Posted on 01/18/2024 7:41:18 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence a former IRS contractor to five years in prison for leaking the tax records of former President Donald Trump and other wealthy Americans to the media.
In court papers Tuesday, prosecutors urged the judge to impose the statutory maximum of five years in prison for Charles Littlejohn of Washington, D.C., after he pleaded guilty in October to one count of disclosing tax return information without authorization. Littlejohn also admitted to leaking tax records belonging to “over a thousand” other wealthy people.
In a plea agreement last year, government attorneys estimated eight to 14 months’ imprisonment based on federal sentencing guidelines, with both parties reserving the right to seek a deviation from those guidelines, prosecutor Jonathan Jacobson said in Tuesday’s filing.
But he also called the sentencing range “flatly inconsistent with the gravity of the offense."
“The scope and scale of Defendant’s unlawful disclosures appear to be unparalleled in the IRS’s history,” Jacobson contended. “There simply is no precedent for a case involving the disclosure of tax return and return information associated with ‘over a thousand’ individuals and entities.”
In 2020, The New York Times published a report saying that it had obtained more than two decades of Trump’s tax information and that he had paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. The following year, ProPublica published reporting on the taxes of wealthy people.
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Surprising and dumb move. They are attacking the home team here.
Prosecute the media outlets that ran with this obvious illegal information. It’s no different than the media making trades on insider information, it’s a crime.
No they aren’t. They are trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube, they are panicked with the populist movement and Trump and know they may well be on the receiving end of this next year!
He’s gonna make a lot of new friends in Federal prison.
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He’ll be the “Belle of the Ball” in prison.
That’s Federal “Pound Me In the A” Prison.
Yep. They’re gonna spit roast that boy like a chicken on a BBQ grill.
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5 years for this huge abuse of trust. 20+ years for strolling through the Capital.
It would seem to me, given the Assange and Snowden situations, that anyone who used the leaked returns on TV, like Maddow and the rest, should be prosecuted for being an accessory to a crime.
And yet Lois Lerner is still free.
Bitch should have been drawn and quartered. But that’s just me.
5 years in St.Thomas, a plaque, cash bonus, and a sternly worded letter.
They’ll put him in a minimum security lockup; he’ll spend 2 1/2 years playing Parchesi with geezers old enough to be his grandfather, and leave with the equivalent of a Master’s Degree in scamming and fraud ...
“ he’ll spend 2 1/2 years playing Parchesi with geezers old enough to be his grandfather..”
No parole in the Federal system. He’s going to do 90%.
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Freedom of the press. Good luck with that.
Oh ... Make that Ph.D. in scamming and fraud ...
Freedom stops when they do illegal stuff.
Littlejohn also admitted to leaking tax records belonging to “over a thousand” other wealthy people.
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Then why isn’t Littlejohn being sentenced on over one thousand counts of breaking this law?
Exactly. This guy won’t serve more than 18 months regardless of the sentence. BUT, the Feds are warning any possible anti-Deep State leakers that they will get hammered by seeking “the maximum.” A pro-Trump leaker will have charges stacked on one another, combined with RICO-type charges, and will be looking at 80-100 years.
The Feds will then say they ALWAYS seek the maximum in such cases.
God bless President Trump and his family.
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