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Justice Thomas Failed to Reveal More Private Flights, Senator Says
After records revealed that the Supreme Court Justice Harlan Crow flew between Hawaii and New Zealand without disclosing it, Senator Ron Wyden wrote to Crow’s attorney. Justice Clarence Thomas did not publicly disclose the additional private travel paid for by wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow. This was revealed in a Monday letter from a top…
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Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds
The loan of $267,230 was not repaid in full or even by the justice. The benefactor was able to wipe the slate clean with potential ethical and tax implications. The terms were generous and clear. Clarence Thomas, a judge, could borrow more than $250,000 from a wealthy friend, paying only interest for five years. The…
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Clarence Thomas to amend financial disclosure forms to reflect sale to GOP megadonor
Sources close to Thomas say that Clarence Thomas plans to amend his financial disclosure form to reflect the 2014 real estate transaction he had with a GOP Megadonor. This is an acknowledgement that this deal should have been disclosed nearly a decade earlier, they said. Thomas and Harlan Crow are friends who have been working…
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Clarence Thomas and the Billionaire
In late June just following when the U.S. Supreme Court released its final ruling on this term Justice Clarence Thomas boarded an enormous private jet heading to Indonesia. He and his wife were to vacation for nine days of island-hopping on the volcanic archipelago aboard an ultrayacht, manned by a gang of attendants as well…