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French IT company Capgemini plans to sell its US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, whose contract with the US ICE drew scrutiny from French lawmakers (Sybille de La Hamaide/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/french-tech-compa…

Energy in the new Dutch coalition agreement.
1. Highest priority for electricity grid congestion. Better use of capacity by incentives in grid fees, flex contracts, and energy hubs. A crisis-law grid congestion to accelerate permitting procedures for grid expansion.

Donald Trump sued the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday
for the unauthorized leak of his tax returns during his first term,
♦️demanding that the government agency pay him at least $10 billion.
Trump, as well as his two eldest sons and his family business, charged in the lawsuit that the I.R.S. and the Treasury Department had failed to prevent a former I.R.S. contractor, #Charles

Trump Sues I.R.S. Over Tax Data Leak, Demanding $10 Billion
The president charged that the I.R.S. and the Treasury Department had failed to prevent a former I.R.S. contractor from gaining access to documents shared with news outlets.

Fat Putin charged that the I.R.S. and the Treasury Department had failed to prevent a former I.R.S. contractor from gaining access to documents shared with news outlets.
☑️ NYTimes: Trump Sues I.R.S. Over Tax Data Leak, Demanding $10 Billion https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/…

Trump Sues I.R.S. Over Tax Data Leak, Demanding $10 Billion
The president charged that the I.R.S. and the Treasury Department had failed to prevent a former I.R.S. contractor from gaining access to documents shared with news outlets.

Remember those two pentesters who got arrested for breaking into a Dallas County Courthouse in Iowa, even though they were operating under a contract from the state's judiciary to do so? They just settled with the state for $600,000. It took six years, though.
https://www.kcci.co…

Uh, El Cheato is suing the Federal government - over which he is in charge of the defense.
To which you should be thinking: "What defense?"
In other words, he is using the court system to give himself $10,000,000,000 dollars.
"Trump sues the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over leaked tax records"

Trump sues IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over leaked tax records
The president argued in the lawsuit that the agencies failed to prevent a former contractor from leaking his tax returns from nearly a decade ago to news outlets.

"US law enforcement has been investigating allegations by former Meta Platforms Inc. contractors that Meta personnel can access WhatsApp messages, despite the company’s statements that the chat service is private and encrypted"
https://www.bloomberg…

A jury has found Edo, a TV ad measurement company, liable for breach of contract and says Edo must pay $18.3M in damages to rival iSpot; Edo plans to appeal (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/edward-norton-ad-tech-fir…

Edward Norton-Backed Ad Tech Firm EDO Found Liable For Contract Breach; Jury Awards Rival ISpot $18.3M For Improperly Obtained Data
EDO, an ad tech firm co-founded by actor and filmmaker Edward Norton, has been found liable for theft and breach of contract by a federal jury in L.A.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and his immediate family dumped seven-figures’ worth of stock in August — including shares of several defense contractors — to comply with federal conflicts of interest rules and laws, according to a new government ethics document.
Miller and his wife, Katie Miller, who served as an adviser for DOGE before leaving the White House in May, jettisoned shares of Amazon (up to $515,000), Palantir Technologies Inc. (up to $250,000), GE Aerospa…

Stephen Miller Dumps Defense Contractor Stocks to Comply With Ethics Laws
Miller, who serves as White House deputy chief of staff, dumped the stocks in August.

Sources and a memo: the US DOJ is using a novel reading of a federal anti-fraud law to probe contractors, including Google and Verizon, over their DEI programs (Lydia Wheeler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-doj-dei-fraud-investig…