Former IRS, DOJ officials challenge Trump tax-audit immunity deal
What's new: An amicus brief argues the settlement could shield Trump, his family and affiliates from IRS scrutiny and other claims indefinitely.
A group of former Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department officials asked a federal judge to closely examine a settlement that gave President Donald Trump and his family broad protection from past tax audits. In a brief filed Monday, they called the audit-immunity provision unlawful and said it risked creating one tax system for Trump and another for everyone else. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams reopened the case last month after former federal judges challenged the agreement tied to Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over the leak of his tax records. The former officials also argued acting Attorney General Todd Blanche lacked authority to resolve the audits because the matters had not been referred to the Justice Department for prosecution.