The man who stole and leaked former President Donald Trump and thousands of other’s tax records has been sentenced to five years in prison.

In October, Charles Littlejohn, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized disclosures of income tax returns. According to his plea agreement, he stole Trump’s tax returns along with the tax data of “thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people,” while working for a consulting firm with contracts with the Internal Revenue Service.

Littlejohn leaked the information to two news outlets and deleted the documents from his IRS-assigned laptop before returning it and covered the rest of his digital tracks by deleting places where he initially stored the information.

Judge Ana Reyes highlighted the gravity of the crime, saying multiple times that it amounted to an attack against the US and its legal foundation.

  • @linearchaos
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    310 months ago

    They are lawmakers.

    Incentives would be to engage whistleblowers, forcing all to be more transparent in cases where no one is physically harmed.

    • @AeonFelis
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      510 months ago

      Okay. Now pretend for a moment we are talking about the real planet Earth with the existing legislators of it’s actual countries.

      • @linearchaos
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        410 months ago

        You get approximately 0% of the change you never seek.