The suit, filed in a Florida federal court on Thursday, includes the president’s sons Eric Trump, 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, DC – 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,’ secretly downloaded years of Trump’s tax records in 2018, later sharing them with reporters from the New York Times, according to court documents. The newspaper published a series of articles in 2020 revealing that Trump paid no income tax in 10 of the 15 years before he was elected president. Littlejohn later leaked tax information on ‘ultra-high net worth taxpayers’ to the investigative news outlet ProPublica.
