Mary Trump Sues the President and His Siblings for Fraud inheritance

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The president’s niece Mary Trump sued her commander in chief uncle and his siblings, accusing them in a blistering complaint on Thursday morning of fraudulently cheating her out of her inheritance.

The 52-page complaint states that, for Donald J. Trump, his sister Maryanne and their late brother Robert fraud was not just the family business, it was a way of life. They concocted scheme after scheme to cheat on their taxes, swindle their business partners, and jack up rents on their low-income tenants.

Mary Trump has made these allegations before in her tell all book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man as well as in litigation where the family fought unsuccessfully to block that book’s release. This is the first time that Mary Trump has leveled the claims in a lawsuit to collect damages. She sued her living uncle, late uncle and her aunt, Donald Trump, the estate of Robert S. Trump and Maryanne Trump Barry in their personal capacities.

Mary Trump said in a statement, my father died when I was still a teenager, and my uncles Donald and Robert and aunt Maryanne were supposed to be protecting me as my trustees and fiduciaries. Recently, I learned that rather than protecting 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 inherited and by conning me into giving everything away for a fraction of its true value. I am bringing this case to hold them accountable and to recover what is rightfully mine.

Mary Trump says she learned about her relatives alleged misconduct through a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times investigation accusing the president of making his fortune through complicated tax schemes.

Reporters said, the records they obtained dispelled President Trump’s fictional portrait of himself as a self-made man.

She says that her relatives then presented her with fraudulent valuations of a so called settlement agreement and forced her to sign. All told, they fleeced her of tens of millions of dollars or more, the complaint states. The lawsuit seeks at least $500,000 in compensatory damages and unspecified punitive damages.

Alleging eight counts of fraud, conspiracy, breach of fiduciary duty and other violations, Mary Trump is represented by Roberta Kaplan, a partner at Kaplan Hecker & Fink who also represents one of Trump’s rape accusers, E. Jean Carroll.

Kaplan said in a statement, we are proud to represent Mary Trump in this effort to obtain justice for the outright fraud committed against her by her own family members.