Republican megadonor Harlan Crow paid the private boarding school tuition for the grandnephew of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, which ran over $6,000 a month. Thomas did not note the payments on his annual financial disclosures.
he was "raising him as a son."
Tuition at the Georgia boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month, ProPublica reported. Thomas did not note the payments from Crow on his annual financial disclosures. The revelation was the latest involving Thomas and Crow, who paid for lavish trips and private jet travel for the justice and his wife and who purchased three Georgia properties from Thomas and his family − none of which were reported on disclosure forms officials are required to file toIn a statement, Thomas attorney Mark Paoletta said the tuition payment was not reportable because disclosure requirements do not cover nephews.
"This malicious story shows nothing except for the fact that the Thomases and the Crows are kind, generous, and loving people who tried to help this young man," Paoletta said.The latest ProPublica story came as Thomas and the Supreme Court are under heightened scrutiny from Congress and outside groups over ethics concerns. The Senate Judiciary Committeein which Democrats, in particular, slammed the court for a series of recent stories questioning disclosure practices.
But the debate over ethics at the Supreme Court has also become increasingly partisan, and Republican senators at the hearing accused Democrats of highlighting the ethics issues as a way to delegitimatize a court that that handed down severalIn response to the initial ProPublica story about travel, Thomas said he was "advised that this sort of personal hospitality from close personal friends, who did not have business before the court, was not reportable.
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