Federal prosecutors announced charges Friday against Charles Littlejohn, an IRS contractor they accused of leaking the secret tax information of a major government official and thousands of wealthy Americans to the news media.
Federal prosecutors announced charges Friday against Charles Littlejohn, an IRS contractor they accused of leaking the secret tax information of a major government official and thousands of wealthy Americans to the news media.
Court documents don’t reveal the name of the public official nor the news outlets, but the IRS had been searching for the culprit who leaked then-President Donald Trump’s tax information to The New York Times, and also the leaker of a “vast cache” of IRS information about wealthy Americans to ProPublica.
