Jesse Eisinger
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287 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 29 May
Jesse Eisinger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's a guy named Charles Little John, and he had actually leaked the—
Trump tax returns to the New York Times and provided them with the information to write their blockbuster story on Trump's tax avoidance strategies.
Huge, important public service.
And then he realized that the problem of tax avoidance was much bigger than one person and wanted to expose the tax avoidance strategies of Trump.
The wealthiest among us, and that's when he came to us.
He had seen – Paul and I had done a series of stories.
I like to think of it as the least read, most boring investigative series of all time, which was about the gutting of the IRS.
Yeah.
But one person who was very important actually read that, which was Charles Littlejohn.
And he, unbeknownst to us, we didn't know his identity, as you just said, he gave us the tax returns.
And then that actually got him caught.
If he had just leaked the tax returns of Trump, he wouldn't have gotten caught.
He would have gotten away with it.
Was it just because now he had access to more – it was easier to cross-reference?
Yeah, it was much easier to figure out where it came from.
And one person's tax returns could have come from so many different areas that the IRS didn't even occur to them to kind of do a search for that kind of query.
But the massive queries that little John had done just stuck out.
They're very obvious.
Yeah.
And so the IRS figured it out.
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