Court says Trump owes New York Times nearly $400K in legal fees
by Filip Timotija - 01/12/24 4:00 PM ETA New York judge ruled on Friday that former President Donald Trump owes The New York Times nearly $400,000 in legal fees over his lawsuit targeting the paper that the same judge tossed last year.
New York Supreme Court Justice Robert Reed said in an order released Friday that the former president has to pay the Times and three of its reporters $392,638.69 for legal fees connected with the lawsuit he brought against them and his niece, Mary Trump, in 2021.
Reed ordered that the Times and reporters Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner receive $229,921 and reporter David Barstow receive $162,717.69.
Trump’s lawsuit, which Reed dismissed last May, accused the Times reporters and his niece of engaging in a plot to obtain confidential tax records the journalists used for a 2018 article on the former president’s “suspect tax schemes.”
In the lawsuit, Trump claimed the reporters were liable since they allegedly encouraged his niece to give them the confidential tax documents. The former president alleged that his niece breached confidentiality provisions dating back to a previous settlement between Trump and herself in providing them with the documents.
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4405833-court-says-trump-owes-new-york-times-nearly-400k-in-legal-fees/
