Prosecutors said they have already notified the smaller group of victims whose information was published through the mail and phone calls, but prosecutors said that notifying thousands of victims that way “would be impractical.” His lawyer previously declined to comment on the allegations.įederal law requires that prosecutors notify any crime victims they can identify, and IRS rules similarly require notification of all taxpayers whose return information was improperly disclosed. Littlejohn has not yet entered a formal plea. Littlejohn allegedly leaked some of that information – including Trump’s – to national media organizations, and reporters published information on more than 150 victims, according to court documents.
The ex-IRS contractor accused of leaking former President Donald Trump’s tax returns disclosed so many people’s tax information that prosecutors want to notify the thousands of victims through a public website, according to a court filing Wednesday.Ĭharles Littlejohn, of Washington, DC, is accused of stealing Internal Revenue Service data from thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people.
