IRS Contractor Charged with Illicitly Accessing and Sharing Tax Returns, Including Possibly Trump, US

An IRS contractor has been charged with illegally accessing and sharing tax returns, potentially including those of former President Donald Trump. The contractor, Charles Edward Littlejohn, served with the IRS from 2018 to 2020 and is accused of misappropriating tax data belonging to a Public Official A and sharing it with a media outlet. While the individual’s identity has not been officially disclosed, sources have suggested that it may be Trump. Littlejohn is also suspected of stealing IRS data from other wealthy Americans over a period of fifteen years and providing it to another media organization. The New York Times and ProPublica previously published stories on tax records around the time of Littlejohn’s alleged actions, but they have not been implicated in any wrongdoing. Littlejohn now faces charges related to the unauthorized dissemination of tax returns and return information, which could result in a maximum prison sentence of five years. The media organizations involved claim to be unaware of the source of the leaked tax details.