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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    11 months ago

    Honestly I think they should slip something into the law

    Remind me again who are “they” exactly, and what are their incentives?

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      11 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.

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        11 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.