Day by day we are seeing more and more favors Thomas received….
BUT?
In a case Jack Smith LOST ….
Just giving favors to government officals IS NOT a crime if there is NO direct benefit earned…..
Billionaire and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow paid for the private school tuition of Justice Clarence Thomas’s great-nephew, whom the justice said he raised “as a son,” according to reporting by ProPublica.
Mark Martin, the Thomas relative identified in the report, attended boarding schools Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia and Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. Tuition at Hidden Lake was more than $6,000 per month, according to the report.
Unrelated court documents revealed a $6,200 wire payment from Crow’s company to the school in July 2009. ProPublica reported that Crow made additional contributions beyond the single one in 2009.
Crow’s office, in a statement, said he and his wife, Kathy, have supported many students by funding scholarships.
“Tuition and other financial assistance is given directly to academic institutions, not to students or to their families,” Crow’s office said. “These scholarships and other contributions have always been paid solely from personal funds, sometimes held at and paid through the family business. It’s disappointing that those with partisan political interests would try to turn helping at-risk youth with tuition assistance into something nefarious or political.”…
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Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-IL) told Steve Scully that he read this morning’s story on Justice Clarence Thomas taking more money from billionaire Harlan Crowe with “a combination of sadness and rage” since the story “is getting worse by the day.”
Update….
Judicial Activist Arranged Payments for Ginni Thomas
“Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work just over a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork,” the Washington Post reports.
“In January 2012, Leo instructed the GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to bill a nonprofit group called the Judicial Education Project and use that money to pay Virginia ‘Ginni’ Thomas, the documents show. The same year, the Judicial Education Project filed a brief to the Supreme Court in a landmark voting rights case.”