Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
IRS contractor charged with leaking tax return info on Donald Trump
dailyrecord.co.ukA former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with leaking tax information to news outlets about thousands of the country’s wealthiest people.Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, of Washington DC, is accused of stealing the tax return information and giving it to two news outlets between 2018 and 2020, the Justice Department said in a statement.Littlejohn has declined to comment.Both organisations published numerous articles about the tax information, some of which dated back more than 15 years, charging documents state.
The outlets are not named in charging documents, but the description and time frame align with stories about former president Donald Trump’s tax returns in The New York Times and reporting about wealthy Americans’ taxes in the non-profit investigative journalism organisation ProPublica.
The 2020 New York Times report found Mr Trump paid 750 dollars (£615) in federal income tax the year he entered the White House and no income tax at all some years thanks to colossal losses.Six years of his returns were later released by the then-Democratically controlled House Ways and Means Committee.The newspaper declined to comment.ProPublica reported in 2021 on a trove of tax-return data about the wealthiest Americans.
It found the 25 richest people legally pay a smaller share of their income in taxes than many ordinary workers do.A spokesman for the outlet declined to comment on the charges, adding that ProPublica reporters have previously said they don’t know the identity of the source.
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