Clarence Thomas never repaid a millionaire friend’s $267,000 loan which the Supreme Court justice used to buy a 40-foot luxury motorcoach, Senate investigators announced Wednesday.
Healthcare magnate Anthony Welters told the Senate Finance Committee he forgave the RV loan after five years of receiving payments on the interest but not the principal, the report states.
“Now we know that Justice Thomas had up to $267,230 in debt forgiven and never reported it on his ethics forms,” Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, (D-OR) said in a statement.
Wyden called on Thomas to specify exactly how much of the debt he paid and whether the loan was reported on tax returns.
Fucking. Indict. Thomas.
Both of them.
At this point polls suggest 15% of Americans believe in the legitimacy of the US Supreme Court.
It keeps Roberts awake at night but otherwise so far it hasn’t done much to curb their campaign to dismantle human rights.
When you regularly receive so many “”“loans”“” and lavish 6 figure vacations from “”“friends”“”, you can’t be expected to remember to officially report all of them, completely understandable
Ah… the venerable old “make a ‘loan’ then forgive it” strategy for paying bribes.
At this point Thomas might as well have a tattoo across his forehead that says “I am corrupt.”
If he had even a speck of integrity, he’d resign.
267K seems like such an impossibly high number that I can’t even comprehend ever having that much in dollars. For these asshole that’s just bribe money, pissed away on an RV he likely used once. And at that price it’s likely one of the nicest RV’s anyone’s ever seen.
He used it quite a bit. He put on this Everyman schtick where he didn’t need fancy trips, he just needed to RV and camp in Walmart parking lots
The articles on it are quite hilarious to read now that we know actually he was going on lavish free trips plenty and that RV was a tremendous bribe
If it makes you feel any better, that was $267k in the late 1990s. Value in today’s money is closer to half a million.
Yeah that doesn’t make me feel better either.
I hope you’re joking.
Even if you made $300k a year (which is 5 times the national average), you probably wouldn’t have $267k left after a year of housing, utilities, living expenses, taxes, transportation, healthcare, etc. Cost of living in the US is terrible.
This just in: Clarence Thomas is a joke of a human being, even moreso as a justice. Nothing will be done. Happy Thursday.
Justice is not a term I would associate with that man it’s so weird it’s allowed to be his title. We should take it away from him already because he is disgracing the highest court. How are there no laws against that? And since there are none people will need to take action in some other way. That’s asking for trouble. What the hell kind of system is this?
