Russ Buettner
Russ Buettner is an American
Buettner graduated from California State University, Sacramento, where he wrote for the student newspaper, The State Hornet. He subsequently attended the Missouri School of Journalism. Since 1992 he has reported from the New York City area.[2]
Before joining the Times in 2006 he worked at
In June 2016 he and a colleague wrote a widely cited report about Trump's bankrupt Atlantic City casinos, saying that Trump put very little of his own money into those enterprises while collecting millions of dollars in salary, bonuses, and other payments.[6]
In 2018 Buettner and colleagues reported that despite Trump's claims to be a self-made billionaire, he had actually received more than $400 million (in 2018 dollars) from his father
In September 2020 the Times team acquired more than two decades' worth of Trump's tax records, including the first two years of his presidency. Their reporting showed that he paid no federal income taxes in ten out of the preceding fifteen years, and only $750 in each of two other years. They described "struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due."[9]
References
- ^ a b "David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times". Pulitzer.org. 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- ^ Byers, Ashton (April 15, 2019). "Sac State alumnus receives Pulitzer for investigating Trump's finances". The State Hornet. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- ^ Farhi, Paul (October 3, 2016). "Who gave Trump's taxes to the New York Times? The mystery behind a bombshell story". Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ Barstow, David; Craig, Susanne; Buettner, Ross; Twohey, Megan (October 1, 2016). "Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ "Russ Buettner". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- ^ Sidhu, Ranbir (February 2, 2018). "Excerpt from Hacking Trump". TNB Nonfiction. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ Buettner, Ross; Craig, Susanne; Barstow, David (October 2, 2018). "11 Takeaways From The Times's Investigation Into Trump's Wealth". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ Polk, Eileen (February 19, 2019). "New York Times Wins Two George Polk Awards". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- ^ Buettner, Russ; Craig, Susanne; McIntire, Mike (September 27, 2020). "Long-Concealed Records Show Trump's Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 27, 2020. Retrieved September 27, 2020.