US President Donald Trump has filed a massive lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of the Treasury, demanding $10 billion in compensation. The reason for the lawsuit was the high-profile leak of his tax returns, which were illegally handed over to the media in 2019-2020. This was reported by Reuters, writes UNN.
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The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, accuses the agencies of failing to protect confidential taxpayer data and of "politically motivated" persecution.
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Trump's lawyers emphasize that the information leak was the result of a planned action by former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, who was previously sentenced to five years in prison. The document states that government agencies failed to implement proper security measures, which allowed the perpetrator to freely access the financial statements of the then-president and hand them over to The New York Times and ProPublica. The Trump administration considers this a gross violation of privacy and federal law.
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This legal step coincided with the Treasury Department's decision to terminate all contracts with the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, where Littlejohn worked. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that the cancellation of 31 contracts worth $21 million is a necessary step to restore confidence in government institutions. Currently, official representatives of the IRS have refused to comment on the details of the lawsuit, but analysts believe that this case could become one of the most expensive in the judicial history of citizens' relations with US tax authorities.