Amount
$10 Billion
Practice Area
Privacy / Tax Records
Filed
2026
Counsel
Alejandro Brito, Ian Michael Corp
Brito PLLC attorneys Alejandro Brito and Ian Michael Corp filed a $10 billion suit against the IRS and U.S. Treasury after contractor Charles Littlejohn unlawfully accessed and leaked President Trump's confidential tax returns to The New York Times and ProPublica. Littlejohn pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in federal prison.
Unlike many defamation cases, this suit targets the federal government itself for the unlawful disclosure of protected tax records. Littlejohn's criminal conviction and five-year sentence establishes the unlawful nature of the disclosure as a matter of record — strengthening the civil damages claim substantially. The $10 billion figure reflects the scope of reputational and electoral harm alleged from years of coverage based on illegally obtained financial records.
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Docket
1:26-cv-20609
Court
U.S. District Court, S.D. Florida
Status
ACTIVE