And Another Thing

May 28, 2026

I have questions, and they’ve been bugging me since I read the documents related to this whole ugly lawsuit-settlement-fund swindle.

If you file a notice of voluntarily dismissal of your own lawsuit, why would you then file a settlement of that lawsuit on the same day ? OR, considering the reverse: if you file a settlement of your lawsuit, why would you file a notice of dismissal on the same day ?

If the judge who presides over your lawsuit raises the question of whether a case, controversy, or adversarial relationship even exists in the first place, and appoints three lawyers to advise her on the question, how can you file a settlement of the lawsuit before the question has been answered decisively—in fact, two days before the date of the hearing on this question?

If you file the notice of dismissal with prejudice, and the judge accepts it and closes the case, then there is no longer a lawsuit, and the same lawsuit cannot be brought again, correct? So how can you and your former-personal-attorney-now-Acting-AG (can you say “the mother of all conflicts of interest”?) then file a settlement for a case that has been closed and cannot be reopened? No, Acting AG Blanche did not sign the settlement, but he did sign the untitled documents that 1) describe the “anti‑weaponization” fund and 2) protect all the plaintiffs from prosecution for essentially any matters that are pending “or could be pending” as of the effective date of the settlement.

In the order to close the case, the judge states:
Because the Notice does not reference any settlement or include a stipulation of settlement, there is no settlement of record. Additionally, Defendants—federal agencies represented by the Department of Justice, which has an independent obligation to uphold the “public’s strong interest in knowing about the conduct of its Government and expenditure of its resources” and the “fair administration of justice,” 28 C.F.R. §§ 50.9, 50.23—neither submitted any settlement documents nor filed any documents ensuring that settlement was appropriate where there was an outstanding question as to whether an actual case or controversy existed.

Why would you file a notice of dismissal, with no mention of a settlement, if you planned to file a settlement, subsequently or simultaneously?

Could the filing of both a notice of dismissal and a settlement, of the same lawsuit, on the same day, be considered an attempt to deceive the judge or to preempt the judge’s dismissing the lawsuit because there was no case, controversy, or adversarial relationship?

Note that the notice of dismissal contains digital signatures and the following notice by one of the plaintiff’s lawyers:

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I HEREBY CERTIFY that on May 18, 2026, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of the Court using the CM/ECF system, which will send a notice of electronic filing to all counsel of record.

The settlement, on the other hand, appears to be a scanned copy, has handwritten signatures, and does not have the same notice. Does filing electronically vs filing on paper affect the time of day at which the document is considered to be filed? There are dates on the documents that were filed electronically, but no time stamps.

Can a single settlement include more than one case? This settlement was filed under the case number for the lawsuit against the IRS and the Treasury, but also purports to settle “Pending Agency Claims” for the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago and the investigation into allegations that Russia interfered with the presidential election in 2016 on Trump’s behalf.

Can a settlement stipulate compensation to persons who were not parties to the lawsuit?

And last but absolutely not least, in the untitled document of May 19, in the beyond-outrageous paragraph C, does item (3) extend to financial or tax information related to the Epstein files and investigation?

Amici Curiae Memorandum: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.45.0.pdf

Amici Curiae Brief: https://litigationtaskforce.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/litigationandresponse.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/54-1.pdf

Notice of dismissal of Complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.52.0_5.pdf

Judge’s order to close: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172/gov.uscourts.flsd.706172.62.0_4.pdf

Settlement: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28132616/sdfl-settlement-signed.pdf

DOJ press release:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-anti-weaponization-fund

DOJ summary of Fund: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441086/dl

DOJ (untitled) document of May 19: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441216/dl

DOJ Overview of Fund:
https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2026/05/DOJ-Fact-Sheet-May-21-FINAL_v2.pd