The Treasury Department said Monday it was canceling millions of dollars of contacts with Booz Allen Hamilton, blaming the major consulting firm for its role in the leak of secret tax information about President Trump and other wealthy Americans.
Secretary Scott Bessent said the company had shown it played too loose with safeguarding the information, to the point that Charles Littlejohn, a Booz Allen employee, was able to exfiltrate tax information of Mr. Trump and the other wealthy Americans and to leak it to news reporters.
“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,” he said.
Booz Allen has 31 separate contracts, worth $4.8 million in annual spending, with the department.
Littlejohn, who is serving a federal prison sentence in connection with stealing the information, was a contractor with Booz Allen, working on its contract with the IRS. He was given an IRS office, email account and laptop — which gave him all the access he needed to get the tax information.
He stole Mr. Trump’s information and gave it to The New York Times. He then stole information of thousands of wealthy Americans and gave that to ProPublica.
The Washington Times has reached out to Booz Hamilton for this story.
