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First on Fox: A man serving in prison for the president who has disclosed Donald TrumpConfidential tax files and thousands of others recently affirmed its right to the fifth amendment to the Chamber’s judicial committee and refused to testify to the panel, Fox News Digital learned.
A public defender wrote at Directed by the Republicans Committee on behalf of Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS entrepreneur serving a five -year sentence in Illinois, that because Littlejohn appealed his sentence, he did not have to testify before the congress.
“The testimony you are looking for with Mr. Littlejohn directly implies his privilege of the fifth amendment against self-incrimination,” wrote the public defender on Saturday. “Mr. Littlejohn validly exercises this constitutional right to refuse to testify.”
Former IRS entrepreneur Charles Littlejohn, on the left, was seen on Monday after a judge sentenced him to five years in prison for disclosing the income statements by former President Donald Trump and other wealthy. (Fox News | SOMODEVILLA / GETTY Images)
The Chamber Committee led by Les Républicains is investigating a advocacy agreement that Littlejohn concluded with the Biden administration Ministry of Justice (DOJ) in 2023. Littlejohn admitted to prosecutors as part of the plea negotiation that he had carried out a program developed to access and disclose Trump’s tax information and the income declarations of thousands of the richest American citizens in the New York Times and Propublica.
Among the targets were Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett.
In return, Littlejohn was charged and pleaded guilty to a single unauthorized disclosure chief of income statements and received the maximum sentence of 60 months for the accusation.
At the time, the American district judge Ana Reyes, appointed from former president Joe Bidenquestioned the wisdom of the Doj’s decision to charge Littlejohn of a single accusation when thousands of people had been affected by her actions, saying that she was “perplexed” and “troubled” by the advocacy agreement.
“The fact that he faces a count for crime, I have no words,” said Reyes during his condemnation hearing.
Former IRS entrepreneur, Charles Littlejohn, was seen on Monday after a judge sentenced him to five years in prison for disclosing the income statements by former President Donald Trump and other wealthy. (Fox News)
Many Republicans have also piled up on the Biden DOJ for the perceived leniency of the advocacy agreement. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) said during the conviction that this “made no sense” and “should be called the plea agreement of the century”.
The president of the House Ways and Means Committee, Jason Smith (R-MO), criticized prosecutors for failing “to dissuade future IRS employees from fleeing sensitive taxpayers”.
Chairman of the Chamber’s Judicial Committee Jim Jordan (R-OH) wrote a letter to the Trump administration on Tuesday, obtained by Fox News Digital, requesting all communications and other files concerning the proceedings of Littlejohn and accusing the DOJ of the previous administration of not providing “substantive” information.
Jordan said he learned from the IRS that Littlejohn’s violation was much larger than what had been established in court.
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“After President Trump took office, the IRS revealed to the committee that more than 405,000 taxpayers were victims of Mr. Littlejohn leaks and that ’89 [percent] taxpayers [we]In commercial entities, “” Jordan wrote. “Although it is now clear that Mr. Littlejohn’s conduct has violated the private life of hundreds of thousands of American taxpayers, we do not know why the Biden-Harris Ministry of Justice chose to allow him to plead guilty to a single criminal count.”
An MJ spokesperson refused to comment on Jordan’s request.
