Treasury cancels all Booz Allen contracts

The Treasury Department has moved to cancel all contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton, two years after a former company employee pled guilty to leaking President Trump's confidential tax information without authorization.

Treasury currently has 31 contracts with Booz Allen that average roughly $4.8 million in annual spending and have totaled $21 million in obligations.

In a statement issued Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cited inadequate data protection safeguards as driving the decision and specifically the disclosure of sensitive taxpayer information accessed through IRS contracts.

Between 2018 and 2020, then-Booz Allen employee Charles Edward Littlejohn obtained and leaked confidential tax returns and related information of approximately 406,000 individuals and businesses, including Trump's.

In October 2023, Littlejohn pled guilty to one count of unauthorized disclosures of income tax returns. As part of his plea agreement, Littlejohn admitted he leaked Trump’s tax records to the New York Times and records about wealthy individuals to ProPublica.

Littlejohn was later sentenced to the maximum penalty of 5 years in prison.

Washington Technology has reached out to Booz Allen for comment.

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