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Leaker of Confidential of Tax Return Data Gets off Easy

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photo tar and feathering of tax collectors

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, a former IRS contract employee, Charles Littlejohn, unlawfully obtained the tax return data of over 1,000 high-income individuals and transmitted the documents to ProPublica and the New York Times. These publications subsequently released the confidential information, labeling it as a “vast treasure trove of tax data” to support their assertion that wealthy individuals are undertaxed.

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