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Donald Trump owes The New York Times and three of its reporters nearly $400,000, a judge ruled.The fee decision stems from a 2021 lawsuit Trump filed against the outlet over stories about his taxes. A New York judge dismissed the suit in May 2023 and is ordering Trump to pay the outlet’s legal fees.
Donald Trump owes The New York Times and three of its reporters nearly $400,000 in legal fees stemming from a lawsuit the former president filed against the newspaper which a judge dismissed last year.
Justice Robert R. Reed of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Friday saddled Trump with a $392,638.69 bill, ordering the former president to pay the outlet’s accumulated attorney’s fees and legal expenses.
Trump sued The Times in 2021, accusing the paper and three of its journalists of conspiring with his outspoken niece, Mary Trump, to gain access to his tax records for several stories about the then-president’s finances which were published by the outlet in 2018.
Reed dismissed Trump’s suit in May of 2023. But it wasn’t until this week that Trump was given the exact amount he now owes as a result of the case.
Susanne Craig, one of the Times reporters named in Trump’s original suit, shared the Friday fee decision on X with a thumbs up emoji.
A separate lawsuit Trump filed against his niece related to his taxes is ongoing.
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