"The Treasury Department has moved to cancel all contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, two years after a former company employee pled guilty to leaking President Trump's confidential tax information without authorization. Treasury currently has 31 contracts with Booz Allen that average roughly $4.8 million in annual spending and have totaled $21 million in obligations. In a statement issued Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cited inadequate data protection safeguards as driving the decision and specifically the disclosure of sensitive taxpayer information accessed through IRS contracts."
"Between 2018 and 2020, then-Booz Allen employee Charles Edward Littlejohn obtained and leaked confidential tax returns and related information of approximately 406,000 individuals and businesses, including Trump's. In October 2023, Littlejohn pled guilty to one count of unauthorized disclosures of income tax returns. As part of his plea agreement, Littlejohn admitted he leaked Trump's tax records to the New York Times and records about wealthy individuals to ProPublica. Littlejohn was later sentenced to the maximum penalty of 5 years in prison."
The Treasury Department canceled all contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, citing inadequate data protection safeguards and disclosure of sensitive taxpayer information accessed through IRS contracts. Treasury held 31 contracts with Booz Allen that averaged roughly $4.8 million annually and totaled about $21 million in obligations. Between 2018 and 2020, then-Booz Allen employee Charles Edward Littlejohn obtained and leaked confidential tax returns and related information for approximately 406,000 individuals and businesses, including President Trump. In October 2023, Littlejohn pled guilty to one count of unauthorized disclosure of income tax returns and admitted leaking records to the New York Times and ProPublica. Littlejohn received a five-year prison sentence.
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