Ex-IRS contractor who leaked Trump, Griffin tax data gets five years in prison

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The sentence "sends a strong message that those who violate laws intended to protect sensitive tax information will face significant punishment," Nicole M. Argentieri, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, said in a statement.
57% : He first gave the tax data to the Times in August 2019, helping reporters analyze the data and then stole additional tax records, records show.
48% : He also admitted taking tax information about thousands of other wealthy Americans, including Jeff Bezos, that he passed to ProPublica.
35% : "Littlejohn was alarmed when Trump took office in 2017 and refused to make his tax records public, they wrote.
17% : In September 2020 -- weeks before Trump lost the election to Joe Biden -- the Times the first of several stories, revealing the former president paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017, and nothing in 10 of the previous 15 years.

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