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Donald Trump sues NY Times, his niece for uncovered tax documents Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday against his niece Mary Trump and the New York Times stemming from explosive news articles about the former president’s taxes and finances. Trump is seeking no less than $100 million in damages, accusing Mary of breaking a non-disclosure agreement by leaking his personal tax documents to the Times. “The defendants engaged in an insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly-sensitive records which they exploited for their own benefit and utilized as a means of falsely legitimizing their publicized works,” Trump attorney Alina Habba...

Former President Trump filed a lawsuit against his niece, Mary Trump, as well as The New York Times and three of its reporters, alleging an "insidious plot" to obtain and publish his tax records. The journalists convinced Mary Trump "to smuggle the records out of her attorney's office and turn them over to The Times," the lawsuit claims. It seeks an award of at least $100 million, an amount which Trump's lawsuit alleges he sustained in damages as a result of the Times' actions. Mary Trump revealed in her own book that she had provided documents to the Times. Former...

Former President Donald Trump filed a $100 million lawsuit against his estranged niece Mary Trump and The New York Times, alleging they engaged in "an insidious plot" to obtain his tax returns for the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of his finances. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Dutchess County, New York, says that New York Times reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow, and Russ Buettner conducted "an extensive crusade to obtain Donald J. Trump's confidential tax records." "The defendants engaged in an insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly-sensitive records which they exploited for their own benefit and utilized as a means...

--snip-- Obscured in his ascent, however, has been his troubling financial past, which continues to shadow his present. Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills. Records reviewed by The New York Times show more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and his for-profit businesses.