#Clarence Thomas biographer calls report on megadonor’s tuition payments ‘despicable’

#Clarence Thomas biographer calls report on megadonor’s tuition payments ‘despicable’

A biographer and friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas slammed reporting of a GOP megadonor’s tuition payments for the justice’s great-nephew as “despicable,” arguing that it did not violate the court’s gift disclosure rules.  Mark Paoletta, a former counsel to former Vice President Pence who co-edited a book about Thomas based on a documentary,…

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#GOP megadonor covered tuition for child Clarence Thomas was raising ‘as a son’: report

#GOP megadonor covered tuition for child Clarence Thomas was raising ‘as a son’: report

Billionaire and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow paid for the private school tuition of Justice Clarence Thomas’s great-nephew, whom the justice said he raised “as a son,” according to reporting by ProPublica. Thomas’s relative, Mark Martin, attended boarding schools Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia as well as Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. Tuition at Hidden Lake was…

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