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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 28 points 11 months ago

How was he not protected under whistleblower laws?

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

He wasn't reporting anything illegal - just wrong.

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[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

Is there a way to write him a letter? Idk how your prison system works, but this dude needs some encouragement for what he did.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Is there a way to write him a letter?

Theoretically, yes, that should be a big old 1st amendment free speech right, but since this is a legal right for a poor person expect it to be a big pain to exercise

Anyway, all the instructions should be on this page here

https://web.archive.org/web/20240129195016/https://www.bop.gov/inmates/communications.jsp

However each of those methods is going to require getting a match on the inmate locator, and since I don't think he is actually incarcerated yet there aren't any matching results (and it will probably take some time after he's been incarcerated for his record to start showing up)

I also found what looks like a GoFundMe page for him, which might be a way to get in contact with his family and friends, which might be a better way of contacting him (among other things, the prison email system only allows inmates to send messages to approved contacts and they're limited to 30 of those, so sending everything to someone with regular email who could be one of those contacts and just forward things along might work best) - https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.gofundme.com/f/charles-littlejohns-legal-defense-fund

I should add I haven't verified that GoFundMe is legitimate, but it looks like it is

[-] KeefChief13@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago
[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 18 points 11 months ago

And Biden won't pardon him.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

But he's gonna lock down the border and bypass congress to ship weapons to Israel.

[-] awesomesauce309@midwest.social 10 points 11 months ago

Trump and his base already conflate his many court cases catching up to him as the DOJ sent to stop a political rival. If Biden just pardoned the person who “stole” Trumps taxes, we’d hear about it nonstop til November.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don’t do something because it might piss of the Republicans is not gonna cut it as an excuse.

And as we have all seen, they will straight up invent a reason to complain nonstop until November if they don’t have a real one.

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[-] donescobar@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Can you imagine the storm in truth social if Biden pardoned this guy lmao, cmon Biden!

[-] MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.com 15 points 11 months ago

Let's hope he didn't sleep under any bridges, too. That would be what they call a repeat offender.

[-] generalpotato@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Exposing a convicted criminal is a crime against the US and its legal foundation? GTFOH.

On the other hand, maybe said “legal foundation” is said to protect those with money and influence and punish those who dare to move beyond the systemic injustices present. Maybe this judge was correct after all.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

You'd have thought he was Russian opposition and he had revealed something about Putin!

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