By EFE
A federal judge in Miami ordered the president’s lawyers donald trump and his family respond to fraud allegations related to an agreement reached with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which gave life to a million-dollar fund for its allies, which was suspended today in another judicial decision.
The magistrate Kathleen Williams gave until June 12 for the parties to explain why the agreement constitutes a legitimate way to resolve the claim and not a misuse of the court system.
Williams noted that filing a “frivolous” lawsuit for the sole purpose of forcing a settlement could be considered an “improper purpose,” referring to the lawsuit filed by the Trump family in early 2026 due to the leak of his tax returns from past years in some local media.
The order was issued after a group of retired federal judges asked to reopen the case, alleging that the parties hid from the court the real terms of the agreement reached between the family Trump and the Government.
Previously, a federal judge in Virginia, Leonie Brinkema temporarily suspended the fund of almost 1.8 billion dollars that the United States Government announced on May 19 to compensate allies of President Donald Trump who were subject, it claims, to persecution by the Government of Joe Biden.
The order, consulted by EFE, establishes that The Administration cannot take any measure “relative to the creation or operation of the Anti-Instrumentalization Fund”, which includes the “transfer of money”, “consideration of any claim submitted” to it and the “disbursement of any funds”.
Brinkema considers that this blockade aims to “ensure that funds are not disbursed irreversibly while the motion of the plaintiffs is pending,” who have denounced the creation of this public financing.
Democratic congressmen and a growing number of Republicans are trying impose limits so that public money does not end up benefiting political allies or Trump donors.
The Department of Justice detailed that, as part of that agreement, the president, his children Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and their company, the Trump Organization, will receive “a formal apology, but not financial compensation or compensation of any kind.”
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