TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY/TRUMP TAXES: “President Donald Trump’s older sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, has kept a very low profile since he ran for office. But it appears as though she inadvertently had a central role in The New York Times blockbuster report on her brother’s alleged tax schemes. According to the Times, one of their key findings was a financial disclosure form from Barry’s Senate confirmation proceedings in 1999 to be a federal appellate judge. This financial form was not redacted, and Times reporter Susanne Craig, one of the three reporters who broke the story, noticed an oddity in the filing — a $1 million contribution from a Trump family-owned company called All County Building Supply & Maintenance. Craig, along with reporters David Barstow and Russ Buettner, began to investigate the company…After the company purchased items for Trump buildings such as cleaning supplies, the Times notes that a secretary would bill these ‘items to Fred Trump’s buildings with a 20% to 50% markup,’ and the siblings would ‘pocket the difference.’ The siblings received millions in untaxed gifts from their father, skirting a 55% tax on gifts over a certain value that would have cut the total significantly, the Times reported.”
–Elizabeth Hartfield, “A financial disclosure from Donald Trump’s sister led to The New York Times report on his taxes,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, October 3, 2018 10:27 pm