According to another bombshell report by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative outfit, Justice Clarence Thomas sold a string of properties to real estate billionaire Harlan Crow. Sold in 2014, these properties were located in Savannah, Georgia, and included an old single-story home and two vacant lots down the road.
Crow’s company paid a total of $133,363 for all the properties per the state tax documents and a deed dated October 15, 2014, which was filed at the Chatham County courthouse.
The payment was made to three joint owners, Justice Thomas Clarence, his elderly mother, and the family of the justice’s later brother.
A federal disclosure law required the justices of the Supreme Court and other administrative officials of the court to disclose the details of real estate sales over $1,000.
Last week ProPublica dropped a massive scoop revealing that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas had been secretly receiving luxury gifts from Republican Megadonor billionaire Harlan Crow for more than two decades without ever disclosing them, ProPublica reported on Thursday.
Justices of the Supreme Court, Congressmen, and judges are required by law to report most gifts given to them
Justice Thomas tookluxury trips over the last couple of decades to multiple destinations around the globe, all of which were funded by the billionaire Harlan Crow. The trips include all expenses paid for private jet rides, superyacht trips, and other opulent escapades. A luxury trip to Bali, Indonesia, which included travel through a private jet in 2019, taken along with Justice’s wife, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, would have cost the couple upwards of $500,000 if only they had paid for it themselves.
Justice Clarence Thomas responded to the allegations saying that he was told by his advisors he was not required by law to declare gifts received from his friends.
