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House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is off on another investigation after the Department of Justice and a judge agreed on a sentence for an IRS contractor convicted of leaking Donald Trump’s taxes to the New York Times. At issue for the investigation-happy Jordan was the 5 years handed to Charles Littlejohn which, as MSNBC’s Steve Benen notes, is the statutory maximum for a federal prison. On Thursday the conservative Washington Times reported that Jordan issued a letter accusing, “The Department’s decision to pursue just one charge for ‘thousands’ of separate criminal acts is highly conce…

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