Jordan asks DOJ for records related to Biden admin's plea deal with Trump tax return leaker

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting documents from the Justice Department regarding the previous administration's plea deal with a man who leaked President Donald Trump's tax records. 

Former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor Charles Littlejohn pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax information, despite admitting to leaking tax information to the press of over 400,000 Americans. 

Littlejohn only pleaded guilty to leaking Trump's tax records and was sentenced to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $5,000 fine.

"The Committee on the Judiciary is continuing to investigate the unprecedented leak of protected taxpayer information by Charles Littlejohn," Jordan wrote. "Despite confessing to leaking 'thousands of individuals' and entities' tax returns' to ProPublica and the New York Times, the Biden-Harris Administration charged Mr. Littlejohn, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor, with only one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax information.

"Due to the Trump Administration's commitment to transparency and accountability, the Committee has learned that the scope of Mr. Littlejohn's leak was much broader than the Biden-Harris Administration had led the public to believe," he continued. "Accordingly, we respectfully renew our request for documents relating to Mr. Littlejohn's prosecution."

The letter comes the day before Littlejohn declined to testify in front of the House Judiciary Committee about the plea deal by asserting his Fifth Amendment right, according to Fox News. He is appealing his sentence.

Littlejohn is scheduled to be released from an Illinois prison on July 13, 2028.

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