On Friday, Judge Robert R. Reed of the Supreme Court of the State of New York ordered former President Donald Trump to pay almost $400,000 in legal fees to the New York Times, and co-defendants Mary L. Trump, Susanne Craig, David Barstow, Russell Buettner, and several others. The case was dismissed on May 3rd, 2023, and involved a 2018 investigation by the Times reporters into Trump’s finances.
Trump sued the Times and the reporters over a 2018 investigation into his finances and taxes that was based in part on confidential tax records. The resulting series of articles won a Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in American journalism, in the category of explanatory reporting.
Among those articles was one titled, “Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches from His Father.”
Times spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha, in a statement to CNBC, said the order for…
