I don’t know whether Donald Trump was screwing around on his income taxes like The New York Times alleges or not.

But a very good source tells me that Trump’s purchases at places like Tiffany, Van Cleef & Arpels and Bulgari were scrutinized as part of a widespread New York state sales tax investigation in the 1980s.

And the investigators found that Trump did nothing wrong.

It seems that a lot of rich folks then were having their purchases shipped to states with lower sales taxes. And a number of them ended up having to pay the tax and a penalty to make New York happy. (I’d like to give you names, but a confidentiality agreement was part of the deal.)

My source, who was part of the investigation, says that Trump actually paid all the sales tax he owed.