Former US President Donald Trump was ordered on Friday to pay $392,638 in legal fees to The New York Times and journalists at the daily after his lawsuit against them was dismissed.
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Donald Trump filed a complaint against The New York Times in September 2021, accusing three of the newspaper's journalists of an “insidious conspiracy” to obtain his tax records.
They published a study in 2018 that won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize.
In May 2023, a judge on the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court dismissed the real estate mogul's case and ordered him to pay costs.
In a new ruling on Friday, this judge found the amount of legal fees estimated by The New York Times to be “reasonable” and ordered Donald Trump to reimburse them in full at that amount.
The investigation revealed how the former promoter, who claims to have made it on his own, built his fortune. She asserted that Donald Trump actually received the current equivalent of $413 million from his father over several years, some of which was transferred through a shell company in order to avoid taxes.