Trump sues IRS for $10B over tax record leaks

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President Donald Trump Thursday sued the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department, seeking at least $10 billion for “reputational and financial harm” from leaks of his tax information between 2018 and 2020. The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Miami. Charles Littlejohn, a government contractor, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2024 after admitting to leaking tax information from Trump and other wealthy Americans to The New York Times and ProPublica.

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