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Convicted criminal from Biden’s IRS leaked personal data of over 405,000 Americans, but libs melt about DOGE

February 26, 2025 | | Print Article

More than a year after a man was sentenced for leaking President Donald Trump’s tax records, the IRS revealed that tens of thousands of filers shared in the GOP leader’s fate.

Apoplectic leftists have been raging for weeks over every opportunity afforded to the Department of Government Efficiency to turn over rocks and expose waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government. Their outcry included expressed concern over Elon Musk gaining access to confidential taxpayer information at the same time the IRS disclosed that it was under Trump’s predecessor that more than 405,000 taxpayers had their records leaked to the media as well.

Having sought information about data security at the IRS in January, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) received a response dated Feb. 14 that revealed when former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn had served up Trump’s tax records to ProPublica and The New York Times, he’d also provided information on thousands of others.

“Relying on data analysis by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) and the IRS, the IRS mailed notifications to 405,427 taxpayers whose taxpayer information was inappropriately disclosed by Mr. Littlejohn,” detailed the letter that indicated, “Approximately 89% of the taxpayers are business entities.”

“The Obama IRS targeted conservatives. The Biden IRS leaked your data,” said Jordan on X as he shared the recently disclosed information from the IRS.

In Jan. 2024, Littlejohn had been sentenced to five years in prison, a $5,000 fine and 36 months of supervised release after pleading guilty to leaking a decade’s worth of the GOP leader’s tax records.

At the time of his sentencing, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes had contended, “The press tells us Democracy dies in darkness. It also dies in lawlessness.”

“There are numerous lawful means to bring things to light. Trump was under no obligation to expose his returns. People could vote for someone else. They could run against him,” she added while faulting him for “an attack on our constitutional democracy.”

Of note, as DOGE employees and the Trump administration endeavored to streamline America’s bloated bureaucracy, in May 2024, a spokesperson for the IRS had indicated that over 70,000 taxpayers had been affected by the leak and that they were being notified as such only for that number to prove a fraction of the extent of Littlejohn’s actions.

Meanwhile, the revelations about the number of people impacted by the leak come as Democratic lawmakers remained up in arms about DOGE  gaining access to computers at the IRS and other agencies, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) who’d had no qualms about joining Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) in leveraging the report from ProPublica.

In a letter to then-Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), they’d touted the report for demonstrating “how the nation’s wealthiest individuals are using a series of legal tax loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of income taxes” while calling for an investigation based on their ill-gotten “evidence.”

Jordan went on to call out the fearmongering from across the aisle and asserted, “Democrats wrongly claim that @elonmusk had access to your personal data. But have no problem with Biden’s IRS leaking the personal data of over 405,000 Americans.”

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