A group of retired federal #judges is asking a #US district #court judge to reopen a lawsuit #Trump & his family pursued against the #IRS over leaked tax records, asking the court to investigate whether an unusual deal to end the case was an act of #fraud.

The retired judges’ filing marks the latest effort to block a deal that is expected to benefit Trump, his family & his allies.

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#Trump agreed to drop his lawsuit against the #IRS as part of an agreement establishing a $1.8 billion #DOJ fund to compensate those who, like him, claim they have been targets of a “weaponized” justice system.

DOJ said Trump will get an apology but no money. However, as part of the agreement, the IRS is barred from pursuing unpaid tax claims against Trump, members of his family or his businesses that arose before the deal was reached [which is estimated would cost him over $100 million].

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The 35 fmr #judges, appointed by presidents of both parties, wrote in their filing in federal court in Florida that the plaintiffs misled the court by not disclosing any #settlement in their notice to voluntarily dismiss the suit.

“The purported ‘settlement’ that the parties never placed before this Court raises profound questions about the parties’ candor toward the Court & manipulation of the judicial system, which threatens to undermine confidence in the administration of justice.”

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#Trump, his 2 eldest sons & his family business filed their suit against the #IRS in January, seeking as much as $10 billion in damages for the theft of their tax filings by a former agency consultant, who then leaked them to news organizations. US District Judge Kathleen Williams in South Florida, who had been overseeing the lawsuit, had questioned whether the parties were “sufficiently adverse,” because Trump was both a plaintiff & the president overseeing the agencies he was suing.

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After the plaintiffs asked to voluntarily “drop” the lawsuit, Williams dismissed & closed the case, noting that there was “no settlement of record.” Trump’s attorneys said in a court filing that they did not believe their deal with the #IRS required #judicial approval.

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The fmr #judges asked the #court to utilize a rule that would allow Williams to set aside the judgment & reopen the case for a “judicial review of the extraordinary — & historically unprecedented — circumstances presented by this litigation & by the collusive ‘settlement’ that invokes this litigation as the legal justification for its terms.”

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The former #judges argued that #Trump & the #FederalGovernment is improperly using the IRS lawsuit “to allow a ‘commission’ controlled by the President to dole out $1.776 billion in taxpayer dollars without constitutional or congressional authority” & to obtain “unlawful private benefits to the President & his family” by barring any #audits of prior #taxes.

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