I know you've been trying to pretend that Clarence Thomas isn't a bought judge...
...despite the fact that his "friendship" with Harlan Crow post-dates
his appointment to the SC...
...despite the fact that Crow bought property from Thomas...
...renovated it...
...and now let's Thomas's mother live there rent-free.
Well now, it comes out that Crow is paying the private school tuition of Thomas's grandnephew!
'In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his
teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in
the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from
home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and his
wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody
of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer
he was “raising him as a son.”
Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas
did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009,
buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate
Harlan Crow.'
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https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-school-tuition-scotus>
'The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher
Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s
tuition the entire time he was a student there, which was about a year, Grimwood told ProPublica.
“Harlan picked up the tab,” said Grimwood, who got to know Crow and the Thomases and had access to school financial information through his work
as an administrator.
Before and after his time at Hidden Lake, Martin attended a second
boarding school, Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. “Harlan said he was paying for the tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy as well,” Grimwood
said, recalling a conversation he had with Crow during a visit to the billionaire’s Adirondacks estate.'
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