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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Between around August 2019 and October 2019, Littlejohn provided the news outlet with the tax return information associated with Trump.
54% : Littlejohn accessed tax returns associated with Trump on an IRS database "after using broad search parameters designed to conceal the true purpose of his queries," according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
54% : " In July and August 2020, prosecutors said Littlejohn separately stole tax return information for thousands of the nation's wealthiest people, again evading IRS detection.
54% : "By using his role as a government contractor to gain access to private tax information, steal that information, and disclose it publicly, Charles Littlejohn broke federal law and betrayed the public's trust," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement last October.
53% : Charles Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty in October to disclosing tax return information without authorization.
43% : Littlejohn, while working at the IRS as a contractor, stole tax return information associated with Trump and others.
42% : " "The Times's reporting on this topic played an important role in helping the public understand the financial ties and tax strategies of a sitting president - information that has long been seen as central to the knowledge that voters should have about the leader of our government and the candidates for that high office.
39% : A former IRS contractor who leaked former President Donald Trump's tax returns along with tax information for some of the nation's wealthiest people was sentenced Monday to five years in prison.
27% : Littlejohn then stole additional tax return information related to Trump and provided it to the same news organization, which is not named in the indictment.

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