Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Newsmax on Tuesday that the House Judiciary Committee, which he chairs, is looking into what he considers a favorable deal that a former IRS contractor received from the Biden administration’s Department of Justice leading to him pleading guilty to stealing thousands of tax returns and delivering some to left-wing media outlets.
The former contractor, Charles Littlejohn, pleaded guilty in October 2023 to unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information, and was sentenced in January 2024 to five years in prison, according to the Department of Justice. Littlejohn reportedly admitted to using the IRS archive to access the tax returns and leaked them to The New York Times and ProPublica.
The IRS initially revealed that 70,000 returns from 2019 and 2020, including those of President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett, were stolen. But in a letter to Jordan dated Feb. 14, acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O’Donnell said the IRS “mailed notifications to 405,427 taxpayers whose taxpayer information was inappropriately disclosed by Mr. Littlejohn. Approximately 89% of the taxpayers are business entities.”
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