WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump is suing the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department for $10 billion, accusing the federal agencies of failing to prevent his tax information from leaking to the press during his first administration.

Trump filed the suit in Florida federal courts with his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump organization listed as plaintiffs.

The lawsuit alleges the leak of 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."

The leak was traced back to former IRS contractor Charles Edward Littlejohn, who worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense and national security tech firm. He was sentenced to five years in prison in 2024 after pleading guilty to disclosing the information to news outlets like The New York Times and ProPublica between 2018 and 2020.

The Times reported in 2020 that Trump did not pay federal income tax for many years before 2020, and ProPublica in 2021 published a series about discrepancies in Trump's records. In 2022, Democrats in Congress released six years of Trump's returns.

Trump's suit states that Littlejohn’s disclosures to the news organizations “caused reputational and financial harm to Plaintiffs and adversely impacted President Trump’s support among voters in the 2020 presidential election.”

Littlejohn stole tax records of other mega-billionaires, including Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

Earlier this week, the Treasury Department cut ties with Booz Allen Hamilton and canceled 31 contracts worth $4.8 million annually and $21 million in total obligations.

“President Trump has entrusted his cabinet to root out waste, fraud, and abuse, and canceling these contracts is an essential step to increasing Americans’ trust in government,” Secretary Scott Bessent said.

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Editor's note: The Associated Press contributed to this article.