Clarence Thomas accepted luxury gifts from GOP megadonor for decades without disclosing them: report

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The investigation comes as the nation's high court fends off requests for a code of ethics, which would likely address similar instances.

Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly accepted gifts from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow, including trips on a superyacht and to a private resort in New York.Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted luxury gifts from a prominent Republican donor for more than 20 years

Thomas has accepted lavish gifts from the billionaire Dallas businessman nearly every year, which had included vacations on Crow’s superyacht and trips on the billionaire’s Bombardier Global 5000 jet as well as a week each summer at Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks, ProPublica reported, citing flight records, internal documents and interviews with Crow’s employees.

Crow, in his statement, also emphasized that he has never asked Thomas about any pending or lower court case, nor has Thomas discussed one, adding that “we have never sought to influence Justice Thomas on any legal or political issue”Renewed calls for code of ethics Whitehouse, a lawyer and former top federal prosecutor, is a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees Supreme Court nominations.

 

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This just in, BREAKING: People in D.C. have millionaire friends.

Why won’t the Supreme Court accept a code of ethics…no more free stuff.

I suggest you investigate this a little more. Your story seems to be slightly biased.

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