The GOP House Committee on the Judiciary on Thursday announced the IRS has confirmed teh report that under teh Biden administration, over 400,000 American taxpayer information was leaked.
In a letter, acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O’Donnell wrote, “How the IRS has notified or plans to notify victims of whether their protected taxpayer information was provided to a third party, including but not limited to The New York Times and Pro Publica.”
O’Donnell added, “The IRS has mailed notifications to 405,427 taxpayers whose returns and/or return information was disclosed by Mr. Littlejohn.”
President Trump was one of the 405,000 Americans whose taxpayer information was leaked.
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Check out what The Daily Wire had to report:
On Thursday, the GOP House Committee on the Judiciary revealed that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) confirmed that under the Biden administration, the agency leaked taxpayer information of more than 405,000 Americans — including Donald Trump.
A letter from acting IRS Commissioner Douglas O’Donnell to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) stated, “How the IRS has notified or plans to notify victims of whether their protected taxpayer information was provided to a third party, including but not limited to The New York Times and Pro Publica. The Internal Revenue Code requires a taxpayer be notified if any person is criminally charged by indictment or information with inspection or disclosure of such taxpayer’s return or return information. The IRS has mailed notifications to 405,427 taxpayers whose returns and/or return information was disclosed by Mr. Littlejohn.”
Former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn leaked the information; he is currently serving time in a Florida prison.
“Before its latest notification, the IRS indicated that Littlejohn’s leaks impacted an estimated 70,000 taxpayers, roughly 17 percent of the total. The IRS told (Rep. Jim) Jordan it is still gathering materials necessary to respond to the entirety of his inquiry,” National Review noted. “Littlejohn admitted to using the IRS archive to access the tax returns and leaked them to the New York Times and ProPublica, a left-wing outlet that has participated in progressives’ push to delegitimize the Supreme Court.”
IRS admits anti-Trump taxman leaked data on 405K filers — six times more than previously known https://t.co/xIkPPFMygs pic.twitter.com/KmFqdYyEsc
— New York Post (@nypost) February 25, 2025
Per The New York Post:
A former Internal Revenue Service contractor who leaked President Trump’s tax returns to two media outlets also disclosed information about more than 405,000 other filers, the agency revealed to the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month.
The IRS previously said Charles Edward Littlejohn, 39, had exposed information on “more than 70,000” people and businesses in 2019 and 2020 when he provided ProPublica and the New York Times with copies of Trump’s tax returns.
Littlejohn is serving a five-year federal prison term in Florida after pleading guilty to the leaks and being sentenced in January 2024.
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