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The Justice Department on Monday announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund to compensate President Donald Trump\u2019s allies who claim they were unfairly targeted by the previous administration.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s an unprecedented move that would allow the president\u2019s administration to pay his supporters from a government agency he controls with taxpayer money.<\/p>\n

Its creation comes as Trump dropped his $10 billion lawsuit alleging that the Internal Revenue Service failed to protect Trump and the Trump Organization from an unauthorized leak of their tax returns.<\/p>\n

Trump himself will not receive any payments, but will receive a formal apology, the Justice Department said.<\/p>\n

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT | <\/b>Trump sues IRS and Treasury for $10B over leaked tax info<\/b><\/p>\n

In January, Trump, along with his sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, sued the IRS and Treasury Department for at least $10 billion. The lawsuit accuses the IRS of an unauthorized leak of their tax returns from his first presidency.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s lawsuit alleges that the IRS failed to protect confidential tax information and the tax information of the Trump Organization. Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor, was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking Trump\u2019s tax records, along with the records of thousands of others.<\/p>\n

Trump sued the IRS in his capacity as a citizen, not as the president.<\/p>\n

Soon after Trump brought the lawsuit, the federal judge presiding over the case in Florida, district Judge Kathleen Williams, expressed skepticism that it was the kind of legitimate legal dispute that belonged in her courthouse.<\/p>\n

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She asked a group of outside lawyers to brief her on the question. They too raised concerns about the propriety of a president seeking monetary damages for personal reasons against a government agency within his executive branch.<\/p>\n

FROM THE ARCHIVES | <\/b>President Trump Petitions Supreme Court To Keep Tax Returns Private<\/b><\/p>\n

Not the first deal<\/b><\/p>\n

The deal follows several others reached in lawsuits filed by allies of Trump.<\/p>\n

In March, the department settled a lawsuit with Michael Flynn. Flynn sued the government for $50 million, accusing the FBI of trying to entrap him in the first few days of the Trump administration. Flynn was awarded over $1 million in the settlement.<\/p>\n

Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser, also settled a lawsuit with the Trump administration in April. Page was suing the Justice Department and FBI over flawed government surveillance he faced due to Russian contacts in 2016.<\/p>\n

They wrote that, if Trump sought to voluntarily submit the case to facilitate such a settlement, the court should scrutinize that maneuver under a legal rule that would allow the court to sanction the lawyers involved.<\/p>\n

Minutes after Trump\u2019s legal team notified the court he\u2019s dropping the case on Monday, nearly 100 House Democrats submitted a \u201cfriend-of-the-court\u201d brief accusing Trump of \u201cblatant self-dealing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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