More than 400,000 taxpayers—mostly business entities—had their information exposed in an IRS contractor’s leak of rich Americans and others’ tax returns, according to a letter from the IRS to House Judiciary Committee Republicans.
Former agency contractor Charles Littlejohn admitted to stealing the tax returns of prominent billionaires and President Donald Trump between 2018 and 2020 and then leaking them to news organizations, which published a series of stories with the information.
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a Jan. 30 letter to the agency seeking details on how many taxpayers had information exposed in the leak.
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