President Donald Trump, along with his two eldest sons and the Trump Organization, have filed a lawsuit against the IRS and the U.S. Department of the Treasury seeking at least $10 billion in damages for the unauthorized disclosure of their confidential tax returns, a move that has drawn skepticism from former government officials.
The January 29 complaint comes in the wake of the criminal conviction of former IRS contractor Charles Littlejohn, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for leaking the tax data of thousands of Americans to news organizations.
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