Treasury Severs Ties With Federal Consulting Giant Over Trump Tax Return Leak

The Treasury Department announced Monday that it is canceling all contracts with consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, citing the firm’s link to a massive data breach that led to the leak of President Donald Trump’s tax returns to the press.

Treasury has 31 separate contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton that will be cancelled, totaling roughly $4.8 million in annual spending and $21 million in overall obligations. Between 2018 and 2020, Booz Allen Hamilton employee Charles Edward Littlejohn stole and leaked the confidential tax returns and return information of hundreds of thousands of taxpayers, including Trump.

“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,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a statement. “Booz Allen failed to implement adequate safeguards to protect sensitive data, including the confidential taxpayer information it had access to through its contracts with the Internal Revenue Service.”

Littlejohn allegedly applied to work as an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractor with the hope of accessing and disclosing Trump’s tax returns. He later admitted to leaking the president’s tax records to The New York Times, as well as those of other wealthy individuals, including Elon Musk, to other outlets.

Littlejohn pleaded guilty to felony charges for unlawfully disclosing confidential tax information and was