The exact total Harlan Crow paid for Clarence Thomas’ great nephew’s education over the years remains unclear. If he paid for all four years at the two schools, the price tag could have exceeded $150,000, none of which Thomas declared.
, Crow recounted how he first met Thomas. In 1996, the justice was scheduled to give a speech in Dallas for an anti-regulation think tank. Crow offered to fly him there on his private jet. “During that flight, we found out we were kind of simpatico,” the billionaire said.
“Thomas explained that the boy would have the best of everything — his own room, a private school education, lots of extracurricular activities,” journalists Kevin Merida and Michael FletcherThomas gained legal custody of Martin and became his legal guardian around January 1998, according to court records.
That included visits to Camp Topridge, Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks, and two cruises on Crow’s superyacht, Martin said. On a trip in the Caribbean, Martin recalled riding jet skis off the side of the billionaire’s yacht.
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