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Tuesday, September 5th, 2023

New Filings Reveal More Luxury Trips and Payments to Ginni Thomas

Author:     Anna Massoglia
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     September 4, 2023
 Link: New Filings Reveal More Luxury Trips and Payments to Ginni Thomas
Stephan:  

As I read this story I thought, how will an historian in say the 2080s describe the United States in the year 2023. This is what came to me: In 2023 the United States could be defined as a country in which the leading candidate of one party was a convicted rapist, who had been found guilty of multiple million dollar grifts and scams, with 91 felony indictments pending in four jurisdictions, including for an attempted coup to overthrow the nation’s democracy, and a Supreme Court defined by its utter lack of ethics and its blatant corruption.

Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, conservative activist, insurrectionist, and wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas Credit: Anna Moneymaker / Getty

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reported more trips paid for by Texas billionaire and Republican megadonor Harlan Crow in 2022, according to a newly-filed disclosure detailing the justice’s financial dealings.

The new financial disclosure reveals that Crow — who is described in the new filing as “a longtime friend of filer and his wife” —- paid for Thomas’ travel to speak at a conference in Dallas, which was hosted at a venue owned by Crow’s company in May 2022.

Thomas also reported that Crow paid for another return flight from a separate event in Dallas and a trip to the Adirondacks in New York, where Crow has a private resort that Thomas has reportedly visited every summer for several years.

Notes attached to the financial disclosure indicate that Thomas flew privately on the May 2022 trip due to increased security concerns after a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade was leaked that month.

Crow reportedly treated Thomas and […]

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