Charles Littlejohn is the real name of a real person who is going to prison for five years, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
“I did nothing wrong.” ~ Lois Lerner
Whistle blower?
BS.
Propublica should be charged as well.
Those people whose tax returns were stolen had done nothing wrong.
This is “activist doxxing” on steroids. Doxxing usually leverages the abundant public information out there to do their dirty work. But as we’ve seen, this new level of doxxing involves activists WITHIN private companies and WITHIN government to provide access to sensitive that is not public. This is all an INSANE level of criminality and in the case of government employees (and contractors if you don’t considered them to be employees) this is ESPIONAGE and TREASON. It’s TREASON because they seek to take down the existing government as their end goal, not to take control and run it by the rule of law, but to take it DOWN and run under an entirely different basis of ideology.
Hm, whoever received those forms at the NY Slimes and ProPublica should also be tried as accessories to the crime.
Established precedent effectively washes the hands of the press/media. As much as I would like to see these co-conspirators hang with the rest of the traitors, we have established precedent which protects the publishers of “news.” Now, this doesn’t apply to Project Veritas (prior to the O’Keefe coup) because they were the recipient of materials which they didn’t even publish. But the precedent itself and the standards established are good ones and would be best to leave as-is.
But just like the rest of the current left-wing propaganda outlets, they are all DYING financially from the public’s refusal to consume their lies. It’s why so many have been laid off for “doing great journalism.”
We punish them by ignoring them. And it is working because they are FAILING.
5 years is a LOT of time to be in prison. Is it the sentence that should be applied to this level of criminality? NOPE! Absolutely not. This is “Criminal Activism” and the “by any means necessary” crowd doesn’t see this as a big deal unless it is “done to their side.”
As Dan Bongino points out, this isn’t an inconsistency, this is about HIERARCHY. In their minds, they are at WAR and we are the ENEMY. If we did that, they would be in the mindset of “war crimes” and will do more than the maximum in terms of punishment (just like Jan 6th hostages). But the sticky part of this is that it was an ALLY.
This ALLY isn’t a criminal in their minds — this is a HERO of the cause. However, they can’t square a lack of punishment in this case because already the public is outraged at the inconsistent and unbiased delivery of justice. And they know this and must PRETEND to deliver justice.
Lots of pretending. Lots of pretending.
In reality, we are playing by two sets of rules — THEY are playing by “by any means necessary” rules and we are playing by the rule of law. There should be a new way to prosecute this level of TREASON. And it is treason because they aim to abuse and defraud this system in a way which is quite similar to organized crime. One could call this a RICO case but it’s actually much larger and far worse — it’s ideological warfare against the US Constitutional government of the USA and all of the states in the union. This is why it is TREASON.
MAGA needs it own version of the DC gulag just for people like this. Ya know the one I mean, the kind where the cameras don’t work and the guards sleep most of the time.
No. This doesn’t need a political solution. This type of crime needs to be properly classified as treason as part of a much larger ideological campaign intent on undermining and destroying this government based on the US Constitution. It’s ALL Treason.
Agreed, but when the 1st domino falls it ain’t gonna be in court. I forget but it’s something about ” hard times make hard men, hard men make better times “. The country is being run by a ” political mafia ” with the same style and same framework and same methods and we’re not gonna change the trajectory by being nice. Hope your day is blessed.
It’s being run by people complicit with American Maoism. Probably the best description of the state of things today.
ProPublica spokeswoman Alexis Stephens said: “Whistleblowers are often the lifeblood of investigative journalism” and “they deserve protection not prosecution.”
He is not a whistle-blower. He stole the private info of citizens not accused of any crimes. I don’t begrudge Americans using the tax codes to their advantage. Congress could fix this, if they wanted.
Cool. Now sue him for $83 million.
This sentence will be suspended by Memorial day.
Why can’t the individuals sue him for harm?
Whistle blowing?! Hardly. Whistle blowing is what former government officials do when the government acts corruptly.