"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. The filing alleges that the leak of Trump and the Trump Organization's confidential tax records caused "reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, unfairly tarnished their business reputations, portrayed them in a false light, and negatively affected President Trump, and the other Plaintiffs' public standing.""
"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. Trump's suit states that Littlejohn's disclosures to the news organizations "caused reputational and financial harm to Plaintiffs and adversely impacted President Trump's support among voters in the 2020 presidential election." Littlejohn stole tax records of other mega-billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk."
President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and the U.S. Treasury, naming Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and the Trump Organization as co-plaintiffs. The complaint alleges that confidential tax records were leaked to news outlets between 2018 and 2020, causing reputational and financial harm, public embarrassment, and damage to political support. Former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn pleaded guilty and received a five-year prison sentence for leaking tax data to The New York Times and ProPublica. Prosecutors described the disclosures as unparalleled in IRS history and a violation of IRS Code 6103. The leaked records included Trump's returns and those of other billionaires.
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