Five Years
This news from the Washington Post this morning:
"Ex-IRS contractor who leaked Trump’s tax returns sentenced to 5 years"
Five years in prison for daring to let the American people know that their sitting president was a common thief.
As to Trump himself, who, as this leaked information helped reveal, stole tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars from the IRS and the American people through a decades-long criminal scheme, well, no prison time for him, and so far he hasn't had to pay a penny in penalties for his theft.
Seems about right to me, I guess.
The judge in this case (unbelievably appointed by Joe Biden) had this to say:
"U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes said Littlejohn had “pulled off the biggest heist in IRS history”
He stole some documents. Bigger than the hundreds of millions that Trump and his family stole, I guess.
"Justice Department officials said Littlejohn’s disclosures were unprecedented in U.S. history."
Not unprecedented, I guess was the theft of a vast sum of money by a billionaire. That happens almost every day, I guess, so it isn't worth the judge's outrage.
"Littlejohn was deeply influenced by The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay, by economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman.
“The 2019 book set forth a systematic analysis of the U.S. tax system, concluding that for the first time in a century, billionaires almost universally paid lower effective tax rates than the average American taxpayer,” attorneys Lisa Manning and Noah Cherry said in a court filing."
Absolutely fine, but attempting to let the American people know about that? Off with his head. As to Mr. Saez and Mr. Zuchman, "how to make them pay?" Apparently there isn't any way to do that.
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