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Another document dump in 2017 held “more than 100,000 pages of documents” from the president’s late father Fred Trump’s Empire, “including his tax returns, financial statements, general ledgers and all his bank accounts,” Craig said.

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“We were able to piece together the fraud that we saw, so it was really an evolution. And just writing that at 14,000 words, it’s one of the longest investigative stories that the Times has ever run,” she said.

The team was awarded $15,000 on Monday for their work uncovering Trump’s finances. Included in the winning pieces were revelations the president was “a central player” in “dubious schemes” associated with the Trump fortune, the Times reported.

“There’s a guy in the White House who won’t release information about his finances, and he has lied about them and he’s deceived people about them,” she said. “So it’s important that we set the record straight and understand the origins of his wealth.”

Craig, who is the sister-in-law of Calgary City Coun. Ward Sutherland, studied political science at the University of Calgary.

Craig wrote for her campus newspaper, The Gauntlet, calling her years at the paper a “transformational” time in her life.

An internship at the Calgary Herald in 1990 led to subsequent work at the Windsor Star, The Globe and Mail and The Wall Street Journal before landing at the Times nearly a decade ago.

Craig was previously nominated for a Pulitzer as part of a team covering the fall of Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis in 2008.

She will also be awarded an honorary degree from the U of C on June 5 to add to her political science diploma.

Because she was already working at the Windsor Star at the time, Craig says she couldn’t attend her first U of C graduation.

“I got a job right away and I couldn’t come home. . . . It was one of those things where I couldn’t afford it and I was afraid to ask for the time off,” she said. “It was a really hard decision and I regretted it, so I’m happy to be able to attend a convocation.”

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