Federal investigators struggled to discover who released Donald Trump's tax returns until setting their sights on Charles Littlejohn for a separate leak.
IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty in October to one count of taking tax return information without authorization.
On two separate occasions, Littlejohn provided tax documents belonging to Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk to two news organizations.
Littlejohn initially provided The New York Times with 20 years of Donald Trump’s tax returns in 2019, which the news organization published a story about in September 2020.
Later, investigators began looking into a separate incident involving ProPublica, which published dozens of articles in 2021 on the tax returns of uber-wealthy Americans like Amazon’s Bezos and SpaceX CEO Musk.
From there, investigators began combing through employee and contractor search data to see if there were unusual queries that did not align with their specified job descriptions, the Journal reported, citing those same unnamed people.
On Friday, a letter written by former federal judge Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special monitor overseeing the fraud case, appeared to indicate that Trump may have engaged in massive tax evasion by claiming he owed more than $48 million in debt to one of his companies — but the loan never existed.
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IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty in October to one count of taking tax return information without authorization.
On two separate occasions, Littlejohn provided tax documents belonging to Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk to two news organizations.
Littlejohn initially provided The New York Times with 20 years of Donald Trump’s tax returns in 2019, which the news organization published a story about in September 2020.
Later, investigators began looking into a separate incident involving ProPublica, which published dozens of articles in 2021 on the tax returns of uber-wealthy Americans like Amazon’s Bezos and SpaceX CEO Musk.
From there, investigators began combing through employee and contractor search data to see if there were unusual queries that did not align with their specified job descriptions, the Journal reported, citing those same unnamed people.
On Friday, a letter written by former federal judge Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special monitor overseeing the fraud case, appeared to indicate that Trump may have engaged in massive tax evasion by claiming he owed more than $48 million in debt to one of his companies — but the loan never existed.
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