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By Samantha Delouya, CNN

(CNN) — President Donald Trump is suing the US Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department for at least $10 billion, accusing the agency of an unauthorized leak of his tax returns during his first administration.

The suit was filed on Thursday in federal court in Florida. Trump, who filed the suit alongside his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, is suing the IRS and Treasury personally, not in his official capacity as president.

The lawsuit alleged that the government failed to protect Trump and the Trump Organization’s confidential tax information, which was leaked to the press by Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor.

Littlejohn, who worked as a government contractor at Booz Allen Hamilton, illegally obtained and disclosed Trump’s tax returns to publications like the New York Times and ProPublica, the suit alleged.

CNN has reached out to the IRS, the Treasury Department and Booz Allen Hamilton for comment.

In 2024, Littlejohn was sentenced to five years in prison for disclosing thousands of tax returns without authorization – from Trump and thousands of other wealthy individuals.

Trump’s legal team alleged that the IRS is legally responsible for Littlejohn’s actions because he had “staff-like access to tax returns and confidential tax return information” and exploited longstanding security failures that the IRS had been warned about but had gone uncorrected.

“The IRS wrongly allowed a rogue, politically-motivated employee to leak private and confidential information about President Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization to the New York Times, ProPublica and other left-wing news outlets, which was then illegally released to millions of people. President Trump continues to hold those who wrong America and Americans accountable,” Trump’s legal team said in a statement.

Earlier this week, the Treasury Department cut ties with Booz Allen Hamilton, Littlejohn’s former employer, saying it would cancel $21 million in federal contracts.

A statement from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the time referenced Littlejohn as the reason for the decision, saying: “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.”

During Trump’s first term, his refusal to release his tax returns, breaking a decades-long tradition for presidential candidates, became a focal point for critics. In 2022, six years of Trump’s tax returns were made public by the House Ways and Means Committee after a legal fight over their disclosure reached the Supreme Court.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

CNN’s Paula Reid contributed reporting.

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VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Carlos Reid of Thousand Oaks was arrested Monday on multiple sex crimes involving a minor and investigators believe more survivors may still come forward.

In April of 2023, detectives with the East County Sexual Assault Unit started an investigation into the 36-year-old Thousand Oaks resident after a man reported that when he was minor, Reid had befriended him in Agoura stated a press release from Ventura County Sheriff's Office Thursday.

Reid gained the boy's trust over time before allegedly convincing him to participate in recordings of sex acts in Thousand Oaks and then posting those recordings to online platforms for his financial benefit detailed the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

According to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, detectives executed a search warrant for multiple social media platforms connected to Reid that resulted in the discovery of additional evidence linking Reid to the suspected sex crimes and he was later arrested at a Newbury Park motel on Jan. 26 of this year on the following charges:

• PC 236.1(c)(1)-Causing a Minor to Engage in Commercial Sex Acts
• PC 311.4(b)-Using a Minor for Commercial Sex Acts
• PC 286(b)(1)-Sodomy of a Person Under the Age of 18
• PC 311.1(a)-Possession of Child Pornography with Intent to Distribute
• PC 311.11(a)– Possession of Child Pornography

Reid was booked into the Ventura Pre-Trial Detention Facility with bail set at $100,000 added the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Detectives believe that there may be additional survivors and encourage anyone with more information to contact the Sheriff's Thousand oaks Sexual Assault Unit Detective Thomas at 805-371-8309 or through email at [email protected].

You can also report information while remaining anonymous by calling the Ventura County Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A driver is dead and eight passengers were transported for medical treatment following a multi-vehicle crash on eastbound I-70 on Thursday morning, the Colorado State Patrol (CSP) says. Troopers say the crash involved a Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) snowplow, two passenger vehicles, and a sprinter van carrying a hockey team from California.

The Colorado State Patrol responded to the scene at milepost 218 in Clear Creek County around 8:53 a.m. 10 people were inside the sprinter van at the time of the collision, and CSP says the area of Loveland Pass is facing extreme weather conditions.

According to the CSP crash investigation, the CDOT plow truck was traveling westbound on I-70 when the driver lost control, traveling through the median and breaking the cable rail into the eastbound lanes. The plow then collided with a Toyota Tacoma that was traveling eastbound. The Toyota then went through the median and struck a BMW traveling westbound.

CDOT says the plow continued eastbound and struck the sprinter van that was traveling eastbound, which caused the van to go down an embankment and the plow to come to rest on the shoulder.

According to the CSP, of the eight people requiring medical attention, seven were transported by ground ambulance to a local hospital. An additional juvenile was flown by medical helicopter to an area trauma center with critical injuries. The remaining occupants of the sprinter van included one adult male passenger who refused medical transportation, as well as the driver who was declared dead at the scene.

None of the drivers or passengers of the other vehicles involved were transported to the hospital.

The crash resulted in a significant closure of eastbound Interstate 70. Officials initially closed the highway at milepost 216 at 9:10 a.m. before extending the closure back to milepost 205.

As of the last update from the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office at 12:15 p.m., westbound I-70 is fully open, but traffic is backed up approximately six miles to Silver Plume. I-70 East remains closed.

CSP says as of 3:40 p.m., the status of the seven passengers from the van is unknown; however, the CSP victims advocate team has been deployed to support all passengers.

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