The Epoch Times Article RatingEx-IRS Contractor Who Leaked Trump's Tax Returns Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
- Bias Rating
64% Medium Conservative
- Reliability
75% ReliableGood
- Policy Leaning
42% Medium Conservative
- Politician Portrayal
-58% Negative
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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-13% Negative
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56% : Judge Reyes said she would go beyond sentencing guidelines, adding that his offense covered the personal information and tax information of a substantial number of individuals, as well as risking non-monetary harm.53% : She later noted that Mr. Littlejohn purposefully sought his job at least in part to leak tax information.
50% : Similarly, Mr. Littlejohn's attorney said he was concerned about "systemic inequality" and influenced by Emmanuel Saez's book "Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay.""A free press and public engagement with the media are critical to any healthy democracy, but stealing and leaking private, personal tax information strips individuals of the legal protection of their most sensitive data ...
43% : "After President Trump took office in 2017, Mr. Littlejohn sought to return to work for Booz Allen "with the intention of accessing and disclosing" the tax returns of the president, whom he viewed as "dangerous and a threat to democracy," according to prosecutors.
42% : A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was sentenced to five years in prison on Jan. 29 for leaking tax information associated with thousands of individuals, including former President Donald Trump.Charles Littlejohn, 38, pleaded guilty in October to one count of unauthorized disclosure of tax returns and return information.
38% : She added that in targeting President Trump, Mr. Littlejohn targeted the office of president.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.