Via indefatigable contributor and Reader Michael L. comes this welcome news:
The former Internal Revenue Service contractor who leaked the tax records of former President Donald Trump to The New York Times as well as the tax records of billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to ProPublica was sentenced Monday to five years in prison.
Somewhat harsh for this evil little weasel, you say? I don’ theenk so, Speedy:
Prosecutors said that Littlejohn “weaponized his access to unmasked taxpayer data to further his own personal, political agenda, believing that he was above the law.”
The only way I’d feel better about this would be if the sentence contained the phrase “weekly whippings while incarcerated”, but no doubt someone’s going to have a problem with this.
And I’m not especially pissed off at whose data was leaked; I’d feel equally angry if it was my data (not that it’s in any way as momentous as the tax data of the above Ryche Pharttes).
By the way, I’m getting really sick of the word “weaponized”, as in this case where “abused” would have served equally well or better. It’s a betrayal of trust, not trying to take a life, FFS.
Maybe he’ll learn to luh the jailhouse radiator hose.
Nah, five years really means less than three in jail. Put him in there for a solid decade. Teach those other bureaucrat rats a lesson. They’re very slow learners.
JQ
He should have been given 5-yrs for each and every doc he leaked – I understand it was dozens.
His last gasp should be in that prison.
Whereas if you or I had leaked Xhou Bhi-Dehn’s info, they’d toss us in a three-foot by three-foot by three-foot “room” with a hole in the floor and no windows, and throw away the key.