"President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion, as he accuses the federal agencies of a failure to prevent a leak of the president's tax information to news outlets between 2018 and 2020. The suit, filed in a Florida federal court Thursday, includes the president's sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. and the Trump organization as plaintiffs."
"In 2024, former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington, D.C. who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense and national security tech firm was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to leaking tax information about Trump and others to news outlets. Littlejohn, known as Chaz, gave data to The New York Times and ProPublica between 2018 and 2020 in leaks that appeared to be "unparalleled in the IRS's history," prosecutors said."
"The disclosure violated IRS Code 6103, one of the strictest confidentiality laws in federal statute. The Times reported in 2020 that Trump did not pay federal income tax for many years prior to 2020, and ProPublica in 2021 published a series about discrepancies in Trump's records. Six years of Trump's returns were later released by the then-Democratically controlled House Ways and Means Committee."
President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and Treasury Department alleging failure to prevent leaks of his and the Trump Organization's tax information between 2018 and 2020. The suit names Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and the Trump Organization as plaintiffs and claims the disclosures caused reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, and reduced voter support in 2020. Former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking data to The New York Times and ProPublica. The disclosures violated IRS Code 6103 and included returns of other billionaires; six years of returns were later released by the House Ways and Means Committee.
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