As has been surmised by many before me, since no names are provided by the NYT and no evidence presented, we can safely assume the article is nothing but innuendo and fabrication.
The NYT slips even farther into irrelevancy.
If you can ‘Indict a ham sandwich’ as it is often said and they couldn’t indict Trump nor anyone else for that matter, then it follows that Trump must be as innocent as it gets.