Fox News Politics Newsletter: Ex-IRS Contractor Pleads Fifth in Trump Tax-Leak Probe

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Convicted Trump Tax Leaker Pleads the Fifth 

A antheral serving successful situation for leaking President Donald Trump’s and thousands of others’ confidential taxation records precocious asserted his Fifth Amendment close to the House Judiciary Committee and declined to attest earlier the panel, Fox News Digital has learned.

A nationalist defender wrote to the Republican-led committee connected behalf of Charles Littlejohn, a erstwhile Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor serving retired a five-year condemnation successful Illinois, that due to the fact that Littlejohn was appealing his sentence, helium did not person to attest earlier Congress.

"The grounds that you question from Mr. Littlejohn straight implicates his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination," the nationalist defender wrote connected Saturday. "Mr. Littlejohn validly exercises that Constitutional close successful declining to testify."…READ MORE

Former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn was seen Monday aft a justice sentenced him to 5 years successful situation for leaking the taxation returns of erstwhile President Donald Trump and different affluent people. (Fox News | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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