Gavin Newsom’s sneaky tax return ‘release’ sparks outrage

Source: New York Post

Gavin Newsom’s sham “release” of his long-awaited tax returns has been slammed as an insult to transparency after the governor sneakily slipped the documents to handpicked news organizations. After promising to make four years of tax records public, The California Post can reveal that the governor only permitted a small group of favored media outlets to pore over 718 pages of documents while forbidding them from making copies. Newsom — who is currently facing a potential corruption investigation by the FBI along with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom — was not present to take any questions at the carefully managed private media event Thursday in Sacramento.