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From Fox News: A man serving in prison for leaking President Donald Trump’s and thousands of others’ confidential tax records recently asserted his Fifth Amendment right to the House Judiciary Committee and declined to testify before the panel, Fox News Digital has learned.
A public defender wrote to the Republican-led committee on behalf of Charles Littlejohn, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor serving out a five-year sentence in Illinois, that because Littlejohn was appealing his sentence, he did not have to testify before Congress.
“The testimony that you seek from Mr. Littlejohn directly implicates his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination,” the public defender wrote on Saturday. “Mr. Littlejohn validly exercises that Constitutional right in declining to testify.”
The Republican-led House committee is investigating a plea deal Littlejohn reached with the Biden administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2023. Littlejohn admitted to prosecutors as part of the plea bargain that he carried out an elaborate scheme to access and disclose Trump’s tax information and the tax returns of thousands of the wealthiest U.S. citizens to The New York Times and ProPublica.
Although Littlejohn literally admitted that his scheme impacted thousands, the Biden administration plea deal resulted in him getting a slap on the wrist, as he was only charged with and pleaded guilty to a single count of unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and received the maximum 60-month sentence for the one charge.
The report notes that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) fired off a letter Tuesday to the Justice Department, requesting all communications and other records surrounding Littlejohn’s prosecution. Jordan slammed the Biden administration DOJ fir failing to provide “any substantive” information.
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