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An IRS contractor, Charles Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to disclosing tax return information without authorization.
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According to court documents, Littlejohn, while working at the IRS as a government contractor, stole tax return information associated with a high-ranking government official (Public Official A). Littlejohn accessed tax returns associated with Public Official A – and related individuals and entities – on an IRS database after using broad search parameters designed to conceal the true purpose of his queries. He then evaded IRS protocols established to detect and prevent large downloads or uploads from IRS devices or systems. Littlejohn then saved the tax returns to multiple personal storage devices, including an iPod, before contacting News Organization 1. Between around August 2019 and October 2019, Littlejohn provided News Organization 1 with the tax return information associated with Public Official A. Littlejohn then stole additional tax return information related to Public Official A and provided it to News Organization 1. In September 2020, News Organization 1 published a series of articles about Public Official A’s tax returns.
In July and August 2020, Littlejohn separately stole tax return information for thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals. Littlejohn was again able to evade IRS detection. In November 2020, Littlejohn disclosed this tax return information to News Organization 2, which published over 50 articles using the stolen data. Littlejohn then obstructed the forthcoming investigation into his conduct by deleting and destroying evidence of his disclosures.
Littlejohn pleaded guilty to unauthorized disclosure of tax return and return information. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 29, 2024, and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
An IRS contractor, Charles Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to disclosing tax return information without authorization.
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According to court documents, Littlejohn, while working at the IRS as a government contractor, stole tax return information associated with a high-ranking government official (Public Official A). Littlejohn accessed tax returns associated with Public Official A – and related individuals and entities – on an IRS database after using broad search parameters designed to conceal the true purpose of his queries. He then evaded IRS protocols established to detect and prevent large downloads or uploads from IRS devices or systems. Littlejohn then saved the tax returns to multiple personal storage devices, including an iPod, before contacting News Organization 1. Between around August 2019 and October 2019, Littlejohn provided News Organization 1 with the tax return information associated with Public Official A. Littlejohn then stole additional tax return information related to Public Official A and provided it to News Organization 1. In September 2020, News Organization 1 published a series of articles about Public Official A’s tax returns.
In July and August 2020, Littlejohn separately stole tax return information for thousands of the nation’s wealthiest individuals. Littlejohn was again able to evade IRS detection. In November 2020, Littlejohn disclosed this tax return information to News Organization 2, which published over 50 articles using the stolen data. Littlejohn then obstructed the forthcoming investigation into his conduct by deleting and destroying evidence of his disclosures.
Littlejohn pleaded guilty to unauthorized disclosure of tax return and return information. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 29, 2024, and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Haha... evade IRS detection, twice... good one...
not really, most of this is intentionally false. It is good to be king.
<on second thot, redacted> This is all online.
AND, 'GERS' (that is actually the acronym of the storage device protection) flags accesses as well with cyber. you cannot even charge your phone off the USB port without a security record being generated. As I said, it was known who, where, when the next day. It had to be suppressed from up high. you have exactly zero choice. Lois Lerner all over again.
not one person in the executive chain that signed off on this, will be punished in any way.
and of course, <redacted>, we are linkedin connected. such is the closed size of the knowledge circle. In a convo with my mgr friday I asked why I was not interviewed...they want this under the rug. again, its good to be king. treason is simply a matter of dates...
FWIW when the NYT story hit the wire 5 years ago, ALL of us at treasury - well ok, the non corrupt ones - asked how this is even possible. rulz, regs, statutes etc. we were told in writing, dont ask.
so here is what happened, lets say he did this on the first monday in july 2018. Tuesday am and at 0-dark thrity, the log of all transactions was closed and rolled to the next day, a job somewhere ran that created a large set of datasets and it was washed.
Trump, like govt employees, has a protected TIN, so system accesses using his TIN kicked out. then the ID of the person who did the access was compared to see if they were assigned the TIN. BUT! in the case of the prez, only a very very small set of agents, and senior ones at that, can be assigned the prez records. so by 10am, noon at the latest, a set of 'alarms' (not really alarms, just emails notices with the outlook red ! showed up.) you cannot in any way, circumvent this system.
whomever got them went to their boss in TIGTA (lookitup) and probably a few bosses up and up and up until an obama appointee in both TIGTA and the IRS made the call to bury this. 2nd time in the last set of years the US taxpayers got bamboozled.
Because he pled guilty and accepted the max 5 year country club sentence (more like 9 months) and because a Soros shell corporation issued a 7 figure 1099 in his name, this will NEVER be looked at.
so given the parameters, by the first tuesday after the first monday in july of 2018, everyone knew WHO broke the law at WHAT time, and WHERE they were sitting.
But according to democrats, this is ok, because...welll TRUMP!
There are no dark recesses in the US govt where the DNC corruption is not present. none.
You missed the part that the return(data) wasn't selected by taxpayer ID info but by "broad search parameters". Huge flaw in the system, but sort of understandable no one thought to program for it.
Littlejohn pulled all the return data by searching for types of taxable income/amounts he knew or suspected would be on the returns he wanted.
The system only flags for unauthorized access when you pull by name or TIN and have no reason to be doing so.
You missed the part that the return(data) wasn't selected by taxpayer ID info but by "broad search parameters". Huge flaw in the system, but sort of understandable no one thought to program for it.
Littlejohn pulled all the return data by searching for types of taxable income/amounts he knew or suspected would be on the returns he wanted.
The system only flags for unauthorized access when you pull by name or TIN and have no reason to be doing so.
no I didnt miss that, its not how the system works.
I have more, but Im 99.9% sure I cannot discuss it outside of the treasury walls and im 200% sure no one is cleared to hear it.
suffice to say, you cannot return the records, without alarms or put another way, since the 'breach' was discovered 5 years ago, how much was changed? exactly zero. this was driven by the deep state. Including the contractors placement.
no I didnt miss that, its not how the system works.
I have more, but Im 99.9% sure I cannot discuss it outside of the treasury walls and im 200% sure no one is cleared to hear it.
suffice to say, you cannot return the records, without alarms or put another way, since the 'breach' was discovered 5 years ago, how much was changed? exactly zero. this was driven by the deep state. Including the contractors placement.
What, exactly, is this so called "deep state" that Trump and his misguided followers keep harping on?
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