The suit, filed in a Florida federal court on Thursday, also saw Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr and the Trump organisation as plaintiffs
US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump at a screening of the documentary film ’Melania’ at The Kennedy Centre in Washington DC, on Thursday. Pic/Getty Images
President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion for failure to prevent a leak of his tax information to news outlets. The suit, filed in a Florida federal court on Thursday, also saw Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr and the Trump organisation as plaintiffs.
In 2024, former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn of Washington DC — who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defence 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 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.
Trump’s suit states that Littlejohn’s disclosures to the news organisations “caused reputational and financial harm to Plaintiffs and adversely impacted President Trump’s support among voters in the 2020 presidential election.”
Littlejohn, who worked for the firm, has been charged and imprisoned for leaking tax information to news outlets about thousands of the country’s wealthiest people, including the president.
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