The North American court sentenced a man responsible for leaking documents from former United States President Donald Trump’s income tax returns to five years in prison on Monday (29).
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Charles Littlejohn, aged 38, worked as an employee of the Inland Revenue Service. He pleaded guilty in October last year and judge Ana Reyes sentenced him to the maximum sentence.
He is accused of leaking information from “a senior government official” to a media outlet. According to the North American press, the information came from Donald Trump and the newspaper that received it was The New York Times.
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As a result, in 2020, the outlet reported that the billionaire paid just US$750 in federal income tax in 2016 and 2017 and no amount during the previous ten years.
In addition to Trump, Littlejohn was also accused of disclosing information about other people who are among the richest in the United States.
With that, for the Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri, “Littlejohn failed to fulfill his responsibility to protect sensitive information entrusted to him, and is now a convicted criminal.”
