Judge questions DOJ leniency in Trump tax leaker case, gives five-year prison sentence

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A judge grilled a Department of Justice prosecutor on Monday over why the government charged Charles Littlejohn with just one count of unauthorized disclosure of taxes after Littlejohn admitted to leaking the private information of more than a thousand taxpayers to the media starting in 2019.

“The fact that he is facing one felony count, I have no words for,” Judge Ana Reyes said during Littlejohn’s sentencing hearing.

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