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Attorney General Garland vows billionaire tax leak to ProPublica will be 'top of my list' to investigate - CNBC
Jun 09, 2021 1 min, 0 secs

Attorney General Merrick Garland told lawmakers Wednesday that investigating the source of a massive leak of taxpayer information behind an article by investigative news outlet ProPublica will be one of his top priorities.

The former federal judge said that at the moment he knew nothing more than what he learned from reading the sprawling article, which revealed that in some recent years billionaires such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and businessmen Michael Bloomberg, Carl Icahn and George Soros paid no federal income taxes.

The ProPublica article, expected to be the first in a series, did not reveal how the journalists obtained the tax records, and the outlet did not respond to a request for comment.

"He said that their inspectors were working on it, and I'm sure that that means it will be referred to the Justice Department," Garland said.

On Saturday, the department said that "in a change to its longstanding practice" it will refrain from seizing records from reporters in leak investigations.

Also Wednesday, Garland defended the Justice Department against criticisms from the left that it was not moving fast enough to distance itself from the Trump administration.

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