Ex-IRS contractor gets five years in prison for leak of tax return information of Trump, rich people - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Nicole Argentieri, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, said the sentence "sends a strong message that those who violate laws intended to protect sensitive tax information will face significant punishment.
55% : The stories sparked calls for reform on taxes for the wealthy -- and calls for investigations into the leaking of tax information, which has specific legal protections.
46% : Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said he was among those whose tax information was leaked by Littlejohn.
42% : A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service who pleaded guilty to leaking tax information to news outlets about former President Donald Trump and thousands of the country's wealthiest people was sentenced to five years in prison Monday.
34% : The 2020 New York Times report found Trump, who had broken with tradition and refused to voluntarily release his tax returns, paid $750 in federal income tax the year he entered the White House and no income tax at all some years thanks to colossal losses.
27% : "Justice Department prosecutors did not name Trump or the outlets in the charges, but the description and time frame align with stories about Trump's tax returns in The New York Times and reporting about wealthy Americans' taxes in the nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica.

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