SOURCE: The New York Daily News Also Got Trump’s 1995 Tax Return But They Couldn’t Vet Its Authenticity

CNN Money reports:

The New York Times wasn’t the only news outlet to receive documents from Donald Trump’s tax returns. But they were the only ones to successfully vet them. Around September 23, the day a manila envelope with a Trump Organization return address showed up in the mailbox of Times Metro reporter Susanne Craig, a similar envelope arrived in the inbox of New York Daily News editor-in-chief Jim Rich.

Both envelopes contained three pages from Trump’s 1995 income tax returns, which showed that the Republican presidential nominee had declared a $916 million loss that may have enabled him to avoid paying any federal income taxes for 18 years.

The Times immediately set about vetting the documents and hired tax experts to analyze them. Craig brought in her reporting partner David Barstow, a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, as well as colleagues Megan Twohey and Russ Buettner. But a source at the Daily News told CNNMoney that their paper was unsuccessful in locating a tax expert who could verify the documents.