Ex-tax office contractor jailed for leaking Trump´s financial...

Jan 29, 2024 View Original Article
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    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    30% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    34% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    80% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Sentiments

Overall Sentiment

-4% Negative

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"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."
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10% Conservative
"He gave tax information to two news outlets, The New York Times and ProPublica, between 2018 and 2020.US District Judge Ana Reyes said she handed down the highest possible sentence to deter anyone else who might feel an obligation to break the law.Littlejohn apologised to the people affected and said he expected to face consequences."
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-4% Liberal
"Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida said he was among those whose tax information was leaked by Littlejohn."
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-8% Liberal
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

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.
48% : He gave tax information to two news outlets, The New York Times and ProPublica, between 2018 and 2020.US District Judge Ana Reyes said she handed down the highest possible sentence to deter anyone else who might feel "an obligation to break the law".Littlejohn apologised to the people affected and said he expected to face consequences.
46% : Republican Senator Rick Scott of Florida said he was among those whose tax information was leaked by Littlejohn.
45% : The 2020 New York Times report found Mr Trump, who had broken with tradition and refused to voluntarily release his tax returns, paid 750 dollars (£591) in federal income tax the year he entered the White House and no income tax at all in some years thanks to colossal losses.
42% : A former contractor for the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 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 on Monday.

*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.

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