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By Reuters 
11h ago
by Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK – Mary Trump, Donald Trump’s niece, sued the US president on Thursday, accusing him and other family members of defrauding her out of tens of millions of dollars from an inheritance.
The complaint filed in a New York state court in Manhattan against Donald Trump, his sister Maryanne Trump Barry and the estate of his brother Robert Trump, who died in August, charged the defendants with “wanton fraud” and conspiracy.
Jay Sekulow, Trump’s attorney, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. An attorney who had represented Robert Trump did not immediately respond to a similar request. Trump Barry could not immediately be reached for comment.
The complaint describes some of the accusations Mary Trump made in her recent book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Most Dangerous Man in the World.”
Mary Trump accused the president and the other defendants of acting to “squeeze” her as they maneuvered to seize control of property from her grandfather Fred Trump, the father of Donald Trump, who died in 1999.
“Fraud was not just a family business, it was a way of life,” the complaint said.
In a statement provided by her attorney, Mary Trump said the defendants “betrayed me by secretly working together to rob me, by telling lie after lie about the value of what I had inherited, and by tricking me into giving everything for a fraction. of its real value. “
Reuters
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