Which means that Todd Blanche didn't even resist the lawsuit.
They never filed an answer (which Trumps other lawyers gave Blanche a 90 day extension on).
And then they withdrew the case (that the judge was about to throw out for lack of standing) before announcing they had a settlement (cart...
It's not negligence to give government contractors access to government information in order to fulfil the contract.
The negligence was on the part of the contractor, who is responsible for the employees they assigned to the IRS.
The cases that don't go to trial go through DISCOVERY, which is when a settlement might be offered.
It's like a poker game where both sides ante up $100. And before a single card is delt, one side settles by just giving the other side $20
They settled a lawsuit that was about to be thrown out of court, for multiple reasons. Standing, statute of limitations, wrong plaintiff. The case had so many flaws, and jailhouse lawyer could get it thrown out.
Don't they have newspapers where you live.
The illegal settlement Blanche made said there would be a six member board. He would personally pick 5 of them, and congress could pick number six.
So the guy who made the deal, gave himself 80% representation.