IRS issues rare apology to billionaire Ken Griffin over tax records leak
NY Post
The Internal Revenue Service issued a rare apology to billionaire investor Ken Griffin over the leak of his tax returns to the press.
The apology follows the Monday settlement of a lawsuit the Citadel CEO filed against the IRS in 2022, alleging that an employee at the agency illegally leaked his tax returns to the news site ProPublica.
In 2021, ProPublica also published other billionaires’ tax information, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and real estate mogul Stephen Ross, in a 2021 series called “The Secret IRS Files.”
The IRS employee in question — government contractor Charles Littlejohn — also leaked the confidential tax returns of thousands of other wealthy Americans to the New York Times.
The former government contractor was sentenced to five years in prison in January after he pleaded guilty to unauthorized disclosure of tax returns.
“The IRS takes its responsibilities seriously and acknowledges that it failed to prevent Mr. Littlejohn’s criminal conduct and unlawful disclosure of Mr. Griffin’s confidential data,” the IRS said in a statement.
