Trump Sues IRS for $10B Over Tax Leaks

The case has been assigned to Judge Kathleen Williams, who was appointed to the U.S. district court bench by former President Barack Obama.

In August, Williams issued a temporary injunction that halted further expansion of the federal government’s Florida immigrant detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” effectively shutting it down. A federal appeals court later blocked Williams’ ruling.

Littlejohn, 40, is serving a five-year prison sentence after having pleaded guilty in October 2023 to one count of disclosure of tax return information.

He admitted to leaking Trump’s tax records to The New York Times, and also admitted to leaking records about wealthy individuals to the investigative news outlet ProPublica.

While that quote does appear in ProPublica’s October 2019 report, it comes from Nancy Wallace, a finance and real estate professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

Wallace was one of a dozen real estate professionals interviewed by ProPublica who said they saw no clear explanation for “multiple inconsistencies in the documents,” according to the report.

It’s all but unheard of for a sitting president to sue their own administration, and the exorbitant damages figure being demanded raises various conflict-of-interest questions.

But Trump has reportedly made similar moves in the recent past: The New York Times reported in October that Trump sought $230 million from the Department of Justice as compensation for its past investigations into him.