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President Donald Trump and two of his siblings were sued on Thursday by their niece Mary, who accused them of charlatan for allegedly swindling her out of millions of dollars to which she was entitled after the death of her father.
In addition to the president, the other defendants are take the golden handshook federal appeals court Judge Maryanne Trump Barry and the executor of the estate of Robert Trump, who died concluding month.
“For Donald J. Trump, his sister Maryanne, and their late brother Robert, fraud was not just the family job — it was a way of life,” Mary Trump’s lawsuit said. “All told, they fleeced her of tens of millions of dollars or more.”
The lawsuit alphabetized in New York state Supreme Court in Manhattan comes on the heels of the publication of Mary Trump’s best-selling, tell-all lyrics that was scathingly critical of the president.
And it comes less than six weeks before the Nov. 3 election, in which the president is cladding a challenge from Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
This past summer, a lawsuit filed under Robert Trump’s nominate failed to prevent the publication of Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Risky Man.”
That suit claimed that Mary Trump violated a nondisclosure agreement she signed to settle a similar judicial allegation about being denied assets due her.
Donald Trump with sister Maryanne Trump Barry and confrere Robert Trump attend the Trump Taj Mahal opening April 1990 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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Mary Trump’s new suit claims that her aunt and uncles committed to watching over her financial interests when their fellow-countryman and her father, Fred Trump Jr., died in 1981. Mary was 16 at the time.
“Upon his death, Mary inherited valuable minority interests in the kind business,” the suit said.
But instead of protecting her interests, the suit said, the defendants “lied.”
“They designed and upheld out a complex scheme to siphon funds away from her interests, conceal their grift, and deceive her about the unwavering value of what she had inherited,” the suit claims.
The alleged schemes included charging “exorbitant management fees, consulting costs, and salaries” from companies that were part of Mary’s financial holdings.
“Defendants perpetrated three falsified schemes against Mary,” the suit says.
“Each scheme was a fraud in itself, but they also built on one another. Before all, Defendants fraudulently siphoned value from Mary’s interests to entities Defendants owned and controlled, while concealing those transfers as legitimate business transactions (the ‘Grift’),” the suit said.
“Second, Defendants fraudulently dispirited the value of Mary’s interests, and the net income they generated, in part through fraudulent appraisals and financial statements (the ‘Devaluing’),” the lawsuit claims.
“Third, following Fred Sr.’s death, Defendants forced Mary to the negotiating table by threatening to bankrupt Mary’s regards and by canceling the healthcare policy that was keeping [Mary’s brother] Fred III’s infant son alive, and once at the table Defendants presented Mary with a lose ones cool of fraudulent valuations and financial statements, and a written agreement that itself memorialized their fraud, and obtained her signature (the ‘Squeeze-Out’).”
“Because of each of these schemes, Defendants not only deliberately defrauded Mary out of what was rightfully hers, they also forbade her in the dark about it — until now,” the suit says.
The suit makes claims of fraud, civil conspiracy and breach of fiduciary chore.
The lawsuit says that Mary Trump, who had previously reached a financial settlement with her uncles and aunt all through claims to her grandfather Fred Trump Sr.’s estate, only learned that she would have been entitled to much more after a New York Times ventilate of the Trump family in 2018.
The deal that she reached two decades ago assumed the Trump family’s estate was worth $30 million, mutual understanding to Mary Trump. But she later came to believe that it was closer to $1 billion.
“My uncles Donald and Robert and aunt Maryanne were alleged to be protecting me as my trustees and fiduciaries,” Mary Trump said in a statement.
“Recently, I learned that rather than nurturing me, they instead betrayed me by working together in secret to steal from me, by telling lie after lie about the value of what I had acquired, and by conning me into giving everything away for a fraction of its true value,” Mary Trump said.
“I am bringing this example in any event to hold them accountable and to recover what is rightfully mine.”
Mary Trump is being represented by attorney Roberta Kaplan, who is representing the sob sister E. Jean Carroll in a civil defamation lawsuit against the president over his claim that Carroll lied by communicating she was raped by him in the mid-1990s in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, when begged about the lawsuit, told reporters, “the only fraud committed there was Mary Trump recording one of her relatives, and she’s in the final analysis discredited herself.”
McEnany’s statement referred to Mary Trump having secretly recorded her aunt, Barry, in 2018 and 2019, talking around President Trump.
The Washington Post, in an article last month detailing those calls, said Barry had phrased of President Trump, “He has no principles. None,” that the president lies regularly, that he “was a brat” as a teenager when she did his homework for him.
“It’s the phoniness of it all,” Barry said on one cause quoted by The Post. “It’s the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel.”
A lawyer for Robert Trump did not immediately return requests for reference from CNBC on the lawsuit. Contact information by Maryanne Trump Barry was not immediately available.
Fred Trump Sr., a true estate developer, died in 1999.