Red Mosquito

JuanHamm wrote:

96583UP wrote:soooooo we did do phase 3 after all

and 4 apparently

wtf

We need more transparency regarding phases. This is getting out of control.

In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was “raising him as a son.”

Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.

The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s tuition the entire time he was a student there.

Before and after his time at Hidden Lake, Martin attended a second boarding school, Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. “Harlan said he was paying for the tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy as well,” Grimwood said, recalling a conversation he had with Crow during a visit to the billionaire’s Adirondacks estate.

Thomas did not report the tuition payments from Crow on his annual financial disclosures. Several years earlier, Thomas disclosed a gift of $5,000 for Martin’s education from another friend. It is not clear why he reported that payment but not Crow’s.

“Harlan Crow has long been passionate about the importance of quality education and giving back to those less fortunate, especially at-risk youth,” the statement said. “It’s disappointing that those with partisan political interests would try to turn helping at-risk youth with tuition assistance into something nefarious or political.” The statement added that Crow and his wife have “supported many young Americans” at a “variety of schools, including his alma mater.” Crow went to Randolph-Macon Academy.

Peeps wrote:they are saying since it was his nephew that he didnt need to report it due to the way the law is written

BurtReynolds wrote:I think this guy might be dirty.

wease wrote:If only we'd had a hint of his unethical behavior before he was sworn onto the Court!

96583UP wrote:definitely considered a bribe in-kind in any other industry

Bi_3 wrote:

96583UP wrote:definitely considered a bribe in-kind in any other industry

Would it make a difference if he had disclosed it?

B wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

96583UP wrote:definitely considered a bribe in-kind in any other industry

Would it make a difference if he had disclosed it?

Sure. He's currently a corrupt liar. If he'd disclosed it, he'd just be plain corrupt.

Bi_3 wrote:

96583UP wrote:definitely considered a bribe in-kind in any other industry

Would it make a difference if he had disclosed it?

Bi_3 wrote:

B wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

96583UP wrote:definitely considered a bribe in-kind in any other industry

Would it make a difference if he had disclosed it?

Sure. He's currently a corrupt liar. If he'd disclosed it, he'd just be plain corrupt.

What actions pushed him over the line into being corrupt?