Private investigator accused of seeking Trumps tax records though financial aid website
Source: Bangor Daily News
A Louisiana private investigator tried to exploit a loophole in an online student financial aid tool to illegally obtain Donald Trump’s tax records during last year’s presidential campaign, federal prosecutors allege in court records.
Jordan Hamlett, 31, was unsuccessful in his attempts to get Trump’s tax information and has been charged with false impersonation of a Social Security number.
Hamlett allegedly tried to get Trump’s tax records on Sept. 13, 2016, according to records filed in U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Louisiana — two months before the Republican businessman won the presidency in a stunning upset. Trump refused to share his tax returns during the campaign, contrary to the standard practice of presidents and major-party presidential nominees for the past four decades, and he has shown no sign he intends to release them as president.
The website Hamlett allegedly attempted to exploit allowed students filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid — the form colleges and the government use to determine grants and loans — to upload tax information by submitting a Social Security number and other data.
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