A federal judge sentenced a man to the maximum possible sentence of five years in prison Monday for the leak of tax documents of then-President Donald Trump and more than a thousand other people, including Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott and billionaires Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Elon Musk.
Scott spoke as a victim at the sentencing hearing of Charles Littlejohn, a former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service who had pleaded guilty in October to one charge of disclosing tax return information without authorization.
Scott advocated the maximum prison sentence and told Judge Ana C. Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that he and his family had to live with the knowledge that their confidential information had been spread and they didn’t know how or when the information might be used or published.
