{"id":673147,"date":"2026-05-30T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673147\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T00:29:09","slug":"trump-ordered-to-address-fraud-claims-in-irs-case-that-led-to-slush-fund-for-allies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/673147\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ordered to address fraud claims in IRS case that led to \u2018slush fund\u2019 for allies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A federal judge ordered US President Donald Trump to respond to \u201cgrievous allegations\u201d that his deal with the government to create a US$1.8 billion fund to resolve his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was the result of a \u201cfraud\u201d on the court.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In an order on Friday, US District Judge Kathleen Williams gave the president\u2019s personal lawyers until June 12 to respond to a request by a group of former federal judges that she reopen the proceedings to investigate conduct by the president and the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Williams had closed the case after Trump\u2019s lawyers notified her they were dropping his claims seeking to hold the IRS liable for a past leak of his tax information.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the same time, the Justice Department announced that in exchange for Trump ending the case, it would create a US$1.776 billion fund to benefit what officials described as victims of \u201cweaponisation\u201d by the government.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Opponents have slammed the arrangement as a \u201cslush fund\u201d for Trump\u2019s allies and supporters. The deal also includes a bar on investigations into Trump\u2019s past tax returns.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Internal Revenue Service Building is seen in Washington in February 2025. Photo: TNS\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d3d26f55-e8aa-4d08-8791-41fd147bdac5_64f10534.jpg\" title=\"The Internal Revenue Service Building is seen in Washington in February 2025. Photo: TNS\"\/>The Internal Revenue Service Building is seen in Washington in February 2025. Photo: TNS<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Earlier on Friday, a federal judge in Virginia temporarily barred the Trump administration from operating the \u201canti-weaponisation fund\u201d while she weighed a longer-term block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge ordered US President Donald Trump to respond to \u201cgrievous allegations\u201d that his deal with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,293618,24836,6884,293620,77635,69637,16675,3,293619,293617,116294,3479,293621,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-673147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-anti-weaaponization-farm","tag-doj","tag-fraud","tag-grievous-allegations","tag-irs","tag-judge-kathleen-williams","tag-justice-department","tag-news","tag-reopen-case","tag-slush-fund","tag-todd-blanche","tag-trump","tag-trump-taxes","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}