IRS contractor charged with leaking tax return info on Donald Trump

A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax information to news outlets (Patrick Semansky, AP)

A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about thousands of the country’s wealthiest people.

Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, of Washington DC, is accused of stealing the tax return information and giving it to two news outlets between 2018 and 2020, the Justice Department said in a statement.