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Missing context: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been friends with Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow for 27 years. Crow said that he and his wife have b
by niceice 3y ago
Missing context:
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been friends with Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow for 27 years. Crow said that he and his wife have been friends with Thomas and his wife Ginni since 1996.
Is there proof they were bribes as opposed to the innocent explanation that they are just family friends, and it's not unusual for billionaires to offer a free ride to their non-billionaire friends on vacation?
- HDThoreaun 3y agoThomas joined the court in 1991, so I'm not sure that the 1996 friendship date helps him much.
- kurthr 3y agoGiving and forgiving a $200k loan, buying his mom's house (while still allowing her to live there free for over a decade), and paying for his kid's private schooling while you have cases in front of a justice has the appearance of impropriety.
- Arrath 3y agoMy corpo policy doesn't even allow me to accept $20 of gifts from friends or acquaintances if there is also a sniff of business relationship there as well. The goings on between the Justice and his friend sure don't smell right, to me.
- hotnfresh 3y agoThe pertinent questions are, what are norms for this kind of thing in the rest of the federal court system, and is Thomas’ behavior in the same universe as those? The answers are “you turn down gifts of far, far less, from much less-risky associates” and “not in the same multiverse, even”.