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A federal appeals court upheld a lower court order preventing the IRS from sharing massive amounts of taxpayer data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
September 10 -
The Justice Department is pushing back on requests for information about how it resolved the president's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.
August 31 -
Deloitte settled allegations it violated the False Claims Act by failing to comply with anti-discrimination requirements in its federal contracts.
August 27 -
The confirmation followed a weeks-long saga over a controversial personal settlement Blanche authorized for Trump over leaks of his tax information years ago.
August 10 -
If the DOJ can revise immunity language in one of the highest-profile tax settlements in memory, then no closing agreement your client is holding is immune.
August 7
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Blanche walked back and clarified key elements of the department's arrangements to resolve Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.
August 4 -
The fund could have paid $1.8 billion to President Trump's allies, and the acting AG clarified the scope of the president's sweeping immunity deal with the IRS.
August 3 -
The president's desire to avoid criminal prosecutions and tax audits has become the biggest impediment to getting his own attorney general pick confirmed.
July 31 -
Cornyn and another GOP holdout, Senator Thom Tillis, want written changes to alter Trump's settlement with the IRS over leaks of his tax information in 2019.
July 29 -
Blanche said he didn't know who at the Justice Department wrote the language providing immunity from tax audits, though he signed the agreement approving it.
July 16 -
Tax experts and former Internal Revenue Service officials denounced the deal to immunize President Trump, his family and his businesses from tax audits.
June 23 -
The fund was part of a settlement to resolve President Trump's $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold the IRS liable for a leak of his tax information.
June 22 -
The Department of Justice will still provide immunity from any probes into the president's past tax filings under a deal agreed to last month.
June 3 -
Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee called on chairman Mike Crapo to launch a bipartisan probe into the Justice Department's new weaponization fund.
May 26 -
The lawsuit follows the announcement of the nearly $1.8 billion fund as part of an agreement to end Trump's unprecedented $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS.
May 21 -
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche wouldn't rule out the possibility that rioters who attacked police could receive payments from a $1.8 billion taxpayer fund.
May 20 -
The Internal Revenue Service agreed not to continue any legal claims or investigations of the president's past tax returns, adding to a controversial settlement.
May 19 -
The Justice Department's order delivers meaningful tax relief to the medical cannabis industry and signals a serious federal effort to align with state laws.
April 24
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President Trump has been given a deadline of next week to respond to claims that his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS poses a glaring conflict of interest.
February 19 -
Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler reached settlements with the IRS and the Justice Department, and their lawsuit against Biden's attorney was dismissed by a judge.
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