Column: What Clarence Thomas calls hospitality looks a lot more like corruption (via latimesopinion )
to Liberty Central, the conservative political advocacy group she founded and from which she drew an annual salary of $120,000.
On the “personal hospitality” front, Crow has paid for the Thomases to take opulent international trips on his private jets and super yacht. As far back as 1997, he whisked the justice to the all-male bacchanal of elites known as the Bohemian Grove, in the redwoods north of San Francisco. And as recently as 2019, the Thomases flew to Indonesia on Crow’s jet for nine days of island hopping aboard his 162-foot yacht, the Michaela Rose.
The unavoidable conclusion: Crow has spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars underwriting a lifestyle for the Thomases that is unthinkable on the $285,000 annual salary of a Supreme Court justice. Though there seems to have been some wiggle room in reporting requirements about such things as accommodations and meals, Thomas is required by law to report all the fancy travel . Yet he opted to keep it private, claiming he was told such reporting was unnecessary. Failing to report such gifts is wrong. Thomas must be held to account.
Those gifts, once disclosed, were on the up and up, but it didn’t look good. After The Times broke that story in 2004, however, Thomas didn’t stop accepting gifts.
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