If Clarence Thomas thought that promising to do higher with disclosing at any time when a billionaire pal/GOP mega-donor wines and dines him with non-public jet rides and superyacht holidays would quell the requires his impeachment… oops!
Lower than a month after ProPublica published an explosive report in regards to the thousands and thousands of {dollars} of “hospitality” that has been lavished on the Supreme Courtroom Justice and his kooky, QAnon-believin’ spouse Ginny by their shut pals Harlan and Kathy Crow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalism web site has struck once more. On Tuesday, they reported that the Crows’ kindness towards Thomas additionally prolonged to the choose’s grandnephew.
In 2008, Supreme Courtroom Justice Clarence Thomas determined to ship his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a personal boarding college within the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was removed from residence. For the earlier decade, he had lived with the justice and his spouse within the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken authorized custody of Martin when he was 6 years outdated and had not too long ago advised an interviewer he was “elevating him as a son.”
Whereas that was 15 years in the past, not too long ago found paperwork reveal that Martin’s whopping tuition invoice, which value greater than $6,000 monthly, was paid for not by Thomas, however by the corporate owned by Harlan Crow… which appears hella shady.
Whereas the not too long ago uncovered financial institution assertion that exposed this bombshell was for one month solely in 2009, Christopher Grimwood — a former administrator on the stylish college — confirmed to ProPublica that it was Crow, not Thomas, who paid Martin’s tuition all through his complete time on the college.
“Harlan picked up the tab,” said Grimwood, who knew each the Thomases and Crow, and additional claimed that it was Crow who paid Martin’s tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy, one other boarding college, which the teenager attended each previous to and after his time at Hidden Lake Academy.
Thomas didn’t embrace Crow’s tuition funds as a part of his annual monetary disclosure, and even Martin — who’s now in his 30s — was unaware that it was Crow who was footing his academic payments. Although he doesn’t see something nefarious in it.
“I feel his intentions behind every little thing is only a buddy and only a good particular person,” Martin told ProPublica of Crow, who we now know has an enormous assortment of Hitler/Nazi memorabilia.
Mark Paoletta, a longtime buddy of the Thomases who sometimes acts as Ginni’s lawyer, released a statement following the publication of ProPublica’s story, through which he claimed that “Harlan Crow’s tuition funds made immediately to those colleges on behalf of Justice Thomas’s nice nephew didn’t represent a reportable present” as a result of Martin was Thomas’ grandnephew and never the authorized definition of a dependent baby.
“Justice Thomas by no means requested Harlan Crow to pay for his nice nephew’s tuition. And neither Harlan Crow, nor his firm, had any enterprise earlier than the Supreme Courtroom,” Paoletta added. Earlier than ending with:
This malicious story exhibits nothing apart from the truth that the Thomases and the Crows are variety, beneficiant, and loving individuals who tried to assist this younger man.
Beneficiant? That’s one phrase to explain the Crows’ frequent tendency to pay a Supreme Courtroom Justice’s payments. Right here’s hoping Charles Barkley makes more jokes about this shady mess.
(By way of ProPublica)
