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The original was posted on /r/worldnews by /u/Massive-Geologist312 on 2024-07-11 19:46:07+00:00.
Wow, they’re really pulling out all the stops to go after Thomas. Are they serious with this? He took a boat ride and a chopper ride and they’re trying to call it gifts? Lol, if that’s the case I don’t think any politician will survive. Next they’re going to be crying about car rides
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Two Democratic senators have accused Justice Clarence Thomas of accepting a free trip to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hometown.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon filed a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland on July 3, asking to open an investigation into the Supreme Court judge.
The letter said there was a “serious possibility of tax fraud” and accused Thomas of having “secretly accepted gifts and income potentially worth millions of dollars.”
The report said that apart from the Russia trip, Crow also funded Thomas’ grandnephew Mark Martin’s boarding-school fees, which cost “more than $6,000 a month.”
In their letter, the senators wrote that other gifts from Crow included “multiple instances of free private jet travel, yacht travel, and lodging,” as well as “gifts of tuition for Justice Thomas’s grandnephew,” “real estate transactions,” “home renovations,” and “free rent for Justice Thomas’s mother.”
“Justice Thomas and Alito’s repeated failure over decades to disclose that they received millions of dollars in gifts from individuals with business before the court is explicitly against the law,” her statement reads.
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