Key takeaways:
- Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., was charged with wrongfully disclosing tax return information, including the tax returns of former President Donald Trump.
- Littlejohn is accused of stealing the tax return information and giving it to two different news outlets between 2018 and 2020.
- Littlejohn is facing charges of unauthorized disclosure of a suspicious financial transaction report and unauthorized inspection of returns or return information. If convicted, he could face up to five years in prison.
A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service was charged Friday with wrongfully disclosing tax return information, including the tax returns of former President Donald Trump.
Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., is accused of stealing the tax return information and giving it to two different news outlets between 2018 and 2020, the Justice Department said in a statement.
According to court documents, Littlejohn, who was working as a government contractor at the IRS, stole tax return information linked with a public official “and thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, including returns and return information dating back more than 15 years.”
The outlets are not named in charging documents, but a source confirmed to NBC News that Trump was the unnamed public official whose records had been leaked. Both organizations published numerous articles about the tax information.
Littlejohn is facing charges of unauthorized disclosure of a suspicious financial transaction report and unauthorized inspection of returns or return information. If convicted, he could face up to five years in prison. The Justice Department is continuing to investigate the case.
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