Multibillionaire Ken Griffin filed a lawsuit against the IRS Tuesday alleging the agency violated his right to privacy after investigative journalism outlet ProPublica reported in April on the tax records of the Republican megadonor and former Chicagoan.
Griffin’s income and taxes were reported by ProPublica alongside similar information for hundreds of America’s wealthiest people. The outlet has said it does not know who shared the tax information with them and did not solicit the documents it received.
Griffin, who founded the hedge fund Citadel, demanded a jury trial in his lawsuit. He claimed the tax agency is responsible for the “unlawful disclosure” of his tax returns because of its “willful and intentional failure” to set up safeguards to its records system, court records filed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida show.
