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[–] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 48 points 5 months ago (12 children)

It's such a laughably weak veil the rich pull over people's eyes I'm surprised more folks don't figure this out.

It's sickening to watch the rich people play their game with no care in the world whilst the working families are struggling just to feed their themselves.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

The guy in the US who leaked the tax records of the rich, including Donald Trump, just got convicted to 5 years in jail.

[–] juicy 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Judge Ana Reyes highlighted the gravity of the crime, saying multiple times that it amounted to an attack against the US and its legal foundation.

“What you did in attacking the sitting president of the United States was an attack on our constitutional democracy,” Reyes said. “We’re talking about someone who … pulled off the biggest heist in IRS history.”

The judge compared Littlejohn’s actions to those of the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack, noting that, “your actions were also a threat to our democracy.”

“It engenders the same fear that January 6 does,” Reyes added.

This is the kind of bullshit that was said about him.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Also wasn’t “the biggest heist in IRS history” some hackers who took advantage of their shitty website’s authentication mechanism to obtain 100,000 returns, and then fraudulently file 13,000 returns based on the ones they stole? Totaling something like $40m in stolen returns? Seems like that would be a bigger “heist” than exposing Trump’s shady tax shit.

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