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EXCLUSIVE: The House Ways and Means Committee is demanding answers from the Justice Department on why it charged a former IRS consultant with one count of unauthorized disclosure of taxpayer information, including information belonging to former President Trump and thousands of wealthy Americans, despite the individual admitting to two separate disclosures. The former IRS official, Charles Littlejohn, pleaded guilty last month to one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax return information. The Justice Department accused him of leaking tax information belonging to former President Trump and "thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals" to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. The...

The Internal Revenue Service recently awarded a lucrative contract to help modernize its computer databases to the same Washington firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, that employed the man who pleaded guilty last week to stealing and leaking thousands of private tax returns of wealthy Americans, including former President Trump, according to records reviewed by RealClearInvestigations. The massive IRS theft is the third major breach of confidential and classified government information by Booz Allen contractors over the last decade – including Edward Snowden's 2013 leak exposing the National Security Agency’s worldwide anti-terror surveillance program. Cyber-thief Charles “Chaz” Littlejohn was working on an...

A financial consultant who performed contract work for the IRS pleaded guilty Thursday to leaking reams of confidential tax returns filed by the wealthiest Americans, including those of then-President Donald Trump. Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, admitted in D.C. federal court that he obtained thousands of individuals’ tax returns by accessing an IRS database, and then leaked the materials to the New York Times and ProPublica beginning in 2019. The news organizations published blockbuster reports based on the trove of data, showing how Trump and the wealthiest Americans employed financial strategies to slash their federal tax bills, in some cases down...

A former consultant with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been charged with disclosing former President Trump's tax returns to the New York Times while he was in office, federal prosecutors said Friday. The Justice Department identified the suspect as Charles Littlejohn, 38, a Washington D.C. resident. In a federal complaint, the DOJ said Littlejohn disclosed the tax returns of "thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals" to news organizations and tax information associated with a "high-ranking government official" to a different news outlet. Fox News was told the second news organization that received stolen tax information is Pro Publica, a...

Part of the problem is that, as in many areas, old single-family houses have been torn down and turned into multiple blocks of flats and new homes have been built in back gardens as part of Two Jags' plan to concrete over the green belt in the 'snobby' Tory south. Electricity capacity has struggled to keep up with demand and the National Grid is held together with chewing gum. With Labour's open-door immigration policy putting Britain's burgeoning population on course for a Black-Hole-Of-Calcutta nightmare of 70 million, things can only get worse. Already, the electricity watchdog, Ofgem, is warning that...

Today's edition of You Couldn't Make It Up comes from Yorkshire, where a farmer has been fined £150 for 'failing to meet the psychological and ethological needs' of a cow. I still can't believe I've just written that sentence. Ronald Norcliffe's offence was to keep his cattle in a barn without electric light. When did that become a crime? If ever a case illustrated the absurdity of Britain's grotesque punishment culture, this is it. As I said here on Tuesday, all sense of reason and proportion has been jettisoned in the relentless pursuit of 'criminals' by our bloated, self-righteous, self-perpetuating,...

Frank Sinatra would have got the joke. In the words of the great political philosopher, they all laughed at Christopher Columbus when he said the world was round. They're all laughing, too, at John McCain for choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate. The usual suspects took one look at this pistol-packin' momma and reacted like John McEnroe to a disputed line call: you cannot be serious! Certainly, the pick came, as the Americans say, out of left field. But Sarah Palin is centre stage now, and suddenly it's game on. At the very least, McCain has got a wonderful...

While we're on the subject of 'no-go' areas, allow me to point you in the direction of last Friday's Woman's Hour on Radio 4. To be honest, Woman's Hour is a bit of a 'no-go' area for me. I've always been a Ken Bruce man myself. But a third of its listeners are men, one of whom, Mail reader Barry Gower from the Isle of Dogs, suggested I catch up with an item the programme broadcast about the suitability of women for police firearms duty. The officer in charge explained that there were no barriers to women being deployed in...

They looked like a Vauxhall Conference football team being led out at Wembley by Nora Batty before the final of the Leyland DAF trophy. Fourteen men kitted out in ill-fitting suits from the local branch of John Collier, John Collier, the window to watch, and a dumpy bird in a Les Dawson headscarf. They're coming home, they're coming home, they're coming. . . Blink and it could have been the Guildford branch of the Manchester United supporters' club arriving back at the airport, complaining about being roughed up by the Italian riot police. I'm sorry if this is going to...

Littlejohn: No DNA But Fiber Match In Imette St. Guillen Caseby Jim Brogan Mar 9, 2006 He has a criminal career that has spanned more than two decades and featured colorful aliases, such as John Handsome, Darryl Banks, and John Blaze. He once reportedly robbed a bank of more than $60,000 as Blaze -- during a blizzard. "It's tough enough in good weather, and you're doing it in a blizzard," one parole commissioner marveled at a 2004 hearing,according to one account. A parole board allegedly labeled him a menace to society. But until this week, 41-year-old Darryl Littlejohn was just...

Edwards is getting skewered for his almost grinning taunt to AlQaeda ... Howard Fineman notes if that's the best the Dems have got then the US will decide "we need Dick Cheney". Andrea Mitchell notes that it's impossible for Edwards to say anything and come across seriously because he's so young and Scarborough cracks a joke about how AlQaeda cannot take "the Breck Girl" seriously. Meanwhile on CNN lib gal laments Edwards came across as a slick "game show host" and "Jr." by any comparison.

US celebrities gathered to raise £4 million for John Kerry and John Edwards – or “kid” as Whoopi Goldberg called the newest addition to the Democratic presidential campaign. The comedienne greeted Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry, and then peered into the crowd looking for Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth Edwards. “And where’s the kid? Where’s young Mr Edwards? And, where’s my girl, where’s my girl?” Teasing Kerry, Goldberg said: “Not that your not youthful. You’re very youthful John. But he’s youthful. He looks like he’s 18!” Later she offered Kerry and Edwards a little advice: “John and John. Tell the...