Trump Lawyers Seek Settlement in $10B Tax Leak Suit

Lawyers for President Donald Trump have entered discussions with the Internal Revenue Service to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit he filed against the agency and the Treasury Department over the unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns. The talks were disclosed in a federal court filing on Friday, in which Trump's legal team requested a 90-day extension of key deadlines to facilitate settlement negotiations.

The lawsuit, filed in January in a Florida federal court, names Trump, his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization as plaintiffs. It accuses the IRS and Treasury of failing to prevent the leak of confidential tax information by a former contractor, Charles Edward Littlejohn, between 2018 and 2020. Littlejohn, who worked for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, pleaded guilty to the unauthorized disclosures and was sentenced in May 2024 to five years in federal prison. The leaks involved tax records shared with news organizations, including reports published by The New York Times in 2020 that detailed Trump's federal income tax payments of $750 for 2017, the year he took office, and zero dollars in several other years due to reported business...