A consultant for the Internal Revenue Service has been charged with stealing the tax returns of former president Donald Trump and thousands of wealthy Americans and providing them to two news organizations that reported how little the super-rich pay in federal income taxes.

Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, faces one federal felony count of unauthorized disclosure of tax information, an offense punishable by up to five years in prison, the Justice Department announced Friday.

The dates in the charging papers align with the September 2020 publication of information from Trump’s tax records by The New York Times and the June 2021 report by ProPublica about the 400 top income-reporting Americans.