(03-15-2017 03:47 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(03-15-2017 03:38 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(03-15-2017 03:31 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(03-15-2017 08:42 AM)CardFan1 Wrote:  Maddog ought to go to jail along with the leaker as a co -conspitror of wasting everyones time of a very bad SNL episode clone.

They're so stupid that they actually broke the law on NATIONAL TELEVISION! The proof is in the pudding or is that Putin? LOL Big time.

What law? Chapter and verse please. Thanks.

26 U.S. Code § 7213

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/7213

Quote:(3) Other persons

It shall be unlawful for any person to whom any return or return information (as defined in section 6103(b)) is disclosed in a manner unauthorized by this title thereafter willfully to print or publish in any manner not provided by law any such return or return information. Any violation of this paragraph shall be a felony punishable by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(4) Solicitation

It shall be unlawful for any person willfully to offer any item of material value in exchange for any return or return information (as defined in section 6103(b)) and to receive as a result of such solicitation any such return or return information. Any violation of this paragraph shall be a felony punishable by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

Quote:Under traditional criminal law principles, both Sheehan and Vopper knowingly received “stolen” property. Nonetheless, because the information in both cases involved matters of public concern, both Sheehan and Vopper were protected by the First Amendment. As the Court explained in Bartnicki, when a journalist receives information “from a source who has obtained it unlawfully,” the journalist may not be punished for the receipt or publication of the information, “absent a need . . . of the highest order.”