Read our Privacy noticePresident Donald Trump and several of his family members sued the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion, alleging the government agencies failed to prevent his tax returns from being leaked. The civil complaint argues that the IRS and Treasury Department fell short in their obligation to stop the leak of the president’s tax records by Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor, in 2019 and 2020. Littlejohn pleaded guilty in 2023 to leaking the president’s tax records to The New York Times, and he was sentenced to five years in prison the following year. Spokespeople for the Treasury Department and the IRS did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Independent. Trump's tax returns have long drawn intense scrutiny due to his unprecedented refusal to release them during his first term, defying long-standing norms.