"A statement from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent referenced Charles Littlejohn, a onetime Booz employee who is now serving a five-year prison term for stealing tax return information on Trump and other wealthy Americans while contracting at the IRS. "President Trump has entrusted his cabinet to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, and canceling these contracts is an essential step to increasing Americans' trust in government," Bessent said in the statement. "Booz Allen failed to implement adequate safeguards to protect sensitive data, including the confidential taxpayer information it had access to through its contracts with the Internal Revenue Service.""
"CNN's headline actually reads, "Treasury cancels $21 million in Booz Allen contracts, blaming Trump tax return leak," but Bessent's statement never mentions the President or the fact that his data had been leaked in the incident. CNN seems to be leaping to the suspicion or connecting dots that might lead cynical people to consider that the cancellation is revenge for the fact that the President's data had been leaked at the time."
"Having a data breach or leak that reveals inadequate security against insider wrongdoing where the contractor's employee leaked data on approximately 400,000 taxpayers might be justification enough for not renewing or canceling the contract at that time. But Littlejohn pleaded guilty in 2023 and was sentenced two years ago to five years in prison for his crime. What has Booz Allen done since that incident to prevent future incidents of that kind?"
The Treasury Department cut ties with Booz Allen Hamilton and canceled $21 million in federal contracts after a former Booz employee, Charles Littlejohn, stole tax return information while contracting at the IRS. Littlejohn is serving a five-year prison term for stealing tax return information on President Donald Trump and other wealthy Americans. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said canceling the contracts was essential to increasing Americans' trust and accused Booz Allen of failing to implement adequate safeguards to protect sensitive taxpayer data. Booz Allen disputed some of Bessent's claims. Questions remain about whether the cancellation is retaliatory and what corrective measures Booz Allen implemented since the breach.
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