IRS consultant Charles Littlejohn, who faces up to five years in prison, didn't use a particularly elaborate scheme to obtain thousands of confidential returns from wealthy people.
IRS consultant Charles Littlejohn, who faces up to five years in prison, didn’t use a particularly elaborate scheme to obtain thousands of confidential returns from wealthy people.
Littlejohn uploaded the data to a private website, rather than using a flash drive or a conventional remote-storage website, “to avoid IRS protocols designed to detect and prevent large downloads or uploads from IRS devices or systems.” The filings shed new light on the question of how Littlejohn, who has pled guilty to stealing and disclosing the data, was able to pull off one of the biggest security breaches in IRS history.
The government does not describe a motive or indicate how Littlejohn was discovered. He faces up to five years in prison, though his plea agreement suggests he will likely get between eight and 14 months in prison and face a fine of up to $40,000.
He gave the newspaper the filings sometime between August 2019 and October 2019. Littlejohn later went back in early 2020 and stole additional tax information about Trump, which he also turned over to the Times.
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