A Washington man who worked as a consultant with the US Internal Revenue Service has been charged with stealing the confidential tax information of thousands of the wealthiest Americans and leaking it to a news organization.
Charles Littlejohn, 38, had a contract with the IRS from 2018 to 2020 and stole tax returns dating back more than 15 years, including those of a public official, who wasn’t identified, according to charging papers filed in Washington federal court Friday. He faces one count of unlawfully disclosing tax information, a felony punishable by as much as five years in prison.
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