#Federal #law mandates strict protections of the identities of #taxpayers, including sharing data within the #FederalGovernment. Undocumented #immigrants have for years paid #taxes with assurances that doing so would not result in them being targeted by #immigration enforcement.

But in a controversial decision, #Treasury, which oversees the #IRS, in April 2025 agreed to provide #DHS with the names & addresses of individuals the #Trump admin believed to be in the country illegally.

The Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals with #immigration enforcement officials, acc/to 3 people familiar with the situation, appearing to breach a #legal #firewall intended to protect taxpayer data.
The erroneous disclosure was only recently discovered, the people said. The #IRS is working with officials from #Treasury, #DOJ & #DHS on the #Trump admin’s response.

#law #privacy #InfoSec #DOGE

This from the guy who repeatedly swore up & down he’d release his taxes

#Trump sues the #IRS & #Treasury Department for at least $10 billion, alleging an unauthorized #leak of his #TaxReturns in his first term

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/business/trump-sues-irs-for-usd10-billion

This from the guy who repeatedly swore up & down he’d release his taxes

#Trump sues the #IRS & #Treasury Department for at least $10 billion, alleging an unauthorized #leak of his #TaxReturns in his first term

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/business/trump-sues-irs-for-usd10-billion

WTF?

#Venezuela #oil proceeds are going into a private account in #Qatar that #US #Treasury cannot block. This can’t be legal.

Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.!'"

#geopolitics #law #criminal #Trump #sovereignty #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

WTF?

#Venezuela #oil proceeds are going into a private account in #Qatar that #US #Treasury cannot block. This can’t be legal.

Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.!'"

#geopolitics #law #criminal #Trump #sovereignty #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds

https://www.di.se/nyheter/di-avslojar-alecta-har-dumpat-amerikanska-statspapper/

#HackerNews #Swedish #Alecta #Alecta #Bonds #Finance #Investment #US #Treasury

In the 2018 email #Epstein wrote to Lawrence H. Summers, the fmr #Treasury secretary & president of #Harvard University where he called #Trump “borderline insane”, Epstein also made a reference to the lawyer #AlanDershowitz writing, “dersh, a few feet further from the border but not by much.” It was unclear what prompted this assessment from Epstein.

#criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp

#Epstein emails suggest a cozy friendship w/ #LarrySummers.

A series of exchanges between Jeffrey Epstein & Lawrence Summers, fmr #Treasury Secy & #Harvard president, suggest a far cozier & intimate relationship than previously known.

Emails between the 2 show the men bantering, sometimes multiple times a day.

The discussions, which occurred 2017–2019, largely focused on #Trump. But many of the emails focused on Summers’ conversations with a woman & how to handle relations with her.

#law

Yuck. Lawrence H. Summers [Larry], the fmr #Treasury secretary & president of #Harvard University email to #Epstein October 2017:

BTWs, so much for his directive “DO NOT REPEAT”

#Trump #criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp

In the 2018 email #Epstein wrote to Lawrence H. Summers, the fmr #Treasury secretary & president of #Harvard University where he called #Trump “borderline insane”, Epstein also made a reference to the lawyer #AlanDershowitz writing, “dersh, a few feet further from the border but not by much.” It was unclear what prompted this assessment from Epstein.

#criminal #law #rape #SexualAssault #SexTrafficking #felon47 #EpsteinFiles #CoverUp

It was not immediately clear if the release would include other disclosures…. But the emails from #Epstein to friends & associates were laced with unflattering, at times mocking, references to #Trump — including a description of Trump’s financial disclosures by an Epstein associate in 2019 as “100 pages of nonsense.”

A year before that, Epstein described Trump as “borderline insane” in an email exchange with Lawrence H. Summers, the fmr #Treasury secretary & #Harvard University president.

#law

With little public scrutiny, the #Trump admin is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies & wealthiest investors.

The #Treasury Dept & #IRS, through a series of new notices & proposed #regulations, are giving breaks to giant #PrivateEquity firms, #crypto companies, #foreign #RealEstate investors, #insurance providers & a variety of multinational #corporations.

#aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #law #USpol

How the #Trump Administration Is Giving Even More #TaxBreaks to the #Wealthy

The #Treasury Department & #IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big #corporations & the #ultrarich.

#law #SeparationOfPowers #aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/trump-administration-tax-breaks-wealthy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

With its various #tax relief provisions, the admin is now effectively adding hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses & investors. The #Treasury is empowered to write rules to help the #IRS carry out tax laws passed by #Congress. But the aggressive actions of the #Trump admin raise questions about whether it is exceeding its legal #authority.

#aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol #law

But the succession of notices the #Treasury & #IRS have issued beginning in summer means the #tax could bring in a fraction of that.

The breaks come in addition to the ~$4 trillion package of tax cuts that #Trump signed into #law in July. The #legislation, passed entirely by #Republicans, heavily benefits #corporations & the #ultrawealthy. It is projected to add trillions of dollars to the federal #deficit & came with steep cuts to #healthcare for the #elderly & #FoodStamps for the poorest.

With little public scrutiny, the #Trump admin is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies & wealthiest investors.

The #Treasury Dept & #IRS, through a series of new notices & proposed #regulations, are giving breaks to giant #PrivateEquity firms, #crypto companies, #foreign #RealEstate investors, #insurance providers & a variety of multinational #corporations.

#aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #law #USpol