IRS worker who leaked Trump’s taxes begs for leniency, tells court he acted to ‘benefit society’
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, January 26, 2024
The IRS consultant who leaked tax returns of former President Donald Trump and thousands of other wealthy Americans pleaded with a judge to show some leniency, casting himself as digital-era Robin Hood, crusading to steal data from the privileged in a bid to “benefit society.”
Charles Littlejohn, scheduled to be sentenced Monday in federal court in Washington, said through his lawyer that he now sees what he did was wrong. But at the time, he felt righteous in his anger and justified in releasing information he felt the public had a right to see, even if the law disagreed.
Littlejohn also said he was looking to do something big after learning of a distressing medical diagnosis for his father.
“If ever I found myself scared to push further I would think about everything I had done so far, everything that led up to this moment and I’d push through,” he wrote in his diary the day he first reached out to The New York Times to share the then-president’s tax returns.
The newspaper reported the details in September 2020, just weeks before the presidential election.
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