Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wants information on the plea deal that was offered to the IRS contractor who leaked the tax returns of President Donald Trump to the press.
Jordan wrote a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi about Charles Littlejohn, who leaked Trump's tax returns to ProPublica and the New York Times.
Littlejohn pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax information and received a five-year prison sentence.
In his letter, Jordan said the Judiciary Committee has learned the scope of Littlejohn's leak was much broader than the Biden-Harris administration told the public.
Jordan noted while prosecutors said the scale of Littlejohn's leak was "unparalleled in the IRS's history," including return information of 18,000 people and 73,000 businesses, he was only forced to plead guilty to one felony count.
"During Mr. Littlejohn's sentencing, the judge expressed that she was 'perplexed' and 'troubled' by the overly lenient plea agreement, stating: 'The fact that [Mr. Littlejohn] is facing one felony count, I have no words for'," Jordan wrote.
Jordan said in 2024, the Justice Department failed to produce any substantive or nonpublic information to the Judiciary Committee.
"It is now clear that Mr. Littlejohn's conduct violated the privacy of hundreds of thousands of American taxpayers, it remains unclear why the Biden-Harris Justice Department chose to allow him to plead guilty to only a single felony count," Jordan wrote. "It appears that the Biden-Harris Justice Department authorized a plea agreement in this case that did not ensure full accountability for criminal conduct that was unprecedented in its scope and scale."
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