House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is launching a new probe into how the U.S. Department of Justice handled its prosecution of an IRS contractor convicted of leaking former President Donald Trump’s tax records.
This September, the DOJ filed a criminal information letter with the U.S. District Court for Washington, alleging Charles Littlejohn gathered the tax records of thousands of wealthy U.S. citizens while working for Booz Allen-Hamilton, a company contracted with the IRS. Mr. Littlejohn immediately entered into a plea agreement in which he admitted guilt for a single count of unauthorized disclosure of tax information, and was sentenced last month to a five-year prison term, along with a $5,000 fine….
